Hendrix Chords by Wyclef Jean

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[N] _ _ You need to spend [Eb] more time with your son.
What?
They're trying to go get him right now.
I don't want to_
Wait a minute, what are you talking about?
I told you I'm not a scholar. _
Yeah, I'm sure that's him, bro.
I'm sure.
Yo, why is you and me not pulling up on the roof?
You really do.
You know, I'm doing the best I can here.
I'm working two jobs to keep the [E] roof over our heads and [Em] food on the table.
What more do you want from me?
I'm sorry, [N] I'm sorry. _
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_ _ I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. _
[Ebm] _ _ _ [Bb] He needs his father.
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[Gm] I'm doing the best I can.
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[Gm] But _ [Cm] it ain't funny when it means the last thing you need to do.
All he wanted to do was be [Gm] eligible.
_ [Cm] Eligible. _
[F] Eligible.
All he wanted [D] to do was be [Gm] eligible.
Uh huh.
[D] Born till November, he ain't coming [Gm] back.
I was talking about my homies, man that's so cracked.
Caught in the trap, [Cm] hit from the back.
They hit [Gm] the scale.
[C] Like the owl boy that's hidden [Gm] on the dollar bill.
Welcome to the rotten [C] apple.
The city [Gm] of lights.
No matter how [C] they shine,
it can't steal [Gm] the nights.
Cause when the ghost [Cm] knock knock,
just before [Gm] your guest, red dot at your chest.
[C] The eagles raid [Gm] the cuckoo's nest.
Better be with them artillery [Cm] packs.
They be jumping like jack when they flip out [Gm] the box.
Rat tat tat tat tat's the sound of [C] the gat.
They be flying through the air like the fire [Gm] bat.
Straight from the bat.
When they [Cm] attack in the middle of the night, when you up in [Gm] the trap.
You keep on bucking, they bucking [G] you back in the middle of the bunk.
And somebody [Gm] get flack.
Oh [Cm] I'ma do this one before my [Gm] homies gone.
The [Cm] judge hit the hammer,
they ain't coming [Gm] home.
_ [G] We all are from the danger [Gm] zone.
The devil [G] pulled a card and he said choose [Gm] one.
I chose music, [Cm] my homies [Gm] chose ya.
_ [Cm] Some of my boys chose the [Gm] NBA.
[Cm] Us was on the block when the [D] gang bang.
_ [F] Funeral process making all [Gm] the change.
Yeah, [Cm] when my cousin got his [Gm] first tech.
I [D] was playing Jimi [C] Hendrix in the [Gm] basement.
_ _ [Cm] He was a rock [F] star.
And all he wanted [Bb] to do was a, a [Gm] scurr bar.
_ [Cm] El Chavo, see.
[Gm] El Chavo.
All he wanted to do was be El Chavo.
_ El Chavo.
[Eb] All I did was practice.
[F] When he draw me like a [Bb] dog.
Felt like Prince [G] Elias. _ _ _ _ _
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[E] Your [C] life matters. _ _
[Am] [Em] His life matters.
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[Em] Her life [C] matters. _
[E] Then black life [B] matters. _ _
[Em] Police [C] life matters. _ _
[A] The judge [G] life matters. _ _
[E] Human [C] rights matter. _
[E] Then black [Em] lives matter.
This is a message from heaven.
[C] Yeah, yeah.
[Am] The whole town's [Bm] overbooked.
This is a [Em] message from heaven.
[C] Yeah, yeah.
[E] Why you stealing them from earth [Bm] so soon?
This is a message [Em] from heaven.
[C] _ This is a message from heaven.
[A] We need to [Bm] go back
to what [E] we once knew.
La, [C] la, la, la, la, [A] la.
La, la, [B] la, la, [Em] la, la.
La, la, la, la, la, la.
All we [C] needed was love.
La, la, la, la, [A] la, la.
That is all [B] we needed.
All we needed was love.
[Em] Kids [C] life matters. _
[Am] Foreign soldiers [Bm] matter. _ _
[Em] College [C] girls matter. _
[Em] You know the whole world [Bm] matters.
We need to go back [E] to the truth.
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