Тональность: G# minor
Verse 1
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Em
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Em
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F#m
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ba -ba -da -ba -ba -dup
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Hey, hey, hey, do you
Em
B
Em
Hey, hey, do you re member
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Em
E
Em
Back in the day when
we were innocent
Do you remember those days?
Am
Em
Am
Em
E
I want to go back to
A
Em
E
those days.
A
D
Em
I want to remember
those
Do you remember?
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My back in the day was
beautiful.
This seedling sprouted
in a chocolate city oasis
nestled comfortably
between urban reality and nature,
busting at the seams
with new brown two -parent families,
Em
several tax brackets north of poverty,
E
my childhood cradled in
D
A
more than enough.
E
In the aftermath of the slaying
of prophets
and wide -sweeping Supreme Court rulings,
bedtime stories were mixed with mantras
Em
G
Em
proclaiming that the world was mine,
E
so I Mack Henson'd my global possibilities
Em
E
in bobos and tough -skin jeans,
typical dress -up dolls cast aside for tackle
A
E
football and climbing trees,
Am
E
lop sided afro puffs of pigtails
adorned with grass clippings,
pine needles and leaves,
Em
bike races on ba nana
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seats of 10 -speeds,
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playing Pac -Man or
Space Invaders on Atari,
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a big fat strawberry lip smacking
Em
for kissing designated cute boys,
D
Em
living my version of free,
D
loving every inch of high yellow, chunky,
Em
artsy, intelligent tomboy me.
E
Seems impossible that our Babies will have many
pleasant memories
Em
E
when they seldom see more than potholed
asphalt or heavy traffic.
Crushed crack vials and
broken 40 bottles
glistening like cheap glitter
provide not even the slightest semblance
of nature or fertile soil.
Today's ghetto flowers
bring forth their thorns before
their petals.
Vivid colors or fragrance
regarded as signs of weakness.
Em
Delicate beauty not prized
and rewarded,
E
just used and discarded.
So their dreams are calloused,
tough skin embedded instead of
Em
wash and wear.
E
Em
And I pray that their spirits find a grassy
E
place to take root and rejuvenate.
I pray that their laughter rides a breeze beyond
tenement rooftops and circulates.
I pray that the drill team stomps squash
Em
all negative vibes,
E
that their inner voice drowns
out all the noise
Em
with a steady rhyme of sur
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vive because we need you
you need you black child
Em
E
if i'm blessed enough
to make my old and gray
i want to be able to proclaim this music and
poetry grooved so deep
that it caused the tide to change
Em
that it convinced love and peace to
E
douse the world in waves
that it reversed soul erosion
and built a foundation for change
Em
E
i want want to look back on my life and smile because I made a way so we all can say,
E
Em
E
do you remember?
Em
Do you remember in the day when
we were innocent?
E
D
E
Do you recall those days?
Am
Em
Am
I want to
E
A
E
go back to those days.
I want to remember, do you remember?
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