Sounds best done in power chords.
Enjoy :)
-Monkeyface84
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
Verse 1
G D
Have you ever had the feeling that you was being had
Em
Don’t that sh-t make you mad
D C
They treat you like a slave, with chains all on your soul,
D
And put whips up on your back,
C
They be lying through they teeth
D
Hope you slip up off your path
G
I don’t switch up I just laugh
D
Put my kicks up on they desk
Em D
Unaffected by they threats than get busy on they ass
C
See that’s how that Chi-Town made me
D
That’s how my daddy raised me
C D
That glittering may not be gold, don’t let no body play me
G D
If you are my homeboy, you never have to pay me
Em D
Go on and put your hands up, when times are hard you stand up
C D
L-U-P the man, cause a brand that the fans trust
C D
So even if they ban us they’ll never slow my plans up!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
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Verse 2
G
One in the air for the people that ain’t here
D
Two in the air for the father that’s there
Em
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
D
Four for the kids who don’t wanna be there
C
None for the n-ggas trying to hold them back
D
Five in the air for the teacher not scared
C
To tell those kids thats living in the ghetto
D
That the n-ggas holdin back that the World is theirs!
G D
Yeah yeah, the World is yours, I was once that little boy
Em
Terrified of the World
D
Now I’m on a World tour
C D
I will give up everything, even start a world war
C D
For these ghettos girls and boys im rapping round’ the World for!
G D Em
Africa to New York, Haiti then I detour, Oakland out to Auckland
D C
Gaza Strip to Detroit, say hip-hop only destroy
D
Tell em’ look at me, boy!
C D
I hope your son don’t have a gun and that would be a D-boy
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
Verse 3
G
So no matter what you been through
D
No matter what you into
Em D
No matter what you see when you look outside your window
C
Brown grass or green grass
D
Picket fence or barbed wire
C
Never ever put them down
D
You just lift your arms higher
G
Raise em till’ your arms tired
D
Let em’ know you’re there
Em D
That you struggling and survivin’ that you gonna persevere
C D
Yeah, ain’t no body leavin, no body goin’ home
C D
Even if they turn the lights out the show is goin’ on!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
All night, till the morning we dream so long
C D
Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go
C
Just remember when you come up
D
The show goes on!
(end on G)
