Tonart: B minor
Verse 1
Am
G
C
F
G
Around my way
Am
G
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
C
F
All the corners filled
Am
All the streets are filled with pain
G
C
F
G
Am
Around my way
Verse 2
F
G
Am
G
C
F
G
Am
G
Around my way
C
F
G
All the corners filled with sorrow
Am
All the streets are filled with pain
C
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
C
Verse 3
F
People let me paint a picture,
G
you know I ain't a Christian
Am
C
G
I ain't a Muslim, ain't a Jew,
F
I speak to God directly,
G
Am
I know my God respect me
G
'Cause he let me breathe his air
C
F
and he really blessed me
G
I ain't knocking you but I
don't fuck with hospitals
G
C
truly knowing Jesus like apostles do
F
Return like the prodigal son
Am
G
Stay away from Him, like Abraham,
Verse 4
F
Even when you took my man Chaka
Am
You gave the hood a modern day
G
C
martyr in Brother Amadou
F
G
I'm on the block, I'm tracing your footsteps,
I keep the faith in you
Am
Your love, plus hard work and ambi
G
C
tion, we gonna make it through
F
My songs is psalms I'm spir
Am
G
This is for my soldier niggaz looking
in the mirror who
F
Sitting home scratching
G
off serials eating cereal
Am
The way we find a way to survive,
Verse 5
F
We got mice in the crib and
G
roaches in the toasters
C
bread in the oven by the roaster
F
We be takin' gypsy cabs and
Am
They be laced with shitty swag and it
G
C
really get me mad
F
The way we be saluting flags,
G
wrapping them around our heads
Am
When niggaz ain't become
G
C
F
American till 9 11
Feeling like you gotta
Am
When the reverend looking like a pimp
And the pimp look like the
Verse 6
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
C
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
C
F
All the corners filled
Am
All the streets are filled with pain
G
C
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
C
Verse 7
F
These conditions make us strong
G
C
And we create our own businesses
so later on
Our children have things in their
F
name that they can say their own
C
freestyle become your fa vorite song
G
C
No place like home
"What about your neighbors?"
G
C
Till you spill your guys like you a Garcia Vega
Verse 8
F
G
We roll blunts not the papers
Am
Cop the greatest take it coast to coast
G
C
L.A. to Chicago like smooth operators
F
G
Cop the dro and cop the blacks
Am
Cop the four, cock it back
Drop the flow,
G
rock a hat on top a stocking cap
Verse 9
F
G
Be a doctor or a lawyer or make your
Momma a promise that
Am
You'll finish school but when you got a
G
C
dream you gotta follow that
F
And make sure when you make it out
G
the hood you always holler back
Am
C
Think about what you got from that and
G
always put your dollars back
F
G
On top of that, this is a legacy
and we a part of that
Am
The hood is where my heart is at,
F
G
Verse 10
Am
C
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
F
G
All the corners filled with sorrow
C
Am
G
All the streets are filled with hate
C
F
G
Am
Around my
Verse 11
F
G
Am
G
C
F
G
Am
Around my way
G
C
F
All the corners filled
Am
All the streets are filled with pain
G
C
F
G
Am
Around my
G
C
F
G
Am
G
F
G
Am
F
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G
F
G
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