Be For Real - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass Chords

[Fm] _ _ _ _ Hey lady, can I say something to you for [Gm] a minute?
_ _ Please?
[G] No, now, [Gm] before you take your coat off, that's it. _ _ _
[F] I've got something to tell you.
See, what I have to say is so very [A] important to our relationship.
[Fm] _ _ _ _ Why is it every time we go out on the [C] town and get around my friends, [Gm] _ _ man, [G] you're always
[Gm] talking about what you got.
_ _ _ What I done bought for you.
_ _ How much money [Ab] I make.
_ _ _ _ _ And what school [Gm] our children go to.
_ _ _ [G] And all [Gm] the fancy clothes and the big pretty cars [F] and the big diamond rings and the [Cm] fantastic men [Fm] coats.
_ _ _ Is you for real?
_ [Gm] _ No, I don't think you are.
_ [G] _
_ [Gm] Sit down now.
No, sit down.
Now don't say nothing.
[Cm] You see, wait a minute, wait a minute.
[F] That's your [Dm] problem.
[Fm] That is your problem.
You're always saying the wrong thing at the right time. _
_ [Gm] _ _ You see, [G] I don't [Eb] know how to explain it to you.
_ _ The best I can tell you is what my [F] mother told me as I was coming up.
[Am] _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ She used to say, son, _ [Gm] chances go round.
_ _ She's saying the [G] same people that you [Cm] meet going up, _ you make the same old faces [F] coming down.
_ _ Now, I'm telling [Cm] you.
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ You see, people today, [Gm] they come out, man, to party.
They come out to [G] party, man.
They didn't come out [Eb] to hear all that job mess you talking about.
_ [Cm] _
[F] You standing up in the corner with a bottle of champagne [Fm] talking about Harry, Joe, Dick,
and Bobby and [Gm] _ what they ain't got.
_ _ [G] _
[Eb] And they live down in the lower development homes and _
_ [F] _ you won't even help.
You won't even buy them a [Eb] drink.
Is [Fm] that any way to be? _ _ _ _
If you're [Gm] going to boast, boast around somebody that has what you [G] have.
_ [Gm] _ Don't make your own brothers and sisters feel [Cm] bad.
[F] _ _ _ You [Eb] see, _
_ [Fm] _ _ I know you know what I'm talking about because [Gm] from time to time I can remember
you coming to me, putting your [G] head on my shoulder and [Eb] crying, oh, Papa, why? _ _
_ [F] _ _ Why?
Why don't nobody want to be my brother?
[Fm] _ _ _ You told me a long time ago, you said, [Gm] Papa, what am I doing?
_ _ [G] I didn't want to tell you then.
[Eb] I thought you'd have sense enough to realize what you're doing, but I see you don't.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ Sit [Cm] down and listen to [Fm] me.
No, sit down. _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ You see, people are too sensitive [G] today.
_ [Eb] _ They don't want to hear all that job you talking about. _
_ [Dm] _ You see, they don't want to hear about what you got because they [A] trying to get [Dm] it too.
[Fm] I'm telling you, _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ I can't very much blame them [G] _
_ [Eb] as much as it hurts me.
It hurts to see people [F] going around behind our back _ saying that his woman [Fm] this and his
woman that and she ain't this and she ain't that.
[Gm] I want to be proud of you, Mama.
_ [G] _
_ [Eb] _ I want to be proud of you. _
_ [F] _ _ Listen, [Eb] as long as you [Fm] live, _ _ _ as long as you live, [Gm] _ whether you with me or not.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ Before. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Before. _
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
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You _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ [Gm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
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should _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ have no attitude of living [Gm] good.
_ _ _ No, if [Bb] you're smartly dressed. _ _
[Fm] Hey, baby, [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ [Fm] _ _ what you should be doing is get [D] down on your knees every [Gm] night.
Thank _ [Bb] you, [Eb] man.
About being blessed.
_ _ Right [C] now.
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] If _ you want to present, they can start with a [Bb] smile.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] Be free.
_ _ _ _ _ Be _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] free. _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
Be _ _ [Eb] free. _ _
Marie.
I [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
want to chase my [Bb] friends away _ _ _ because of [Eb] the silly and stupid things you say. _ _ _
_ [Fm] My baby, my baby, hey, baby, _ you better dig yourself down, woman.
[Bb] _ _ Put people down and that's less than [Eb] you.
_ It just don't pay.
[C] Yeah.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ [C] I [Fm] _ _
_ _ want people to dig my [Bb] style with a smile.
_ _ _ [C] _ [Ab] Before you _ go. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Hey, _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] let's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ just. _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Don't want to.
[Gm] I.
_ [Ab] _
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you you
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