Be for Real Chords by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass

[Fm] _ _ _ [Ab] Hey lady, can I say something to you for a minute?
[Gm] _ _ _ please
No [Eb] now before [Gm] you take your coat off.
That's I've _ got something to tell you [A] see what I have to say
It's so very important to our relationship
[Ab] _ _ _ Why is it every time we go out on the town to get [Gm] around my friends?
_ _ _ [G] Man, you're always talking [Gm] about what you got _ Yeah
[Bb] _ What I done bought for you?
_ How much money I [Ab] made?
_ _ _ _ _ And what school our [Gm] children go to
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[Cm] _ _ _ Big pretty [G]
cars and [A] _ big [Dm] diamond [Cm] rings and the fantastic make coats
[Fm] _ _ You for real
[Gm] No, I don't think yeah
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_ [Gm] Sit down now.
No, I don't say nothing.
[Cm] You see wait a minute.
That's your [F] problem
[Dm] _ [Fm] That is your problem you're always saying the wrong thing at the right time _
_ [Gm] _ _ You see _ [G] I don't I don't know [Eb] how to explain it to you
_ The best I can tell you is what [G] my mother [F] told me as I was coming up
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She [Fm] _ _ _ used to say son
chances [Gm] go round
_ She's saying the [G] same people that you meet [Cm] going up
_ [Eb] You make the same old faces [F] coming down
_ _ Yeah
Tell the [A] truth
[Fm] _ _ _ _ You see people that day [Gm] they come out man apart
They come out the [G] party man.
They didn't come up [Eb] to hear all that job mess you talking about
You [F] stand up in the corner with a bottle of champagne
Talking [Fm] about Harry Joe and Nick and Bobby _
and [Gm] _ what they ain't got _ _ [G] _
[Eb] and they lived out in the lower development homes and
You [F] _ won't even help you [Eb] won't even buy my drink.
Is that [Fm] any way to me? _ _ _ _
If you're [Gm] gonna boast boast around somebody that has what you [G] have
_ [Eb] _ Don't make your own brothers and sisters feel bad
_ [F] _ _ _ you [Eb] see listen, [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 [Eb] crying.
Oh Papa why? _ _
_ [F] _ _ Why why don't nobody want to be my drink?
[Fm] _ _ _ You told me a long time ago.
You said [Gm] Papa.
What am I doing?
_ _ [G] I didn't want to tell you that [Eb] I thought you'd have sent enough to realize what you're doing, but I see you [F] don't
_ _ _ Sit down and listen to [Fm] me.
Don't sit down _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ You see people are too sensitive [G] today
_ [Eb] They don't want to hear all that job.
You talking man _
You see they [Dm] don't want to hear about what you got because they trying to get it to
[Fm] _ _ Tell the truth I _ [Gm] _ _ _ can't very much blame [G] her _ [Eb] as much as it hurts me
_ It hurts to see [F] people going around behind our backs
Saying that his woman [Fm] this his woman that and she ain't this she ain't that [Gm] _ I
Want to be proud of you mama?
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_ [Eb] _ _ I want to be proud of you
_ [F] _ _ Listen as [Eb] long as you live
[Fm] _ As long as you live
_ [Gm] Whether you with me or [Eb] not
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Oh
You should [Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ have no attitude of the living [Gm] good _ _ _
No
If you're [Bb] smartly dressed _ _
_ [Fm] Hey, baby
_ Hey, baby _
[Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _ What you should be doing is get down on your knees [Gm] every night
_ _ [Bb] And thank you the [Eb] man above for being blessed _ [Gm] right [C] now _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ The day you start with this _ [Bb] _ Hey
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_ _ _ [D] Free
Because [Bb] of _ the [Eb] silliest stupid things you say _
_ [Fm] My baby, _ _ baby, hey, baby
_ _ You better dig yourself that woman
[Bb] _ _ Put people down is less less than [Eb] you
_ It just don't [Gm] pay [C] Hey
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Hey, baby
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