Chords for Coolio and LV - Gangsta's Paradise [9-5-95]

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Hey there folks, ladies and gentlemen,
my next guest tonight is with us
to perform the number one song in the country,
which appears on the number one album in the country,
the soundtrack to the movie, Dangerous Minds.
Folks, it's a real pleasure to welcome along with LV
and the New York Boys Choir, Coolio.
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[F] Yeah, [G] _ [C] New York Boys Choir in the [Ab] house. _
[F] LV in the [G] house.
Check it out.
[C] _ [Ab] As I walk through the [Bb] valley of the shadow of death,
[G] I take a look at my life [Eb] and realize there's nothing [Ab] left
cause I've been [Bb] passing and laughing so [G] long
that even my mama [Eb] thinks that my mind is gone.
[Ab] But I ain't never crossed a [F] man that didn't deserve it.
[G] Me be treated like a punk, [C] you know that's unheard [Ab] of.
You better watch how [F] you're talking and where you're [G] walking
or you and your [C] homies might be lying.
[Ab] I really hate to [F] trip, but I got to look.
[G] As I croak, I see [C] myself in the pistol smoke.
[Ab] I'm the kind of [F] deed a little homie's gonna be [G] like
on my knees in the [C] night, saying prayers in the [Ab] streetlight.
We've been [Bb] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] We've been [Fm] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Cm] deathless paradise.
[Ab] We've been [Bb] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] We've been [Bb] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] Look at the [F] situation they got me facing.
[G] I can't live a normal life.
[C] I was raised by the state.
[Ab] So I got to be [F] down with the hood team.
[G] Too much television watching [C] got me chasing dreams.
[Ab] I'm an educated [F] fool with money on my mind.
[G] Mac-10 in my [Bbm] hand and the gleam in my eye.
[Ab] I'm a ghost out [F] next to set tripping bank.
[G] And my homies is down [C] so don't arouse my anger.
[Ab] Fool, death ain't [F] nothing but a heartbeat
of the way [G] I'm living life, you and [C] I.
What can I [Ab] say?
I'm 23 now [F] but will I live to see [G] 24?
The way things is knowing [C] I don't know.
[Ab] Tell me why [F] we [G] so blind [C] to see
that [Ab] the ones [F] we hurt [G] are you [C] and [Ab] me.
We've been [Bb] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] We've been [Bb] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] That's right.
We've been [Bb] spending most of our lives
[G] living in the [Eb] deathless [Ab] paradise.
We've been [Bb] spending most of our lives
[G] living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] Power and the [F] money, money and the [G] power.
Minute after [C] minute, hour after [Ab] hour.
Everybody's [F] running but half of them ain't looking.
[G] It's going on in the kitchen
[C] but I don't know what's working.
[Ab] They say I got to [F] learn but nobody's here to teach [G] me.
If they can't [C] understand it, how can they [Ab] reach me?
I guess they [F] think, I guess they want, [G] I guess they front.
That's why [C] I got my hand on the [Ab] clock, fool.
We've been [F] spending most of our lives
[G] living in the [Cm] deathless [Ab] paradise.
We've been [Bb] spending most of our lives
[G] living in the [Cm] deathless paradise.
[Ab] We've been [Bbm] spending most of our lives
[G] living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] We've been [Bb] spending most of our [G] lives
living in the [Eb] deathless paradise.
[Ab] And why [Bbm] are we [G] so blind [Eb] to see
that [Ab] the ones [Bb] we hurt [G] are you [Eb] and me?
[Ab] And why [Bb] are we [G] so blind [Cm] to see
that [Ab] the ones [Bb] we hurt [G] are you and [Cm] me?
[Ab] Ain't no [Bb] gangsters [G] [D] living in [Ab] paradise.
Ain't no gangsters [G] living in paradise.
Ain't no gangsters [Eb] living in paradise. _ _
Gangsters [G] living [C] in paradise. Paradise. _
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_ _ Okay, folks, we're gonna have to run.
I do wanna thank Julio and LV,
and congratulations on the number one song in the world.
Thank you, thank you.
Great, thank you very much.
Way to go, Will.
Good night,