Chords for Erykah Badu: "Tyrone" (North Sea Jazz 2001)

_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ Peace and love, y'all.
How y'all feel?
[G] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bbm] _ Sisters, how y'all feel?
[Cm] _ _ [G] Brothers, y'all alright?
[Gb] _
Alright.
[Cm] I first want to ask the elders in the house if I can [Bbm] speak freely.
Yes, sir.
[Bb] Because I got something [Cm] I want to share.
I first want to thank the creator for this [Bbm] gift.
_ Give thanks, yeah.
And I want to thank y'all for being reflections of this gift.
[Bbm] Yeah.
_ _ _ [Ab] Y'all, I've been having [G] this dream.
It's a recurring [Bbm] dream that I've been having.
[Cm] And it's that all the people in the world [B] will [Bbm] one day feel free enough to be they self without giving a [Cm] damn what nobody else has to say.
_ _ [Gb] _ [Bb] And it seems so far away, but it [Cm] seems so close.
Because I've been seeing a lot of freedom [Bbm] and creativity.
And it just makes me feel, you know, [Cm] like we're getting to a place where we can totally be free to express ourselves.
Because, you know, I just be anywhere sometimes.
And [Cm] I just sometimes want to throw my hands up in the [G] air and be like, ah!
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ You know, because [Bbm] sometimes there's a lot of love and a lot of pain [Ab] inside that we just want to express.
[G] And if you feel free with me this [Bbm] evening, y'all, in Amsterdam, throw your hands up like this and [Ab] holler out your own [G] damn name right now.
[Gb] _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
Yeah.
[Cm] Now, [G] I suspect [Bbm] that you have just witnessed the God in you.
That's how the [Ab] creator in you feel.
That's how [Gb] the most high wants us to [F] feel and wants us to be free enough to be who we [G] are.
So when I bring [Cm] an ankh up here for [F] 360 degrees of light for a Bible, for the word, [Cm] or a holy Koran for the truth, or a candle for light, or some [Bbm] water for purification,
or a Buddhist symbol for [Cm] meditation, or Jah Rashtafari, or whatever it [Bbm] is, I'm only trying to encourage [Cm] you.
Freedom.
Freedom, y'all.
_ _ It's the [Cm] willpower that's grown today, y'all.
We got to build it back up.
_ [Bbm] _ It's love that's missing.
And it [Cm] starts right here.
_ _ [Bbm] Junebug, how you feel about that?
Sisters, how [Gb] y'all feel?
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Am] _ I'm so happy to be here with y'all.
_ [Abm] _ [Ebm] I needed this.
[Bbm] Thank you, y'all.
Give it up for yourselves.
[Abm] _ [G] Yay! _ _ _
Get up on [Abm] my back.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ [Am] Yeah.
[Db] Let me ask y'all something.
[G] If your little boy ran out into the [Abm] street and some cars [A] were coming, [Bbm] y'all listen.
[G]
What you supposed to [Eb] do?
Calm.
Calm.
[Bbm] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [F] _ _ [Db] All right.
[Bbm]
Say [Abm] if your man, ladies, if [Am] your man was gone from home way [Fm] too long, you got a cell phone number, [Abm] what you supposed to do?
Calm.
Calm.
_ [F] _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Abm] Say [F] if the rent [Fm] man come to get the money, y'all with me?
[Abm] Say if the rent man come to get the money and you ain't [Bbm] got it all, say you're a little short, you know, [Abm] _ _ [Am] _ [F] wait a minute.
If you're a little short with the money, [Abm] what you supposed to do?
Stall [Fm] him.
Stall him.
_ _ [F] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Abm] Wait a minute.
_ [Db] Getting tired [F] of your shit.
[Abm] You don't never [G] fucking arrest.
[Bbm] _ _ [F] _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Bb]
I'm [Abm] here to bring him [F] to me.
Oh, _ _ [G] _
[Eb] yeah.
_ [Fm] _ Why can't we be [F] quiet?
Why _ [Abm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Fm] _ _
can't [Abm] _ [A] we _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [A] be [Fm] _ _ [F] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Fm] _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Db] quiet?
I'm here to bring him to me.
Why [F] can't we be quiet?
_ [Gb] I'm here to bring him to me. [Gbm] I'm not. _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [F] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [F] _ _ I'm [Abm] not.
_ [F] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ [G] I'm _ [Eb] _ [Fm] not.
_ I'm not. I'm [Abm] not.
_ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [F]
I'm not.
_ _ [Abm] I'm not.
_ _ [A] _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [F] _
[Bbm] I'm not.
[Ebm] I'm not.
I'm not.
[F] I'm not. _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ I'm not.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ I'm not.
[G] I'm not.
I'm not.
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _
_ [G] I'm not.
_ [Gm] I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
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