I Tried Chords by Geto Boys

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_ [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] She don't wanna be with me no [Eb] more, [Bbm] and up off she just tired of this dumb [Ab] shit, she
don't know whether to throw in the towel or if he gon' [Fm] grow, and if he do, [Ab] where's he gon' go?
I'm gonna let him go, gotta let him from an old friend, I read it in [Bbm] the grind when he
told me that his girl just [Ab] died, right out of the blue, breast cancer wasn't nothing
to [Fm] do, now I'm sitting [Ab] here and thinking of you, [Db] trying to come to amends, [Ab] cause really
I don't want it to end, you [Db] the only one I trust as a [Ab] friend, I know I'm on my last leg
after with this bullshit [Fm] written, but I still [Ab] gotta bring it to light, now half [Db] of a lifetime
[Eb] is it [Ab] cause I would not listen, accused about my wrong and my right, they telling me [Fm] that
time heals wounds though, this wound gon' need some stitches, I got testimony for niggas,
[Eb] you're doing what you do but when the shoe gets [Ab] flipped, you're standing on the other
foot and got your boots and shit, you need backup or analyze, fix shit [Fm] or finalize, before
[Ab] you leave this shit alone just try, maybe it's something you [Eb] can do to rectify [Bbm] what's
dead, plus you gotta think of the [Ab] kids, it's kinda just the way life is, you either got
[Ebm] a limb or you die, at least that I can say let's [Bb] try, cause I tried, [Eb] I tried to do the
best I [Ab] could, sometimes I guess my best ain't good, enough, cause when it's over said shit
done, [Ebm] sit by yourself next up, [Db] but I tried, [Eb] I tried to do the best I [Ab] could, sometimes
I guess my best ain't good, enough, cause when it's over said shit done, sit by [Ebm] yourself
next up, [Ab] but I tried,
I've never been a crack head to con your shit, but I did put a foot in you bitch, I sold dope
raw folks had to make ends [Fm] meet, since fifth grade I [Ab] been up in these streets, trying [Db] to
get it, raped my single mother, two [Eb] sisters, [Bbm] two brothers, I used to make shit and [Ab] lovers,
cause she beat us so much, plus she came home drunk, but [Fm] every night then she'd knock on
[Ab] wood and say, I tried to do [Fm] the best that I [Eb] could, and I believe her, cause she was treating
[Ab] evil out the box, you can't give what you ain't got, mama I was young, hitting niggas,
started helping you [Fm] out, about the closest that [Ebm] you came to a man in a [Db] house, I [Ab] was talking
back, walking through the door getting smacked, you [Db] used to brag to your friends on [Ab] how well
I walked, we never really got along, but when you took a sick, I was at your side [Ebm] till you
died, I wasn't the best [Db] son, but I [Eb] tried, I tried to do the best I [Ab] could, sometimes
I guess my best ain't good, cause when it's over say the shit done, [Ebm] cause sitting by yourself
ain't stuff, [Db] but I tried, [Eb] tried to do [Ab] the best I could, sometimes I guess my best ain't
good, and when it's over say the shit [Ebm] done, cause sitting by yourself ain't stuff, [Ab] but I tried.
I've [Eb] always been a troupe, [Bbm] never giving up, but the past few [Ab] years has been really rough,
Felt like giving up a couple of [Fm] times
Take a nerve, I plan [Ab] to slug deep
Open my [Db] mind, fuck it, I'm dying
[Ab] Done with struggling for [Bbm] mine
Sleeping on fans' floors, ain't [Ab] no use to me lying
Change my name for anonymity's sake
But [Fm] a four-feet door, if they be [Ab] on television, hard to [Db] miss
I get pissed over [Eb] little shit
Little [Bbm] shit drive me crazy
Then I start [Ab] thinking about my babies
I can't go to jail, I [Fm] can't die
Who better to teach [Ab] them all this cruel world than [Db] I?
Their mommas won't let me [Eb] see them, I still pay my [Db] support
Cause once you give life, life [Ab] is bigger than yours
Maybe I'm not all you expect me to [Bb] be
But when it's done, it's said, [C] ultimately, daddy [Db] cries
I try to do the best I could
Sometimes I guess my best ain't [Ab] good
Enough, cause when it's over, say it's shit [Ebm] done
It's living by yourself mixed up
[Ab] But I try, I try to do the best I [Bb] could
Sometimes I guess [Ab] my best ain't good
Enough, cause when it's over, say it's shit [Ebm] done
It's living by yourself mixed [Ab] up
But I try
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