Chords for Patti Austin with the Jazz Crusaders - Street Life (1997)

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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] I'm _ [Ab] going to play the street life, [Db] because there's no place I can't go.
[Cm] Street life, [Ab] it's the only life I know.
_ Street life, well [Bbm] there's a [Db] thousand parts to play.
[Cm] Street life, [Fm] until you play your life away, you [Db] let the people see
[Eb] just who you want to [F] be.
[Db] And every night [Ab] you shine, just like [Cm] a superstar.
[Abm] That's how the game [Bbm] is [G] played, [Gb] a ten second [G] masquerade.
[Db] You dress, you walk, you talk, [Cm] you're who you think you [Ab] are.
Street life, [Bbm] _
[Db] away from signs.
[Eb] Street life, [Ab] boring, nickel, or a dime.
Street life, [Bbm] but you better not get old.
[Cm] _ Street life, [Fm] or you're gonna feel the cold.
[Db] There's always love for sale, [Eb] a grown up fairy tale.
[Fm] Every charm it always [Ab] hides, behind a silver screen.
[Dbm] You [Gb] keep it [B] down, [Bm] this song will still [Dbm] be sung.
[Bbm] Your love will pay away, [Ab] beneath that silver moon.
[E] Street [B] life, _
[Dbm] _ _ [B] it's all [E] about street [Abm] life.
Street life, [Dbm] _ _ [B] your [F] love, street [C] life. _
[Dm] _ _ [C] [F] Oh, your [C] street life.
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[Eb] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] Out of sight. _
[Dbm] Oh, [B] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
_ [B] _ _ [F] _ [C] street life.
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_ [C] _ _ [E] Street life.
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[Dbm] _ [Abm] Oh, [E] street [B] life. _ _
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[Gm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] I'm talking [Ab] about the street _ _ life.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] The street life.
_ This [Bb] song is about [Ab] prostitution.
Lord have mercy.
It's about walking them [Bb] streets.
It ain't no [Ab] fun.
It ain't got nothing to do with pretty women.
_ [Gm] It ain't got nothing to do [Eb] with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
No, no, no, [Gm] no, no.
[Bb] It's a very funky [Ab] thing, [Bb] Lord, Lord.
Living [Ab] that street life.
_ Well, [Bb] you [Ab] gotta bed at six o'clock [Gm] in the morning
[G] [Eb] when you're living that street life, street [Ab] life.
[Gm] _ [Cm] Well, you get your money _ and you get [Bb] yourself straight.
[Ab] You get out on the block.
You look at that clock go tick, tock, [Fm] tick.
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[Ab] _ _ [Bb] [G] Then you [Ab] go home.
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[Ab] _ [Gm] Well, they [Ab] don't know [A] me.
[D] Said that [Eb] street life [Bb] _ _ _ [D] is [Gb] no fun, [Ab] baby. _
_ _ [Fm] Somebody [Cm] help me sleep.
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Street life, [Gm] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ [Gm] _
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_ [Gm] it has got to go.
[Ab] Street life, I [Bb] ain't going.
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