Chords for Public Enemy- THE LONG AND WHINING ROAD
Tempo:
88.55 bpm
Chords used:
Am
F
G
D
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[F] [G]
[Am] [G] [F]
[G] [Am]
That's [G] right.
[F] Public Enemy number [D] one.
[Am] 20 years.
[G] [F] [D]
It's been [Am] a long and winding road [G] even though [F] time keeps a changing.
I'm gonna [D] bring it all back [Am] home.
I've been told I [G] spit lyrics with politics, [F] why would not?
It says [D] Negro on my birth certificate.
[Am] Born in 1960 in [G] the nation [F] throughout.
I've been a spokesperson [D] for a [Am] generation within the same old fear of a [G] black planet.
[F] 20 years of blood, sweat, no [D] tears for [Am] phonetics.
So damn it.
In times [G] as hard, time [F] is God, understand it.
Never [D] took time for [Am] granted.
It's all right, Ma.
As a [G] child of the [F] 60s, along the watchtower, I can't [D] bet they're gonna [Am] miss me.
I'm only bleeding every grain [G] in me.
[F] Fans, if it's not for you, there'd [D] be no P [Am].E.
From the Nashville [G] skyline to the homeboys and the girls [F] in South Country.
In this [D] world gone wrong, here's another [Am] love song.
Public Enemy number one.
Yeah.
[Em] Public Enemy number [F] one.
Yeah.
Y'all need to stop [D] hating on me.
[Am] Public Enemy number one. Come on.
Public Enemy number [C] one.
Yeah.
20 years.
Public Enemy number [Am] one.
Honestly, y'all [D] need to stop hating on me.
We came a [Am] long way, baby.
You [G] know it's amazing [F] the surprise we told these new guys.
[D] Flavor's always been [Am] crazy.
Hit London [G] 87 like it was an [F] invasion.
Toured the world for [D] three years, a hell of a [A] vocation.
[Am] Vocation of [G] vocalization, especially with the [F] impact of it takes a nation [D] of millions
to hold us back.
[A] You bet [Am] there's blood on them bomb [G] squad tracks.
[F] Let's deal, bass head, [D] party for your right to fight.
[Am] Prophets of rage, breaking noise that [G] don't believe the [F] hype.
Can't do nothing for you, man.
9-1 [D]-1 is a [Am] ghost.
20 years we got here by acting [G] like common [F] folk.
Touring the world like [D] a rolling stone in the [Am] 90s game.
Then we welcome y'all to [G] the terror [F] zone.
Some threw it all away, [D] instead we had something to [Am] say.
Cause the streets still get it up by having [G] no names.
[F] Since Rebel without a pause, [D] the beats were never the [Am] same.
And by 1998, we still [G] had gang.
[F] Rocking [D] on, rocking on, rocking [Am] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] One, only one, only one, [C] only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
[A] Only a [Am] pawn in the game, [G] chastised for naming names.
[F] What was said and who said [D] it, anti-nothing, so [Am] forget it.
Tears of rage [G] left a friend blowing in the wind.
[F] But time has got me [D] back for 10 years in black [Am] again.
Some of them same cats help usher in [G] gangster rap.
[F] Damn, our interviews were [D] better than a lot of them acts.
[Am] Crazy gangster, just love his soul.
[G] Walk up, [F] this went from platinum,
[D] and it shrunk down to gold.
[Am] See the nation produced quite the power, the [G] gen and juice.
[F] Some people gave it up, and they [D] turned it loose.
[Am] They rocked on.
[G] [F] [D] Come [A] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just [C] honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one, only one, only one.
Only [G] one, only one, only one.
[A] Honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] Beethoven, Bach, and [G] Brahms.
I want some James Brown, [F] even Bruce Bryan, Bono, [D] Beck.
Yeah, Chuck Berry, [Am] Prince, Stevie Sly, [G] Smokey, Johnny Cash,
and my [F] Chevy.
Heard some call me Uncle [D] Tom.
Now that's petty.
[Am] I'm a songwriter, fool.
[G] I could get cents from right and [F] wrong.
I'm living in the Kia.
[D] Protest song from [Am] basement tapes.
Relying [G] on dollars and cents, changing [F] to the guard spent.
Now where [D] the hell are majors from?
[Am] Most of their time out of [Em] mind, hating my message files.
[F] Can't trust it, shut them [D] down.
Call it what you want it.
[Am] They made a day fit for a [G] king by the time we got to [F] Arizona.
Tomorrow's a long [D] time, got God on our side.
[Am] Over facing drunk beats, [G] hear the good rhymes ride.
[F] There's a poison going on.
[D] There's a shelter from the storm.
[Am] Heartbreak's going to fall, [G] still the people rock on.
[F] We rock on.
Run sweat, [D] no tears.
[Am] Only one, only [Em] one, only one.
[F] Y'all just honestly, y'all need to [D] stop hating on me.
Only one, [Am] only one, only one.
[Cm] [G] Only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me. Only one.
[Am] Only [Em] one.
[F] Honest.
Honestly, [C] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
Only one. Only one.
Only [G] one.
[F] Honestly [D] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
[Am] [G] [F] [D]
[Am] [G] [F] [D]
[Am] [G] [F] [D]
[Am] [G] [Dm]
[N]
[Am] [G] [F]
[G] [Am]
That's [G] right.
[F] Public Enemy number [D] one.
[Am] 20 years.
[G] [F] [D]
It's been [Am] a long and winding road [G] even though [F] time keeps a changing.
I'm gonna [D] bring it all back [Am] home.
I've been told I [G] spit lyrics with politics, [F] why would not?
It says [D] Negro on my birth certificate.
[Am] Born in 1960 in [G] the nation [F] throughout.
I've been a spokesperson [D] for a [Am] generation within the same old fear of a [G] black planet.
[F] 20 years of blood, sweat, no [D] tears for [Am] phonetics.
So damn it.
In times [G] as hard, time [F] is God, understand it.
Never [D] took time for [Am] granted.
It's all right, Ma.
As a [G] child of the [F] 60s, along the watchtower, I can't [D] bet they're gonna [Am] miss me.
I'm only bleeding every grain [G] in me.
[F] Fans, if it's not for you, there'd [D] be no P [Am].E.
From the Nashville [G] skyline to the homeboys and the girls [F] in South Country.
In this [D] world gone wrong, here's another [Am] love song.
Public Enemy number one.
Yeah.
[Em] Public Enemy number [F] one.
Yeah.
Y'all need to stop [D] hating on me.
[Am] Public Enemy number one. Come on.
Public Enemy number [C] one.
Yeah.
20 years.
Public Enemy number [Am] one.
Honestly, y'all [D] need to stop hating on me.
We came a [Am] long way, baby.
You [G] know it's amazing [F] the surprise we told these new guys.
[D] Flavor's always been [Am] crazy.
Hit London [G] 87 like it was an [F] invasion.
Toured the world for [D] three years, a hell of a [A] vocation.
[Am] Vocation of [G] vocalization, especially with the [F] impact of it takes a nation [D] of millions
to hold us back.
[A] You bet [Am] there's blood on them bomb [G] squad tracks.
[F] Let's deal, bass head, [D] party for your right to fight.
[Am] Prophets of rage, breaking noise that [G] don't believe the [F] hype.
Can't do nothing for you, man.
9-1 [D]-1 is a [Am] ghost.
20 years we got here by acting [G] like common [F] folk.
Touring the world like [D] a rolling stone in the [Am] 90s game.
Then we welcome y'all to [G] the terror [F] zone.
Some threw it all away, [D] instead we had something to [Am] say.
Cause the streets still get it up by having [G] no names.
[F] Since Rebel without a pause, [D] the beats were never the [Am] same.
And by 1998, we still [G] had gang.
[F] Rocking [D] on, rocking on, rocking [Am] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] One, only one, only one, [C] only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
[A] Only a [Am] pawn in the game, [G] chastised for naming names.
[F] What was said and who said [D] it, anti-nothing, so [Am] forget it.
Tears of rage [G] left a friend blowing in the wind.
[F] But time has got me [D] back for 10 years in black [Am] again.
Some of them same cats help usher in [G] gangster rap.
[F] Damn, our interviews were [D] better than a lot of them acts.
[Am] Crazy gangster, just love his soul.
[G] Walk up, [F] this went from platinum,
[D] and it shrunk down to gold.
[Am] See the nation produced quite the power, the [G] gen and juice.
[F] Some people gave it up, and they [D] turned it loose.
[Am] They rocked on.
[G] [F] [D] Come [A] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just [C] honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one, only one, only one.
Only [G] one, only one, only one.
[A] Honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] Beethoven, Bach, and [G] Brahms.
I want some James Brown, [F] even Bruce Bryan, Bono, [D] Beck.
Yeah, Chuck Berry, [Am] Prince, Stevie Sly, [G] Smokey, Johnny Cash,
and my [F] Chevy.
Heard some call me Uncle [D] Tom.
Now that's petty.
[Am] I'm a songwriter, fool.
[G] I could get cents from right and [F] wrong.
I'm living in the Kia.
[D] Protest song from [Am] basement tapes.
Relying [G] on dollars and cents, changing [F] to the guard spent.
Now where [D] the hell are majors from?
[Am] Most of their time out of [Em] mind, hating my message files.
[F] Can't trust it, shut them [D] down.
Call it what you want it.
[Am] They made a day fit for a [G] king by the time we got to [F] Arizona.
Tomorrow's a long [D] time, got God on our side.
[Am] Over facing drunk beats, [G] hear the good rhymes ride.
[F] There's a poison going on.
[D] There's a shelter from the storm.
[Am] Heartbreak's going to fall, [G] still the people rock on.
[F] We rock on.
Run sweat, [D] no tears.
[Am] Only one, only [Em] one, only one.
[F] Y'all just honestly, y'all need to [D] stop hating on me.
Only one, [Am] only one, only one.
[Cm] [G] Only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me. Only one.
[Am] Only [Em] one.
[F] Honest.
Honestly, [C] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
Only one. Only one.
Only [G] one.
[F] Honestly [D] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
[Am] [G] [F] [D]
[Am] [G] [F] [D]
[Am] [G] [F] [D]
[Am] [G] [Dm]
[N]
Key:
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G
D
Em
Am
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ That's [G] right.
[F] Public Enemy number [D] one.
[Am] 20 years.
[G] _ [F] _ _ _ [D]
It's been [Am] a long and winding road [G] even though [F] time keeps a changing.
I'm gonna [D] bring it all back [Am] home.
I've been told I [G] spit lyrics with politics, [F] why would not?
It says [D] Negro on my birth certificate.
[Am] Born in 1960 in [G] the nation [F] throughout.
I've been a spokesperson [D] for a [Am] generation within the same old fear of a [G] black planet.
[F] 20 years of blood, sweat, no [D] tears for [Am] phonetics.
So damn it.
In times [G] as hard, time [F] is God, understand it.
Never [D] took time for [Am] granted.
It's all right, Ma.
As a [G] child of the [F] 60s, along the watchtower, I can't [D] bet they're gonna [Am] miss me.
I'm only bleeding every grain [G] in me.
[F] Fans, if it's not for you, there'd [D] be no P [Am].E.
From the Nashville [G] skyline to the homeboys and the girls [F] in South Country.
In this [D] world gone wrong, here's another [Am] love song.
Public Enemy number one.
Yeah.
[Em] Public Enemy number [F] one.
Yeah.
Y'all need to stop [D] hating on me.
[Am] Public Enemy number one. Come on.
Public Enemy number [C] one.
Yeah.
20 years.
Public Enemy number [Am] one.
Honestly, y'all [D] need to stop hating on me.
We came a [Am] long way, baby.
You [G] know it's amazing [F] the surprise we told these new guys.
[D] Flavor's always been [Am] crazy.
Hit London [G] 87 like it was an [F] invasion.
Toured the world for [D] three years, a hell of a [A] vocation.
[Am] Vocation of [G] vocalization, especially with the [F] impact of it takes a nation [D] of millions
to hold us back.
[A] You bet [Am] there's blood on them bomb [G] squad tracks.
[F] Let's deal, bass head, [D] party for your right to fight.
[Am] Prophets of rage, breaking noise that [G] don't believe the [F] hype.
Can't do nothing for you, man.
9-1 [D]-1 is a [Am] ghost.
20 years we got here by acting [G] like common [F] folk.
Touring the world like [D] a rolling stone in the [Am] 90s game.
Then we welcome y'all to [G] the terror [F] zone.
Some threw it all away, [D] instead we had something to [Am] say.
Cause the streets still get it up by having [G] no names.
[F] Since Rebel without a pause, [D] the beats were never the [Am] same.
And by 1998, we still [G] had gang.
[F] Rocking [D] on, rocking on, rocking [Am] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] One, only one, only one, [C] only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
[A] Only a [Am] pawn in the game, [G] chastised for naming names.
[F] What was said and who said [D] it, anti-nothing, so [Am] forget it.
Tears of rage [G] left a friend blowing in the wind.
[F] But time has got me [D] back for 10 years in black [Am] again.
Some of them same cats help usher in [G] gangster rap.
[F] Damn, our interviews were [D] better than a lot of them acts.
[Am] Crazy gangster, just love his soul.
[G] Walk up, [F] this went from platinum,
[D] and it shrunk down to gold.
[Am] See the nation produced quite the power, the [G] gen and juice.
[F] Some people gave it up, and they [D] turned it loose.
[Am] They rocked on.
_ [G] _ [F] _ _ [D] Come [A] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just [C] honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one, only one, only one.
Only [G] one, only one, only one.
[A] Honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] Beethoven, Bach, and [G] Brahms.
I want some James Brown, [F] even Bruce Bryan, Bono, [D] Beck.
Yeah, Chuck Berry, [Am] Prince, Stevie Sly, [G] Smokey, Johnny Cash,
and my [F] Chevy.
Heard some call me Uncle [D] Tom.
Now that's petty.
[Am] I'm a songwriter, fool.
[G] I could get cents from right and [F] wrong.
I'm living in the Kia.
[D] Protest song from [Am] basement tapes.
Relying [G] on dollars and cents, changing [F] to the guard spent.
Now where [D] the hell are majors from?
[Am] Most of their time out of [Em] mind, hating my message files.
[F] Can't trust it, shut them [D] down.
Call it what you want it.
[Am] They made a day fit for a [G] king by the time we got to [F] Arizona.
Tomorrow's a long [D] time, got God on our side.
[Am] Over facing drunk beats, [G] hear the good rhymes ride.
[F] There's a poison going on.
[D] There's a shelter from the storm.
[Am] Heartbreak's going to fall, [G] still the people rock on.
[F] We rock on.
Run sweat, [D] no tears.
[Am] Only one, only [Em] one, only one.
[F] Y'all just honestly, y'all need to [D] stop hating on me.
Only one, [Am] only one, only one.
[Cm] [G] Only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me. Only one.
[Am] _ Only [Em] one.
[F] Honest.
Honestly, [C] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
Only one. Only one.
Only [G] one.
[F] Honestly [D] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ [G] _ [F] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ That's [G] right.
[F] Public Enemy number [D] one.
[Am] 20 years.
[G] _ [F] _ _ _ [D]
It's been [Am] a long and winding road [G] even though [F] time keeps a changing.
I'm gonna [D] bring it all back [Am] home.
I've been told I [G] spit lyrics with politics, [F] why would not?
It says [D] Negro on my birth certificate.
[Am] Born in 1960 in [G] the nation [F] throughout.
I've been a spokesperson [D] for a [Am] generation within the same old fear of a [G] black planet.
[F] 20 years of blood, sweat, no [D] tears for [Am] phonetics.
So damn it.
In times [G] as hard, time [F] is God, understand it.
Never [D] took time for [Am] granted.
It's all right, Ma.
As a [G] child of the [F] 60s, along the watchtower, I can't [D] bet they're gonna [Am] miss me.
I'm only bleeding every grain [G] in me.
[F] Fans, if it's not for you, there'd [D] be no P [Am].E.
From the Nashville [G] skyline to the homeboys and the girls [F] in South Country.
In this [D] world gone wrong, here's another [Am] love song.
Public Enemy number one.
Yeah.
[Em] Public Enemy number [F] one.
Yeah.
Y'all need to stop [D] hating on me.
[Am] Public Enemy number one. Come on.
Public Enemy number [C] one.
Yeah.
20 years.
Public Enemy number [Am] one.
Honestly, y'all [D] need to stop hating on me.
We came a [Am] long way, baby.
You [G] know it's amazing [F] the surprise we told these new guys.
[D] Flavor's always been [Am] crazy.
Hit London [G] 87 like it was an [F] invasion.
Toured the world for [D] three years, a hell of a [A] vocation.
[Am] Vocation of [G] vocalization, especially with the [F] impact of it takes a nation [D] of millions
to hold us back.
[A] You bet [Am] there's blood on them bomb [G] squad tracks.
[F] Let's deal, bass head, [D] party for your right to fight.
[Am] Prophets of rage, breaking noise that [G] don't believe the [F] hype.
Can't do nothing for you, man.
9-1 [D]-1 is a [Am] ghost.
20 years we got here by acting [G] like common [F] folk.
Touring the world like [D] a rolling stone in the [Am] 90s game.
Then we welcome y'all to [G] the terror [F] zone.
Some threw it all away, [D] instead we had something to [Am] say.
Cause the streets still get it up by having [G] no names.
[F] Since Rebel without a pause, [D] the beats were never the [Am] same.
And by 1998, we still [G] had gang.
[F] Rocking [D] on, rocking on, rocking [Am] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] One, only one, only one, [C] only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
[A] Only a [Am] pawn in the game, [G] chastised for naming names.
[F] What was said and who said [D] it, anti-nothing, so [Am] forget it.
Tears of rage [G] left a friend blowing in the wind.
[F] But time has got me [D] back for 10 years in black [Am] again.
Some of them same cats help usher in [G] gangster rap.
[F] Damn, our interviews were [D] better than a lot of them acts.
[Am] Crazy gangster, just love his soul.
[G] Walk up, [F] this went from platinum,
[D] and it shrunk down to gold.
[Am] See the nation produced quite the power, the [G] gen and juice.
[F] Some people gave it up, and they [D] turned it loose.
[Am] They rocked on.
_ [G] _ [F] _ _ [D] Come [A] on.
Only one, only [Em] one, [F] only one.
Y'all just [C] honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one, only one, only one.
Only [G] one, only one, only one.
[A] Honestly, y'all need [D] to stop hating on me.
[Am] Beethoven, Bach, and [G] Brahms.
I want some James Brown, [F] even Bruce Bryan, Bono, [D] Beck.
Yeah, Chuck Berry, [Am] Prince, Stevie Sly, [G] Smokey, Johnny Cash,
and my [F] Chevy.
Heard some call me Uncle [D] Tom.
Now that's petty.
[Am] I'm a songwriter, fool.
[G] I could get cents from right and [F] wrong.
I'm living in the Kia.
[D] Protest song from [Am] basement tapes.
Relying [G] on dollars and cents, changing [F] to the guard spent.
Now where [D] the hell are majors from?
[Am] Most of their time out of [Em] mind, hating my message files.
[F] Can't trust it, shut them [D] down.
Call it what you want it.
[Am] They made a day fit for a [G] king by the time we got to [F] Arizona.
Tomorrow's a long [D] time, got God on our side.
[Am] Over facing drunk beats, [G] hear the good rhymes ride.
[F] There's a poison going on.
[D] There's a shelter from the storm.
[Am] Heartbreak's going to fall, [G] still the people rock on.
[F] We rock on.
Run sweat, [D] no tears.
[Am] Only one, only [Em] one, only one.
[F] Y'all just honestly, y'all need to [D] stop hating on me.
Only one, [Am] only one, only one.
[Cm] [G] Only one.
[Dm] Honestly, y'all need to stop hating on me. Only one.
[Am] _ Only [Em] one.
[F] Honest.
Honestly, [C] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
Only one. Only one.
Only [G] one.
[F] Honestly [D] y'all need to stop hating on me.
Only one.
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