Chords for Yu-Ma / Go Away Little Boy
Tempo:
72.35 bpm
Chords used:
Em
Dm
C
F
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C] [Dm] [Em] [F]
[C] [Dm] [Em] [F]
[C] Le le [Dm] le le le le [Em] le le [F] do la da [C] da da da la [Dm] da da la [Em] da
How [F]
[C] can I [B] express to you the [Em] joy I felt
when [Am] I realized that I had found the perfect man [Em] for me?
[A#] [G] The [Em] man who could make [Dm] me feel all the things I [Em] felt a woman should feel?
[A#] [G] [Em] I said, darling, [F] I want to be the [Em] perfect woman for you.
[Gm] I got [Em] myself a three-year subscription to Essence [Dm] magazine.
Read it [C] from cover to [Em] cover.
You know I wanted [A#] to be perfect [G] for him.
[Em] I [Dm] said, blank is beautiful.
[D] Just keep getting [Em] up.
Together we can make it.
[F] It's [G] going to be all [Em] right.
[F] [G] Forget about what [C] society says is or isn't or [A#] what can or cannot [Em] be.
Keep getting up.
[F]
[Em] He quit his [F] job.
[Dm] [Em] Came home one [F] day with 14 mirrors, [Em] some Afro sheen, some Afro [C] clean, some Afro fluid, some
[Dm] Afro do it to it.
Going to sit in a bit of room and [Em] look at the black beautiful.
[A#] [D] Check out the [Em] boy.
Mother's love.
[Dm] Mother's love.
[Em] [A#] I said, [Em] well, my darling, I [Dm] hate to get in your [F] business, you know what I mean?
[Em] I mean, [F] [G] [Em] what about a job?
What [Am] about the gas and the electricity?
[Em] Well, not that I am [Dm] equating [Bm] a job [Em] with your manhood, you understand, but I [Dm] mean, you did
have a choice in this.
[C] He said, [A#] [D] I got to get [G] myself together.
[Em] [Dm] I'm tired of working for somebody [Em] else.
Maybe [A#] I'll take out a [G] small businessman's loan and [Am] open up a head [Dm] shop.
[E] I said, but that's [G] not bringing no money in.
I mean, he [C] [Dm] said, you're working, ain't you?
[C] Get off my back.
[Dm] [G] [Am] I don't know.
You see, I wasn't raised like that, [C] Joe.
I mean, I figured if I got to [A#] get up and go [G] to work every day, [Em] then every [Dm] able-bodied
in the household [Em] is supposed to get up and go at least [A#] looking.
[Em] Well, I know it ain't easy out there, but [Dm] I said, now, [Em] if for some reason you [A#] feel that
you can no [Em] longer be the man that I thought you were at the beginning of our [Dm] relationship,
[Em] then I got this [F] one thing to lay on you, my [Em] sweet.
[Am]
[Dm] [C] [Dm] Go away, little [C] boy.
[Dm]
[Em] Why [Am] don't you just go away, little boy?
[Dm] You see, I am [Em] not supposed [F] to sit up here alone in the dark with some mirrors and no
money [C] and no shoes.
[Bm] Oh, I
[D] [E] [Am] know, I understand and recognize the fact that your lips, oh, so sweet, but they
don't look like our lips.
[D] You ain't gonna never have another chance to meet.
[Bm] I [Em] think I can find [Am] myself another man, [D] [F] and I know what to do when I got somebody who
can be [G] true.
So why [C] don't you run, run, run, [Dm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, [C] run, run, run, run,
away, little [Dm] boy?
[Em] [Am] Let the door knob hit you where the dogs should have hit you, little boy, [Dm] cause you're [Em] hurting
me more [F]
every minute [C] that you delay.
[Gm]
[C] [F] Cause when you [Am] need me [F] like [G] this, whoa, baby, [Em] you're getting kind of hard [C#] for me to understand.
So my man, [F] just go on away, [Em] just go on away, just go on away, [A] little boy, [F] before I [G] do some
[C] rash.
[D#m]
[C#] Whoa, [F#] run, run, run, [Fm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, little [D#m] boy, [C#] find [F#] yourself another
[Fm] set of blue [A#m] strings, little boy, [D#m] cause you're [Fm] hurting me more [F#] every [G#] minute [C#] that you delay.
[G#m] [C#]
Oh, [F#] when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need
me, [Fm] when you need me, when [D#m] you need me, when you a close up [G#] title like this, [C#] you're getting
just a [F#] little bit too hard for me [Fm] to resist, [A#]
so why don't [D#m] you go on away, little boy, [G#] alright,
[Fm] [D#m] before I [Fm] … [F#] why don't you just leave me [C#] alone, you know what I mean?
go ahead take [D#m] your things with [Fm] you, yes, your [F#] albums and all and [C#] playboy magazine
just go on [D#m] get out of my life [Fm] now don't [F#] stand so close to me when you're
trying to get that last [C#] goodbye kiss I know your moves [D#m] now
[Fm] what did [F#] I told him like that?
[C#] [D#m] and [Fm] don't kiss my eyelids [F#] like that
[C#] and please don't [D#m] suck my earlobes [Fm] like that
and [F#]
[C#] don't, and don't, [D#m] don't
[Fm] oh babe
[F#]
[C#] [D#m] well look
[Fm] you think you can get [F#] a job by Thursday?
[C#] you promise?
[D#m] now you ain't gonna fool me this [Fm] time
then [F#] you might [C#] as well stay
[D#m] [Fm] [F#] stay
[C#] might as well stay
[D#m] [Fm] don't go [F#] away
[C#] [D#m] you can be my man [Fm] one more time
and this time I'm gonna [F#] try harder to sweeten
[C#] this [D#m] time I'm gonna be [Fm] sweeter
[F#]
[C] [Dm] [Em] [F]
[C] Le le [Dm] le le le le [Em] le le [F] do la da [C] da da da la [Dm] da da la [Em] da
How [F]
[C] can I [B] express to you the [Em] joy I felt
when [Am] I realized that I had found the perfect man [Em] for me?
[A#] [G] The [Em] man who could make [Dm] me feel all the things I [Em] felt a woman should feel?
[A#] [G] [Em] I said, darling, [F] I want to be the [Em] perfect woman for you.
[Gm] I got [Em] myself a three-year subscription to Essence [Dm] magazine.
Read it [C] from cover to [Em] cover.
You know I wanted [A#] to be perfect [G] for him.
[Em] I [Dm] said, blank is beautiful.
[D] Just keep getting [Em] up.
Together we can make it.
[F] It's [G] going to be all [Em] right.
[F] [G] Forget about what [C] society says is or isn't or [A#] what can or cannot [Em] be.
Keep getting up.
[F]
[Em] He quit his [F] job.
[Dm] [Em] Came home one [F] day with 14 mirrors, [Em] some Afro sheen, some Afro [C] clean, some Afro fluid, some
[Dm] Afro do it to it.
Going to sit in a bit of room and [Em] look at the black beautiful.
[A#] [D] Check out the [Em] boy.
Mother's love.
[Dm] Mother's love.
[Em] [A#] I said, [Em] well, my darling, I [Dm] hate to get in your [F] business, you know what I mean?
[Em] I mean, [F] [G] [Em] what about a job?
What [Am] about the gas and the electricity?
[Em] Well, not that I am [Dm] equating [Bm] a job [Em] with your manhood, you understand, but I [Dm] mean, you did
have a choice in this.
[C] He said, [A#] [D] I got to get [G] myself together.
[Em] [Dm] I'm tired of working for somebody [Em] else.
Maybe [A#] I'll take out a [G] small businessman's loan and [Am] open up a head [Dm] shop.
[E] I said, but that's [G] not bringing no money in.
I mean, he [C] [Dm] said, you're working, ain't you?
[C] Get off my back.
[Dm] [G] [Am] I don't know.
You see, I wasn't raised like that, [C] Joe.
I mean, I figured if I got to [A#] get up and go [G] to work every day, [Em] then every [Dm] able-bodied
in the household [Em] is supposed to get up and go at least [A#] looking.
[Em] Well, I know it ain't easy out there, but [Dm] I said, now, [Em] if for some reason you [A#] feel that
you can no [Em] longer be the man that I thought you were at the beginning of our [Dm] relationship,
[Em] then I got this [F] one thing to lay on you, my [Em] sweet.
[Am]
[Dm] [C] [Dm] Go away, little [C] boy.
[Dm]
[Em] Why [Am] don't you just go away, little boy?
[Dm] You see, I am [Em] not supposed [F] to sit up here alone in the dark with some mirrors and no
money [C] and no shoes.
[Bm] Oh, I
[D] [E] [Am] know, I understand and recognize the fact that your lips, oh, so sweet, but they
don't look like our lips.
[D] You ain't gonna never have another chance to meet.
[Bm] I [Em] think I can find [Am] myself another man, [D] [F] and I know what to do when I got somebody who
can be [G] true.
So why [C] don't you run, run, run, [Dm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, [C] run, run, run, run,
away, little [Dm] boy?
[Em] [Am] Let the door knob hit you where the dogs should have hit you, little boy, [Dm] cause you're [Em] hurting
me more [F]
every minute [C] that you delay.
[Gm]
[C] [F] Cause when you [Am] need me [F] like [G] this, whoa, baby, [Em] you're getting kind of hard [C#] for me to understand.
So my man, [F] just go on away, [Em] just go on away, just go on away, [A] little boy, [F] before I [G] do some
[C] rash.
[D#m]
[C#] Whoa, [F#] run, run, run, [Fm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, little [D#m] boy, [C#] find [F#] yourself another
[Fm] set of blue [A#m] strings, little boy, [D#m] cause you're [Fm] hurting me more [F#] every [G#] minute [C#] that you delay.
[G#m] [C#]
Oh, [F#] when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need
me, [Fm] when you need me, when [D#m] you need me, when you a close up [G#] title like this, [C#] you're getting
just a [F#] little bit too hard for me [Fm] to resist, [A#]
so why don't [D#m] you go on away, little boy, [G#] alright,
[Fm] [D#m] before I [Fm] … [F#] why don't you just leave me [C#] alone, you know what I mean?
go ahead take [D#m] your things with [Fm] you, yes, your [F#] albums and all and [C#] playboy magazine
just go on [D#m] get out of my life [Fm] now don't [F#] stand so close to me when you're
trying to get that last [C#] goodbye kiss I know your moves [D#m] now
[Fm] what did [F#] I told him like that?
[C#] [D#m] and [Fm] don't kiss my eyelids [F#] like that
[C#] and please don't [D#m] suck my earlobes [Fm] like that
and [F#]
[C#] don't, and don't, [D#m] don't
[Fm] oh babe
[F#]
[C#] [D#m] well look
[Fm] you think you can get [F#] a job by Thursday?
[C#] you promise?
[D#m] now you ain't gonna fool me this [Fm] time
then [F#] you might [C#] as well stay
[D#m] [Fm] [F#] stay
[C#] might as well stay
[D#m] [Fm] don't go [F#] away
[C#] [D#m] you can be my man [Fm] one more time
and this time I'm gonna [F#] try harder to sweeten
[C#] this [D#m] time I'm gonna be [Fm] sweeter
[F#]
Key:
Em
Dm
C
F
C#
Em
Dm
C
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _
[C] Le le [Dm] le le le le [Em] le le [F] do la da [C] da da da la [Dm] da da la [Em] da
How [F] _ _
[C] can I [B] express to you the [Em] joy I felt
when [Am] I realized that I had found the perfect man [Em] for me?
[A#] [G] The [Em] man who could make [Dm] me feel all the things I [Em] felt a woman should feel?
[A#] _ [G] [Em] I said, darling, [F] I want to be the [Em] perfect woman for you.
[Gm] I got [Em] myself a three-year subscription to Essence [Dm] magazine.
Read it [C] from cover to [Em] cover.
You know I wanted [A#] to be perfect [G] for him.
[Em] I [Dm] said, blank is beautiful.
[D] Just keep getting [Em] up.
Together we can make it.
[F] It's [G] going to be all [Em] right.
_ [F] [G] Forget about what [C] society says is or isn't or [A#] what can or cannot [Em] be.
Keep getting up.
[F] _ _
[Em] He quit his [F] job.
[Dm] _ [Em] Came home one [F] day with 14 mirrors, [Em] some Afro sheen, some Afro [C] clean, some Afro fluid, some
[Dm] Afro do it to it.
Going to sit in a bit of room and [Em] look at the black beautiful.
[A#] [D] Check out the [Em] boy.
Mother's love.
[Dm] Mother's love. _
[Em] _ [A#] I said, [Em] well, my darling, I [Dm] hate to get in your [F] business, you know what I mean?
[Em] I mean, [F] _ [G] [Em] what about a job?
What [Am] about the gas and the electricity?
[Em] Well, not that I am [Dm] equating [Bm] a job [Em] with your manhood, you understand, but I [Dm] mean, you did
have a choice in this.
[C] He said, [A#] [D] I got to get [G] myself together.
[Em] [Dm] I'm tired of working for somebody [Em] else.
Maybe [A#] I'll take out a [G] small businessman's loan and [Am] open up a head [Dm] shop.
_ [E] I said, but that's [G] not bringing no money in.
I mean, he [C] _ [Dm] said, you're working, ain't you?
[C] Get off my back.
_ [Dm] _ [G] _ [Am] I don't know.
You see, I wasn't raised like that, [C] Joe.
I mean, I figured if I got to [A#] get up and go [G] to work every day, [Em] then every [Dm] able-bodied
in the household [Em] is supposed to get up and go at least [A#] looking.
[Em] Well, I know it ain't easy out there, but [Dm] I said, now, [Em] if for some reason you [A#] feel that
you can no [Em] longer be the man that I thought you were at the beginning of our [Dm] relationship,
_ [Em] then I got this [F] one thing to lay on you, my [Em] sweet.
_ [Am] _
[Dm] _ [C] _ [Dm] Go away, little [C] boy.
_ [Dm]
[Em] Why [Am] don't you just go away, little boy? _ _
[Dm] You see, I am [Em] not supposed [F] to sit up here alone in the dark with some mirrors and no
money [C] and no shoes.
[Bm] Oh, I _
[D] _ [E] [Am] know, I understand and recognize the fact that your lips, oh, so sweet, but they
don't look like our lips.
[D] You ain't gonna never have another chance to meet.
[Bm] I [Em] think I can find [Am] myself another man, [D] _ [F] and I know what to do when I got somebody who
can be [G] true.
So why [C] don't you run, run, run, [Dm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, [C] run, run, run, run,
away, little [Dm] boy?
[Em] _ [Am] Let the door knob hit you where the dogs should have hit you, little boy, _ [Dm] cause you're [Em] hurting
me more [F] _
every minute [C] that you delay.
_ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ [F] Cause when you [Am] need me _ [F] like [G] this, whoa, baby, [Em] you're getting kind of hard [C#] for me to understand.
So my man, [F] just go on away, [Em] just go on away, just go on away, [A] little boy, [F] before I [G] do some
_ [C] rash.
[D#m] _ _
[C#] Whoa, _ [F#] run, run, run, [Fm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, little [D#m] boy, _ [C#] find [F#] yourself another
[Fm] set of blue [A#m] strings, little boy, [D#m] cause you're [Fm] hurting me more [F#] every [G#] minute [C#] that you delay.
_ _ [G#m] _ _ [C#]
Oh, [F#] when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need
me, [Fm] when you need me, when [D#m] you need me, when you a close up [G#] title like this, [C#] you're getting
just a [F#] little bit too hard for me [Fm] to resist, [A#]
so why don't [D#m] you go on away, little boy, _ [G#] alright, _
[Fm] _ [D#m] before I [Fm] … [F#] why don't you just leave me [C#] alone, you know what I mean?
go ahead take [D#m] your things with [Fm] you, yes, your [F#] albums and all and [C#] playboy magazine
just go on [D#m] get out of my life [Fm] now don't [F#] stand so close to me when you're
trying to get that last [C#] goodbye kiss I know your moves [D#m] now
[Fm] what did [F#] I told him like that?
[C#] _ _ [D#m] and [Fm] don't kiss my eyelids [F#] like that _
[C#] and please don't [D#m] suck my earlobes [Fm] like that
and _ [F#] _
[C#] don't, and don't, [D#m] don't
[Fm] oh babe
[F#] _ _
[C#] _ [D#m] well look
[Fm] you think you can get [F#] a job by Thursday?
[C#] you promise?
[D#m] now you ain't gonna fool me this [Fm] time
then [F#] you might [C#] as well stay
[D#m] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [F#] stay
[C#] might as well stay
[D#m] _ [Fm] don't go [F#] away
[C#] _ [D#m] you can be my man [Fm] one more time
and this time I'm gonna [F#] try harder to sweeten
[C#] this [D#m] time I'm gonna be [Fm] sweeter
_ [F#] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _
[C] Le le [Dm] le le le le [Em] le le [F] do la da [C] da da da la [Dm] da da la [Em] da
How [F] _ _
[C] can I [B] express to you the [Em] joy I felt
when [Am] I realized that I had found the perfect man [Em] for me?
[A#] [G] The [Em] man who could make [Dm] me feel all the things I [Em] felt a woman should feel?
[A#] _ [G] [Em] I said, darling, [F] I want to be the [Em] perfect woman for you.
[Gm] I got [Em] myself a three-year subscription to Essence [Dm] magazine.
Read it [C] from cover to [Em] cover.
You know I wanted [A#] to be perfect [G] for him.
[Em] I [Dm] said, blank is beautiful.
[D] Just keep getting [Em] up.
Together we can make it.
[F] It's [G] going to be all [Em] right.
_ [F] [G] Forget about what [C] society says is or isn't or [A#] what can or cannot [Em] be.
Keep getting up.
[F] _ _
[Em] He quit his [F] job.
[Dm] _ [Em] Came home one [F] day with 14 mirrors, [Em] some Afro sheen, some Afro [C] clean, some Afro fluid, some
[Dm] Afro do it to it.
Going to sit in a bit of room and [Em] look at the black beautiful.
[A#] [D] Check out the [Em] boy.
Mother's love.
[Dm] Mother's love. _
[Em] _ [A#] I said, [Em] well, my darling, I [Dm] hate to get in your [F] business, you know what I mean?
[Em] I mean, [F] _ [G] [Em] what about a job?
What [Am] about the gas and the electricity?
[Em] Well, not that I am [Dm] equating [Bm] a job [Em] with your manhood, you understand, but I [Dm] mean, you did
have a choice in this.
[C] He said, [A#] [D] I got to get [G] myself together.
[Em] [Dm] I'm tired of working for somebody [Em] else.
Maybe [A#] I'll take out a [G] small businessman's loan and [Am] open up a head [Dm] shop.
_ [E] I said, but that's [G] not bringing no money in.
I mean, he [C] _ [Dm] said, you're working, ain't you?
[C] Get off my back.
_ [Dm] _ [G] _ [Am] I don't know.
You see, I wasn't raised like that, [C] Joe.
I mean, I figured if I got to [A#] get up and go [G] to work every day, [Em] then every [Dm] able-bodied
in the household [Em] is supposed to get up and go at least [A#] looking.
[Em] Well, I know it ain't easy out there, but [Dm] I said, now, [Em] if for some reason you [A#] feel that
you can no [Em] longer be the man that I thought you were at the beginning of our [Dm] relationship,
_ [Em] then I got this [F] one thing to lay on you, my [Em] sweet.
_ [Am] _
[Dm] _ [C] _ [Dm] Go away, little [C] boy.
_ [Dm]
[Em] Why [Am] don't you just go away, little boy? _ _
[Dm] You see, I am [Em] not supposed [F] to sit up here alone in the dark with some mirrors and no
money [C] and no shoes.
[Bm] Oh, I _
[D] _ [E] [Am] know, I understand and recognize the fact that your lips, oh, so sweet, but they
don't look like our lips.
[D] You ain't gonna never have another chance to meet.
[Bm] I [Em] think I can find [Am] myself another man, [D] _ [F] and I know what to do when I got somebody who
can be [G] true.
So why [C] don't you run, run, run, [Dm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, [C] run, run, run, run,
away, little [Dm] boy?
[Em] _ [Am] Let the door knob hit you where the dogs should have hit you, little boy, _ [Dm] cause you're [Em] hurting
me more [F] _
every minute [C] that you delay.
_ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ [F] Cause when you [Am] need me _ [F] like [G] this, whoa, baby, [Em] you're getting kind of hard [C#] for me to understand.
So my man, [F] just go on away, [Em] just go on away, just go on away, [A] little boy, [F] before I [G] do some
_ [C] rash.
[D#m] _ _
[C#] Whoa, _ [F#] run, run, run, [Fm] run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, little [D#m] boy, _ [C#] find [F#] yourself another
[Fm] set of blue [A#m] strings, little boy, [D#m] cause you're [Fm] hurting me more [F#] every [G#] minute [C#] that you delay.
_ _ [G#m] _ _ [C#]
Oh, [F#] when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need me, when you need
me, [Fm] when you need me, when [D#m] you need me, when you a close up [G#] title like this, [C#] you're getting
just a [F#] little bit too hard for me [Fm] to resist, [A#]
so why don't [D#m] you go on away, little boy, _ [G#] alright, _
[Fm] _ [D#m] before I [Fm] … [F#] why don't you just leave me [C#] alone, you know what I mean?
go ahead take [D#m] your things with [Fm] you, yes, your [F#] albums and all and [C#] playboy magazine
just go on [D#m] get out of my life [Fm] now don't [F#] stand so close to me when you're
trying to get that last [C#] goodbye kiss I know your moves [D#m] now
[Fm] what did [F#] I told him like that?
[C#] _ _ [D#m] and [Fm] don't kiss my eyelids [F#] like that _
[C#] and please don't [D#m] suck my earlobes [Fm] like that
and _ [F#] _
[C#] don't, and don't, [D#m] don't
[Fm] oh babe
[F#] _ _
[C#] _ [D#m] well look
[Fm] you think you can get [F#] a job by Thursday?
[C#] you promise?
[D#m] now you ain't gonna fool me this [Fm] time
then [F#] you might [C#] as well stay
[D#m] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [F#] stay
[C#] might as well stay
[D#m] _ [Fm] don't go [F#] away
[C#] _ [D#m] you can be my man [Fm] one more time
and this time I'm gonna [F#] try harder to sweeten
[C#] this [D#m] time I'm gonna be [Fm] sweeter
_ [F#] _ _