Chords with lyrics
Key: DmDm
🎸 Intro:
Bb majorBb
🎸 Verse :
C majorC DmDm
Free City
Bb majorBb C majorC
This is a shout out to every young brother ya know
DmDm
Thats doin his thing right now keep ya head up
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
Hes walkin the yard wishin he had wings
G minorGm F/AF/A C majorC
Ya know so he could fly up out that joint man
🎸 Chorus:
Bb majorBb C majorC
If I could, fly away
DmDm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb majorBb C majorC
I
I'd turn around
DmDm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb majorBb C majorC
See, now I know
DmDm
Hey, that it won't be easy
G minorGm F/AF/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
C majorC
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard
🎸 Interlude:
G minorGm F/AF/A C majorC
🎸 Verse :
Bb majorBb C majorC
Man, it's the longest yard i ever had to get in my life
DmDm
And see my life ain't right, if my wife don't write
Bb majorBb C majorC
My niggas can't eat if the fish don't bite
DmDm
Might raise the gross sales, like Mike and Ike
Bb majorBb C majorC
Now big brother almighty
DmDm
I keep a gamma ray
I'ma G-5 G+G
Bb majorBb C majorC
Take a G-5 jeep
G-5 deep
DmDm
Too some of their bare feet and thet deep don't speak
Bb majorBb C majorC
Listen maybe they lock it down right herre
DmDm
See body bag and gag and your found right herre
Bb majorBb C majorC
This as serious as it sounds right herre
DmDm
The guards guard the ground, 4 pounds right herre
Bb majorBb C majorC
And they ain't playin, their just lettin you know
DmDm
That anything they want to happen, niggahappen real slow
Bb majorBb C majorC
Get the word from upstairs, put you in that hole
DmDm
I can't take it
I'm justready to go
🎸 Chorus 2:
Bb majorBb C majorC
If I could, fly away
DmDm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb majorBb C majorC
I
I'd turn around
DmDm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb majorBb C majorC
See, now I know
DmDm
Hey, that it won't be easy
G minorGm F/AF/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard
🎸 Interlude:
DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Uh uh, its still the longest yard
DmDm
Um um, its still the longest yard
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far
🎸 Verse 2:
Bb majorBb C majorC
I'm in my cell 20 hours a day
DmDm
And doin push-ups every hour a day
Bb majorBb
Cause I'm tryin to keep the cowards away
C majorC
that's why I'm markin off the calender days
DmDm
Tryin to get out of the way
Bb majorBb C majorC
And im just tryin to keep a piece of mine
DmDm
And I'm gonna shame a motherfucker with a piece of mine
Bb majorBb C majorC
Cause he's tryin to take a piece of mine
DmDm
So im gonna slice his ass a piece at a time
Bb majorBb
But now that they close the door
C majorC DmDm
Lock me in a cell 30 deep but its built for 10
Bb majorBb C majorC
Tell me what kind of world they got you in
DmDm
With the barb wire fences, box you in
Bb majorBb C majorC
From now, till they turn off the lights
DmDm
I'ma read anything in sight
Bb majorBb
Its kinda hard tryin to read at night
C majorC
But I'ma change my life
DmDm
And hope another brother take this flight
🎸 Chorus 3:
Bb majorBb C majorC
If I could, fly away
DmDm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb majorBb C majorC
I
I'd turn around
DmDm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb majorBb C majorC
See, now I know
DmDm
Hey, that it won't be easy
G minorGm F/AF/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard
🎸 Interlude:
DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Uh uh, its still the longest yard
DmDm
Um um, its still the longest yard
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far
🎸 Bridge:
FF
I gotta make it out this place some how
FF
(Oohh no) Man I really believe that i done turne it around
FF
(Oohh no) You see, all I need is that second chance to show
FF
since I crossed the ration, my obligationof rehabilitation
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
(Oohh no) They can punch me high, and they can kick me low
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
(Oohh no) But i mean its gonna take more thatn that for them to break my soul
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm G minorGm
(Oohh no) Man its hard for people to understand what its like to be, gated, incarcerated
F/AF/A C majorC
I just can't take it, but I'ma make it man to see better days
🎸 Chorus 4:
Bb majorBb C majorC
If I could, fly away
DmDm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb majorBb C majorC
I
I'd turn around
DmDm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb majorBb C majorC
See, now I know
DmDm
Hey, that it won't be easy
G minorGm F/AF/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard
🎸 Interlude:
DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
Uh uh, its still the longest yard
DmDm
Um um, its still the longest yard
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
If I could, fly away
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
If I could I turn around
Bb majorBb C majorC DmDm
If I could, fly away