Fly Away chords by Nelly

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Dm

🎸 Intro:

Bb




🎸 Verse :

C     Dm
Free City
     Bb            C
This is a shout out to every young brother ya know
   Dm
Thats doin his thing right now keep ya head up
  Bb     C         Dm
Hes walkin the yard wishin he had wings
  Gm        F/A       C
Ya know so he could fly up out that joint man

🎸 Chorus:

      Bb  C
If I could, fly away
Dm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb      C
I
I'd turn around
Dm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb     C
See, now I know
Dm
Hey, that it won't be easy
    Gm               F/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
    C
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard


🎸 Interlude:

Gm F/A C




🎸 Verse :

       Bb             C
Man, it's the longest yard i ever had to get in my life
      Dm
And see my life ain't right, if my wife don't write
  Bb           C
My niggas can't eat if the fish don't bite
   Dm
Might raise the gross sales, like Mike and Ike
  Bb      C
Now big brother almighty
 Dm
I keep a gamma ray
I'ma G-5 G
    Bb    C
Take a G-5 jeep
G-5 deep
     Dm
Too some of their bare feet and thet deep don't speak
Bb            C
Listen maybe they lock it down right herre
  Dm
See body bag and gag and your found right herre
Bb          C
This as serious as it sounds right herre
  Dm
The guards guard the ground, 4 pounds right herre
  Bb              C
And they ain't playin, their just lettin you know
   Dm
That anything they want to happen, niggahappen real slow
    Bb             C
Get the word from upstairs, put you in that hole
    Dm
I can't take it
I'm justready to go


🎸 Chorus 2:

      Bb  C
If I could, fly away
Dm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb      C
I
I'd turn around
Dm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb     C
See, now I know
Dm
Hey, that it won't be easy
    Gm               F/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
    C                    Bb  C
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard


🎸 Interlude:

Dm                Bb  C
Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
Dm              Bb  C
Uh uh, its still the longest yard
Dm
Um um, its still the longest yard
Bb                  C        Dm
I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far


🎸 Verse 2:

Bb        C
I'm in my cell 20 hours a day
     Dm
And doin push-ups every hour a day
              Bb
Cause I'm tryin to keep the cowards away
        C
that's why I'm markin off the calender days
Dm
Tryin to get out of the way
Bb             C
And im just tryin to keep a piece of mine
       Dm
And I'm gonna shame a motherfucker with a piece of mine
      Bb            C
Cause he's tryin to take a piece of mine
              Dm
So im gonna slice his ass a piece at a time
         Bb
But now that they close the door
C      Dm
Lock me in a cell 30 deep but its built for 10
    Bb           C
Tell me what kind of world they got you in
     Dm
With the barb wire fences, box you in
Bb         C
From now, till they turn off the lights
   Dm
I'ma read anything in sight
            Bb
Its kinda hard tryin to read at night
     C
But I'ma change my life
     Dm
And hope another brother take this flight


🎸 Chorus 3:

      Bb  C
If I could, fly away
Dm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb      C
I
I'd turn around
Dm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb     C
See, now I know
Dm
Hey, that it won't be easy
    Gm               F/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
    C                    Bb  C
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard


🎸 Interlude:

Dm                Bb  C
Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
Dm              Bb  C
Uh uh, its still the longest yard
Dm
Um um, its still the longest yard
Bb                  C        Dm
I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far


🎸 Bridge:

F
I gotta make it out this place some how
F
(Oohh no) Man I really believe that i done turne it around
F
(Oohh no) You see, all I need is that second chance to show
F
since I crossed the ration, my obligationof rehabilitation
Bb C Dm
(Oohh no) They can punch me high, and they can kick me low
Bb C Dm
(Oohh no) But i mean its gonna take more thatn that for them to break my soul
Bb  C Dm                              Gm
(Oohh no) Man its hard for people to understand what its like to be, gated, incarcerated
F/A               C
I just can't take it, but I'ma make it man to see better days


🎸 Chorus 4:

      Bb  C
If I could, fly away
Dm
Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
Bb      C
I
I'd turn around
Dm
Just to see you for the last time
Bb     C
See, now I know
Dm
Hey, that it won't be easy
    Gm               F/A
I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
    C                    Bb  C
I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard


🎸 Interlude:

Dm                Bb  C
Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
Dm              Bb  C
Uh uh, its still the longest yard
Dm
Um um, its still the longest yard
Bb                  C        Dm
I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far
      Bb  C   Dm
If I could, fly away
     Bb   C    Dm
If I could I turn around
      Bb  C  Dm
If I could, fly away