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Living For The City

Stevie Wonder

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...LIVING FOR THE CITY... by Stevie Wonder  from Innervisions
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*CAPO 3rd FRET*

(Original Key: G)

Intro:

E F# G F# (x4)

Verse 1:

E             F#    G                F#
 A boy is born   in hard time Missis-sippi
E             F#    G                   F#
 Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty
E                F#   G           F#
 His parents give him love and af-fection
E                  F#      G               F#
 To keep him strong moving in the right di-rection

Chorus 1:

       A           B                    E   F# G  F#
Living just enough, just enough for the city...ee ha!

Verse 2:

E                F#    G                 F#
 His father works some days for fourteen hours
E               F#  G              F# 
 And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
E               F#  G                    F#
 His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
E                      F#   G             F#
 And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny

Chorus 2:

       A           B                    E   F# G  F#
Living just enough, just enough for the city...ee ha!

Middle 8:

E         E7           A7
 Da ba da da, da da da da
C                  Bb
 Da da da da da da da
Bb7       G
 Da da da da
F            E
 Da da da da da

Verse 3:

E                 F#    G               F#
 His sister's black but she is sho'nuff pretty
E                 F#    G                 F#
 Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy
E                F#      G             F#
 To walk to school she's got to get up early
E                 F#     G              F#
 Her clothes are old but never are they dirty

Chorus 3:

       A           B                    E   F# G  F#
Living just enough, just enough for the city...um hum

Verse 4:

E                  F#     G                   F#
 Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many
E                  F#    G                  F#
 His patience's long but soon he won't have any
E             F#  G               F#
 To find a job is like a haystack needle
E                  F#      G                  F#
 Cause where he lives they don't use colored people

Chorus 4:

       A           B                    E   F# G  F#
Living just enough, just enough for the city...

Middle 8 (2):

E         E7           A7
 Da ba da da, da da da da
C                  Bb
 Da da da da da da da
Bb7       G
 Da da da da
F            E
 Da da da da da

Coda:

E       F#     G               F#
 Living just e-nough...For the city... yeah
E       F#     G               F#
 Living just e-nough...For the city...

(Repeat several Times)

Verse 5:

E                F#    G                 F#
 His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
E                  F#           G                   F#
 He spends his life walking the streets of New York City
E                F#    G                    F#
 He's almost dead from breathing in air pol-lution
E                F#      G                 F#
 He tried to vote but to him there's no so-lution
 
Chorus 5:

       A                  B             E   F# G  F#
Living just enough, just enough for the city...
yeah, yeah, yeah!

Verse 6:

E               F#  G                F#
 I hope you hear in-side my voice of sorrow
E                     F#      G               F#
 And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow
E                  F#   G                   F#
 This place is cruel no where could be much colder
E                  F#   G                  F#
 If we don't change the world will soon be over

Chorus 6:

       A                        B                   E       F# G  F#
Living just enough, stop giving just enough for the city!!!!

Middle 8 (3):

E         E7           A7
 Da ba da da, da da da da
C                  Bb
 Da da da da da da da
Bb7       G
 Da da da da
F            E
 Da da da da da


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   E       F#      G        A      B       E7      A7      C       
 
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  
 022100  244322  355433  x02220  x24442  020100  x02223  x32010  

   Bb      Bb7      F    

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  
 x13331  x13131  133211  


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)

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Living For The City

Stevie Wonder