Key: E
Introduction: C#m E E
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Why you wanna tell me how to live my life?
C#m E A5(9) B5(9)
Who are you to tell me if it's black or white?
C#m
Momma, can you hear me? Try to understand
E
Is innocence the difference 'tween a boy and a man
F#m
My daddy lived a lie, that's just the price that he paid
A5(9)
Sacrificed his life, just slaving away
C#m A5(9) E
Oh, if there's one thing I hang onto
B5(9)
That gets me thru the night
C#m A5(9) E
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to
B5(9)
I'm gonna live my life
C#m A5(9)
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice
E
Standing on the ledge,
B5(9)
I'll show the wind how to fly
F#m
When the world gets in my face
A5(9)
I say...
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Have a nice day
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Have a nice day!
C#m E A5(9) B5(9)
Take a look around you, nothing's what it seems
C#m E A5(9) B5(9)
We're living in a broken home of hopes and dreams
C#m
Let me be the first to shake a helping hand
E
Anybody brave enough to take a stand
F#m
I've knocked on every door, on every dead end street
A5(9)
Looking for forgiveness and what's left to believe
C#m A5(9) E
Oh, if there's one thing I hang onto
B5(9)
That gets me thru the night
C#m A5(9) E
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to
B5(9)
I'm gonna live my life
C#m A5(9)
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice
E
Standing on the ledge,
B5(9)
I'll show the wind how to fly
F#m
When the world gets in my face
A5(9)
I say...
C#m E A5(9) E
Have a nice day
B5(9) C#m E A5(9) E B5(9)
Have a nice day!
C#m A5(9) E
Oh, if there's one thing I hang onto
B5(9)
That gets me thru the night
C#m A5(9) E
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to
B5(9)
I'm gonna live my life
C#m A5(9)
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice
E
Standing on the ledge,
B5(9)
I'll show the wind how to fly
F#m
When the world gets in my face
A5(9)
I say...
C#m E A5(9) E
Have a nice day!
B5(9) C#m E A5(9) E
Have a nice day!
B5(9) C#m E A5(9) E B5(9)
When the world keeps trying to drag me down
C#m E
gotta raise my hands,
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gonna stand my ground I say, hey
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Have a nice day!
B5(9)
Have a nice day!