Tom: Dm
Introdução: Bb
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
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
Gm F/A C
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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