Gangsta’s Paradise

Gangsta’s Paradise: Chords

Intro:
LAb   FAm   SOL   DOm   LAb   FAm   SOL   DOm

     LAb                            SIb9       LAb6
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
         SOL
I take a look at my life 
       DOm
and realize there's nothin' left
       LAb                    SIb9         LAb6
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
SOL                          DOm
Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
            LAb
But I ain't never crossed a man 
         FAm
that didn't deserve it
      SOL
Me be treated like a punk, 
       DOm
you know that's unheard of
    LAb                        FAm
You better watch how you talkin' 

and where you walkin'
   SOL                          DOm
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
  LAb                        FAm
I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc
        SOL                        DOm
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke
      LAb                        FAm
Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
      SOL
On my knees in the night, 
       DOm
sayin' prayers in the streetlight

LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

     LAb                   FAm
Look at the situation they got me facing
        SOL
I can't live a normal life, 
      DOm
I was raised by the street
     LAb                    FAm
So I gotta be down with the hood team
         SOL                       
Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams
      LAb                    FAm
I'm a educated fool with money on my mind
       SOL                  DOm
Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
      LAb                 FAm
I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger
       SOL                       DOm
And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger
      LAb                       FAm
Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away
           SOL             DOm
I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?
    LAb               FAm
I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?
    SOL                         DOm
The way things is going I don't know

        LAb     FAm   SOL      DOm
Tell me why are we so blind to see
         LAb     FAm      SOL     DOm
That the ones we hurt are you and me?

LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

LAb                  FAm
Power and the money, money and the power
SOL                  DOm
Minute after minute, hour after hour
LAb                      FAm
Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'
           SOL
It's going on in the kitchen, 
    DOm
but I don't know what's cookin'
     LAb
They say I gotta learn, 
      FAm
but nobody's here to teach me
   SOL                       DOm
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?
LAb                    FAm
 I guess they can't, I guess they won't
             SOL
I guess they front, 
                     DOm
that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
LAb            SIb9       LAb6
 Been spendin' most their lives
       SOL            DOm
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

        LAb     SIb9 LAb6 SOL      DOm
Tell me why are we     so blind to see
         LAb     SIb9 LAb6  SOL     DOm
That the ones we hurt   are you and me?
        LAb     SIb9 LAb6 SOL      DOm
Tell me why are we     so blind to see
         LAb     SIb9 LAb6  SOL     DOm
That the ones we hurt   are you and me?...

LAb    SIb9 LAb6 SOL    DOm

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Gangsta's Paradise è un brano scritto e inciso da Coolio, all'anagrafe Artis Leon Ivey Jr, contenuto nell'album omonimo pubblicato nel 1995. Secondo lavoro in studio per il rapper della Pennsylvania, segna l'apice della sua carriera musicale prima di dedicarsi anche alla recitazione in parti secondarie di film americani. La canzone è senza dubbio il suo pezzo più rappresentativo; primo singolo estratto, prende spunto da Pastime Paradise di Stevie Wonder per denunciare l'emarginazione delle periferie. Un caposaldo del rap!

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).