Gangsta's Paradise Chords by Coolio

[Start]

[Intro]
Ab F G C Ab F
■  ■ ■ ■ ■  ■
G G7 C
■ ■  ■


[Verse]
     Ab                             Bb             
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
         G7                  Eb                          
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
Ab                            Bb              
'cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long
     G7                        Cm             
That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
            Ab                       F                
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
      G7             G        C                     
Me be treated like a punk You know that's unheard of
Ab                       F                            
You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'
   G                            C             
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
  Ab                        F        
I really hate to trip but I gotta loc
        G                         C           
As they croak I see myself in the pistol smoke
Ab                              F                   
Fool I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
      G            G7           Cm                        
On my knees in the night sayin' prayers in the streetlight


[Chorus]
Ab                 Bb              
They been spending most their lives
G7          G         Eb      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Ab                                 
They been spending most their lives
G7          G         G7      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Ab                  Bb            
■  We keep spending most our lives
G7                    Cm      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
   Ab            Bb            
We keep spending most our lives
G                             
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise


[Verse]
            Ab                          
Look at the situation they got me facin'
  G7                         C7                     
I can't live a normal life I was raised by the state
     Ab                              
So I gotta be down with the hood team
         Ab                                       
Too much television watching got me chasing dreams
                         F               
I'm a educated fool with money on my mind
       G         G7         C              
Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
      Ab                F                  
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
       G         G7            C              
And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger
Ab                             F              
Fool death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away
           G              C             
I'm livin' life do or die what can I say
Ab                             F                     
I'm twentythree now but will I live to see twentyfour
    G                     C         
The way things is going I don't know


[Chorus]
     Ab         F     G7       C  
Tell me why are we so blind to see
              Ab          F     G   C 
That the ones we hurt are ■ you and me
Ab                 Bb              
They been spending most their lives
G7          G         Eb      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Ab                 Bb              
They been spending most their lives
G                     Eb      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Ab               Bb            
We keep spending most our lives
G7          G         Cm      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Ab               Bb            
We keep spending most our lives
G                             
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise


[Verse]
Ab                  F                  
Power and the money money and the power
G                   C              
Minute after minute hour after hour
Ab                  F                             
Everybody's running but half of them ain't lookin'
     G7              G       Cm                             
It's going on in the kitchen but I don't know what's cookin'
     Ab                                              
They say I got to learn but nobody's here to teach me
G7                          C                    
If they can't understand it how can they reach me
Ab                   F               
I guess they can't I guess they won't
             G                          Cm                  Ab  
I guess they front that's why I know my life is out of luck fool


[Chorus]
                   Bb              
They been spending most their lives
G                     Cm      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
     Ab            Bb              
They been spending most their lives
G7          G         Cm      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
   Ab            Bb            
We keep spending most our lives
G7          G         Cm      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
   Ab            Bb            
We keep spending most our lives
G                     Cm      
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
        Ab      Bb    G        Cm 
Tell me why are we so blind to see
         Ab               G7      Cm
That the ones we hurt are you and me
        Ab      Bb    G7    G  Cm 
Tell me why are we so blind to see
         Ab   Bb      G7  G   Cm  Ab Bb G Eb Ab Bb G Eb N.C.
That the ones we hurt are you and ■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■  ■ ■  me  


[Outro]

[End]