Yellow Brick Road Chords by Eminem

[Start]

[Chorus]
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■  What we have to do is deal with it when these individuals are young enough if you will to be
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saved not in a religious sense but not to constitute what this country at times calls their
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throwaway children
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We seem to be approaching an age of the gross
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We all have this idea that we should move up a little bit from our parents' station and eachand
                                             
each generation should do a little bit better


[Verse]
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All right come on let's cut the bullshit enough
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Let's get it started let's start addressin' this issue and open it up
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Let's take this shit back to the basement and we can discuss
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Statements that's made on this tape and its whole origin of
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The music that we all know and love the music we all enjoy
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The music you accuse me of tryin' to destroy
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Let's rewind it to 'eightynine when I was a boy
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On the East Side of Detroit crossin' eight Mile into Warren
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Into hick territory I'd like to share a story
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This is my story and can't nobody tell it for me
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You have well informed me I am wellaware
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That I don't belong here: you've made that perfectly clear
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I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
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From BelAire shopping center just for stoppin' in there
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From the black side all the way to the white side
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Okay there's a bright side a day that I might slide
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You may call it a pass I call it haulin' my ass
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Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks
D7      Am                       E7             
Oh them railroad tracks them old railroad tracks
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Them good old notorious so well known tracks


[Chorus]
                            Am               
So let's go back follow the yellow brick road
                    Am7    
As we go on another episode
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Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
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That I once used to call home sweet home
                                 Am7              
Come on let's go back follow the yellow brick road
                    Am7    
As we go on another episode
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Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
E7                  A7              Am  
That I once used to call home sweet home


[Verse]
                                              Am     
I'd roam the streets so much they called me a drifter
                                       Am       
Sometimes I'd stick up a thumb just to hitchhike
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Just to get picked up to get me a lift to
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Eight Mile and Van Dyke or steal a goddamn bike
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From somebody's backyard and drop it off at the park
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That was the halfway mark to meet Kim had to walk
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Back to her mama's on Chalmers after dark
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To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my mom's
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That's about the time I first met Proof
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With Goofy Gary on the steps at Osborn handin' out some flyers
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We was doin' some talent shows at Center Line High
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I told him to stop by and check us out sometime
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He looked at me like I'm out my mind
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Shook his head like White boys don't know how to rhyme
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I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
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And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
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We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit
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Where compound syllables sound combined
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From that day we was down to ride
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Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line


[Chorus]
                            Am               
So let's go back follow the yellow brick road
      A7            Am7    
As we go on another episode
A7                                               D           
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
                                    D   
That I once used to call home sweet home
                                 D                
Come on let's go back follow the yellow brick road
      Am7                   A7
As we go on another episode ■ 
                                                 Esus4       
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
E7          A7                      Am  
That I once used to call home sweet home


[Verse]
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My first year in nineth grade can't forget that day at school
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It was cool 'til your man MC Shan came through
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He said that Puma's the brand ‘cause the Klan makes Troops
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It was rumors but man goddamn they flew
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Musta been true because man we done banned they shoes
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I had the new ones the Cool J Ice Lamb suede too
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But we just threw 'em in the trash like they yesterday's news
          A7                  Am          
Guess who came through next X Clan debuted
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Professor X
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Exist in a state of red black and green with a key sissies
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Now with this bein' the new trend we don't fit in
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Crackas is out with Cactus Albums blackness is in
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African symbols and medallions represent Black Power
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And we ain't know what it meant me and my man Howard
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And Butter would go to the mall
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With 'em all over our necks like we're showin' 'em off
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Not knowin' at all we was bein' laughed at
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You ain't even half black
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You ain't 'posed to have that homie let me grab that
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And that Flavor Flav clock we gon' have to snatch that
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All I remember is meetin' back at
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Manix's basement sayin' how we hate this
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How racist but dope the X Clan's tape is
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Which reminds me back in 'eightynine me
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And Kim broke up for the first time she was tryin' to twotime me
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And there was this black girl at our school who thought I was cool
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‘cause I rapped so she was kinda eyein' me
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And oh the irony guess what her name was
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Ain't even gonna say it plus
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The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts
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And a pair of jugs the bombest goddamn girl in our whole school
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If I could pull her not only would I become more popular
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But I would be able to piss Kim off at the same time
       Am       
But it backfired
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I was supposed to dump her but she dumped me for this black guy
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And that's the last I ever seen or heard
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Or spoke to the Ole Foolish Pride girl but I've heard
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People say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad
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But it was: I singled out a whole race
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And for that I apologize I was wrong
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‘cause no matter what color a girl is she's still a


[Chorus]
                            Am               
So let's go back follow the yellow brick road
      Am7                  
As we go on another episode
                A7                                           
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
                                    Am  
That I once used to call home sweet home
                                 Am               
Come on let's go back follow the yellow brick road
                    Am7    
As we go on another episode
                                                 Esus4       
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
E7                                  Em7 
That I once used to call home sweet home
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Fuck out of my house you fuckin' pieces of shit
             Am                               
Get the fuck out of my house you stupid fucker
Am                
You son of a bitch


[Outro]
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