How You Gonna Tell Me Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]See,[Dm][Am][Em][Am]
[Dm]ever[Em]y[Am]
time me and my man [Dm]get into a [Am]fight
This girl is [Em]giving her advice
[Am]She wanna say he ain't no good
[Dm]an d she think I should
Get an[Em]other man in my life
[Am]But I don't see how she gon' tell me[Dm]
What [Am]she think a [Em]man should
or should not [Am]be
'Cause her love life ain't right,
she [Dm]needs to get it tight
Before [Em]she be steppin' t[Am]o me

[Verse 2]
Now [Am]come on,
if you've been di[Dm]vorced more than [Am]twice
And you [Em]wanna give advice 'bout my [Am]love life,
oh no
You can just [Dm]for get that,
I don't need [Em]that
So you can just [Am]go ahead
and keep that
And if you always [Dm]lookin' a [Am]mess
But [Em]yet you wanna tell me
how to [Am]dress, oh no
I don't wanna [Dm]hear that,
[Am]I won't take tha[Em]t
So you can just [Am]go ahead
and save that
At least if you were gonna try and [Dm]give advice

[Verse 3]
[Em]
About my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me
[Em]So please, how you gonna [Am]tell me?

[Verse 4]
At [Am]least if you were gonna
try and [Dm]give advice
[Em]About my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me
[Em]So please, how you gonna [Am]tell me?

[Verse 5]
Tell me [Am]why do I find that the b[Dm]lind
Is always [Em]try ing to lead the [Am]blind?
They always got something
to say every [Dm]day
[Am]About [Em]the way you do your [Am]thing
But I don't see how they gon'
tell [Dm]me what I need
Or [Em]how I need to be
[Am]'Cause if they ain't doing
what I wanna do
[Dm]Living like I [Am]wanna live
[Em]I don't wanna he[Am]ar it

[Verse 6]
Now [Am]come on, if you've been di
[Dm]vorced more than [Am]twice
And you [Em]wanna give advice
'bout my [Am]love life, oh no
You can just forget that,
I don't need [Em]that
So you can just [Am]go ahead
and keep that
And if you always lookin' a mess
But [Em]yet you wanna tell me [Am]how to dress, oh no
I don't wanna [Dm]hear that,
[Am]I won't take [Em]that
So you can just [Am]go ahead

[Verse 7]
and save that
[Am]At least if you were gonna try and
[Dm]give advice (give advice)
[Em]About my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
(get your own shit right)
'Cause you ain't even
livin' what you [Dm]preach to me
So [Em]please, how you gonna
[Am]tell me? (Tell me)

[Verse 8]
[Am]At least if you were gonna
try and [Dm]give advice
[Em]About my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me
[Em]So please, how you gonna
[Am]tell me?

[Verse 9]
You 'bout to [Dm]lose your house
and your ride too
'Cause you [Am]don't handle
business like you should do
[Dm]But you know h[Em]ow to fix
my [Am]thing (my thing)
You [Dm]dropped out of school in eleventh
grade (eleventh grade)
[Am]Strippin' every day just
so you could get paid
[E]But you [Am]know [Em]how to fix my thing[E]
How you gon[Am]na te[Dm]ll me,
[Em]me? [Am]Yeah
[Dm]
[Em]Whoa, [Am]yeah

[Verse 10]
[Am]At least if you were gonna try and
[Dm]give advice (give advice)
[Em]About my life
Have your own shit right (get your
[Am]own shit right)
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me (yeah)
So [Em]please, how you gonna [Am]tell me?
At least if you were gonna
try and give advice
[Em]About my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me
So [Em]please, how you gonna [Am]tell me?

[Verse 11]
At [Am]least if you were gonna
try [Dm]and give advice
[Em]About my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me
[Em]So please,
how you gonna [Am]tell me? (Yeah)

[Verse 12]
At [Am]least if you were gonna try and give [Dm]ad
vice (how you gonna tell me?)
About [Em]my life
Have your [Am]own shit right
(tell me, yes)
'Cause you ain't even livin'
what you [Dm]preach to me
[Em]So please, how you gonna tell me?
[Am]Look,

[Verse 13]
if you wanna [Dm]give [Em]advice
Give advice [Am]about my life
Make sure that your [Dm]shit [Em]is tight
How you gonna [Am]tell me?
Look, if you wanna [Dm]give advice
[Em]Give advice about my life[Am]
Make sure that your shit is tight