Josephine Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am][F]
[Intro: Ghostface Killah]
God's woman... what's going on?
[G]I know t[Am]hings seem messed up
sometime
You stressed out and you can't
handle the situation
Sometime it feels like
[C]you lacking the [Am]guidance
And you don't know what
to do... but stay strong
[E]And keep in min[F#]d that he
al[Am]ways loves you...
It's what it is... that's
right sugar [C]love
Come on...
[Chorus: Willie Cottrell] Josephine, [Em]the times are getting

[Verse 2]
[Am]
tough
Seems to [E]me... [G]you just
won't [Am]get enough
[C]The rain, won't [Em]wash away,
your [Am]sins...
You'll [E]be here,
[G]to do them all over [Am]again...

[Verse 3]
[Ghostface Killah] Yo, [C]I know
this chick from the hood
named [Em]Courtney Cox
[Am]And her brain is easy to pick
like faulty locks
She's aw[E]fully hot,
asshole [G]burning like tobasco
She [Am]used to be thick,
it's like where the hell her ass go
[C]Started smoking weed and gradu
[Am]ated to the pipe
Thought that she could quit but
her calculations wasn't right
[E]Infactuated with the life of dope fie[G]nds
and crack pusher[Am]s
Prostituting for old pimps
who mack hook[C]ers
Putting dope [Em]in the cook,
searching for her vein
[Am]Tracks all over her arms,
she never felt the pain
[F]The monkey on her back
[G]is now a gorilla
[Am]Fiending for a hit knowing one
day it's gon' kill her
[C]The clinic didn't help [Em](nope) she just
another young black [Am]woman
Destroying her pretty image and her health
Got [F]me thinking to myself, damn,
[G]how could this happen?
I seen [Am]her on the corner, nodding off,
sniffin' and scratching
[C][Em][Am]
[E][G]

[Verse 4]
[Am]
[Chor[C]us]
[Em][Trife Da

[Verse 5]
[Am][G#]
[E]God[G]][Am]
She [C]wakes up, with an urge to get [Em]high
Every[Am]day, the same routine,
needing the mood of fix to get by
So [E]she reaches for her purse,
grab [G]the bag and the needle
Tie a [Am]sock her arm and start
shooting up the diesel
Had [C]a flesh back, screwing some [Am]dude
up in [Em]his [Am]hashback
The night before, body still sore,
holding her ass [E]crack
A regular John,
[G]she met her through Tom
She passed [Am]out with the syringe
still stuck in her arm
Dying [C]a slow death,
oh, she [Em]losing her dear mind
From [Am]the troubles of the world,
feeling cursed by mankind
Uh, [F]caught up in a desperate [G]rage,
was blessed with AIDS
[Am]Lost her appetite,
hardly slept in days
[C]Now it's too late, praying to Je[Em]sus,
she fucked around
With [Am]the wrong penis,
contaminated with diseases
[F]Two months pregnant,
car[G]rying around her fetus
But [Am]they found her on Broad,
in the dumpster, behind the cleaners
[C][Em]

[Verse 6]
[Am]
[Chorus]
[Interlude: Ghostface Killah]
[E]Josephine, [G]wha[Am]t's wrong,
[C]baby?[Em][Am]
[G#][E]
[G]Come on.[Am]..

[Verse 7]
[Ghostface Killah] Yo, [C]what
your momma gonna
think of you [Em]girl?
Her little baby's [Am]all doped up,
strung out on the world
[E]Try'nna make some quick cash
for a [G]hit of that stash
Listen, [Am]baby, you growing up much too fast
[C]Uh, this goes out to every
[Em]project and every ghetto
[Am]For those getting high,
using drugs [G#]on every level
[E]Living your life, day and nig[G]ht,
getting stoned
You better [Am]leave those drugs alone, feel me?

[Verse 8]
[C][Willie Cottrell]
Up all [Em]night, under [Am]the party [F]lights
Same [G]old popping [Am]and party h[C]opping
All [Em]of your so called [Am]friends,
are leading you down the wrong [F]road
Lead[G]ing you back to crack[Am],
it's a known [Dm]fact
It is [Am]time, that you need me,
[Dm]I'll be ther[Am]e, to help ya[Dm]
I'll be your leaning pole [Am]when
you're falling [G]down
I'll be there, when you falling [C]down (sooner or later
[Em])

[Outro 1]
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