We Live In Philly Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]Hey [Dsus4]guys,
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[Dsus4][G][Em]
[D][Em]
I heard it said, somebody had told me way back when,
that when we dream it's always
in black and white, well that's something I can't really attest to,
you know, because
I dream in
Technicolor.
I dream that
Dr.
Julius
Irving walked right into the
YMCA
on 52nd and
Chestnut
Street.
He had on a top 10 on one foot
and a
Jack
Purcell on the other.
So, he said he wanted to know
or if I wanted to head down to
Kung
Fu
Theater
at the
Goldman, you know,
or something like that,
that
Bilal and
Jill
Scott and
Patti
[D]LaBelle, [Em]ooh,
were playing at the
Spectrum.
He was like, I don't know, it was weird.
He had a basketball for a mouth.
And when he spoke, it was like, I don't know,
a rhythmic dribble or something.
It was cool.
You had to be there.
So, all of a sudden, we're at
Bartram
High, and they're playing
Grats, and
Hank
Gathers
are there, and
Bo
Kimble, and
Pooh
Richardson.
Remember him?
Well, I do.
And
Lionel
Simmons
And
Randy
Wood, it was like a oasis of athletes.
And
Doug
Overton, and, you know,
Dawn
Staley, remember?
[D]Remember?[Em][D]
[Em]How she gripped it at
Davids, had it wide open.
The whole city would come and see.
And I was there with
Dr.
Julius
Irving, right?
So I look over and
Maurice
Cheeks and
Alan
Iverson are rapping, really rapping.
And [D]like
Bobby
[Em]Dance and
Lady
B was having a party, somebody told me.
And
Coffee
Cam and
Perry
P,
Butterball,
Da
Tough
Crew,
Steady
B,
Cool
C, and
Schoolie
D were gonna be there.
And
Grandmaster
Nell was the
DJ.
Ooh.
Robbie
[Asus4]V was the[Em] emcee.
Ooh.
Scanna
Boys popping and rocking.
[D]You know [Em]how they [Asus4]do
that thing when they [Em]do that.
Uh, uh, uh, uh,
Mr.
Softy
I've been holding
Cheese steak hoagie
So I've got enough to get my tokens
Tasty cake, cupcake
[D]In the summer, [Em]a bittersweet
Well, the waste from bully
He got out
Gotta get my mind off the food
Got a dream, another dream,
you know what I mean?
Mustard pretzel, herbs barbe[D]que,[Em]
Franks, berry, berry, black cherry soda.
Got a dream, another dream,
get my mind off of [D]food.[Em]
Anyway,
Frankie
Beverly is on the radio, singing like sunshine and rain,
yeah, you know the
one, on the boom box in
my neighbor's kitchen.
I get up on the counter and I'm wearing my
flip -flops and pink rollers in my hair and
Miss
Jack[D]ie's talking [Em]about going down
Belmont
[Asus4]Plat eau,
[Em]West
River
Drive,
Exceeding
Speed,
Hunting
Park, 61st
Street, and then all of a sudden,
Shows
Frazier, shouts out the closet,
and kicks
Rocky's ass.
And I was laughing!
[Asus4][Em]
Music and film baby, we live in a film baby
Mu[Em]sic and film baby,
we live in a film baby
Ain't the mind funny?