Gangstas Paradise - Coolio

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        repeat this throughout the whole song, chorus too.

Chords are:
    
 1     0    0
 1     1    0
 2     2    1
 3     2    2
 3     3    2
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repeat, with t

   
he exception o

   
f the pre-chor

  
us fill, which

   (
 is below this

   
 one)

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A|------------
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D|-0-2-3------
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so be used during the chorus, 
etween this fill and the 
er you prefer to play it.
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[Verse 1]
           
As I walk thro

              
ugh the valley

        
 of the shadow

 of death
           
I take a look 

              
at my life and

     
 realize there

's nothin' lef

t
           
Cause I've bee

              
n blasting and

 
 laughing so l

ong,
           
That even my m

              
ama thinks tha

     
t my mind is g

one
            
But I ain't ne

             
ver crossed a 

         
man that didn'

t deserve it
           
Me be treated 

              
like a punk yo

  
u know that's 

unheard of
           
You better wat

              
ch how you're 

      
talking and wh

ere you're wal

king
           
Or you and you

              
r homies might

    
 be lined in c

halk
           
I really hate 

              
to trip but I 


gotta loc
           
As they croak,

              
 I see myself 

       
in the pistol 

smoke, fool
           
I'm the kinda 

             
G the little h


omies wanna be

 like
           
On my knees in

              
 the night say

    
ing prayers in

 the streetlig

ht

[Hook 1]
           
Been spending 

          
most their liv

           
es, living in 

              
the gangsta's 


paradise
           
Been spending 

          
most their liv

           
es, living in 

              
the gangsta's 


paradise
           
Keep spending 

          
most our lives

           
, living in th

            
e gangsta's pa

/
radise
           
Keep spending 

          
most our lives

           
, living in th

            
e gangsta's pa

/
radise

[Verse 2]
           
Look at the si

             
tuation they g


ot me facin'
           
I can't live a

              
 normal life, 

      
I was raised b

y the streets
           
So I gotta be 

              
down with the 


hood team
           
Too much telev

              
ision watching

        
 got me chasin

g dreams
           
I'm an educate

            
d fool with mo

/
ney on my mind
           
Got my 10 in m

             
y hand and a g


leam in my eye
           
I'm a loc'd ou

            
t gangsta set 

/
trippin' bange

r
           
And my homies 

              
is down so don

   
't arouse my a

nger, fool
           
Death ain't no

            
thing but a he

/
artbeat away,
           
I'm living lif

              
e, do or die, 


what can I say
           
I'm 23 now, bu

         
t will I live 

to see 24
           
The way things

              
 are going I d

     
on't know

[Hook 2]
           
Tell me why ar

       
e we so blind 

   
to see
           
That the ones 

        
we hurt are yo

     
u and me

[Hook 1]
           
Been spending 

          
most their liv

           
es, living in 

              
the gangsta's 


paradise
           
Been spending 

          
most their liv

           
es, living in 

              
the gangsta's 


paradise
           
Keep spending 

          
most our lives

           
, living in th

            
e gangsta's pa

/
radise
           
Keep spending 

          
most our lives

           
, living in th

            
e gangsta's pa

/
radise

[Verse 3]
           
Power and the 

       
money, money a

nd the power
           
Minute after m

       
inute, hour af

ter hour
           
Everybody's ru

           
nning, but hal


f of them ain'

t looking
             
What's going o

/            
n in the kitch

        
en, but I don'

t know what's 

cookin'
           
They say I got

              
ta learn, but 

  
nobody's here 

to teach me
           
If they can't 

              
understand it,

 
 how can they 

reach me
           
I guess they c

        
an't, I guess 

they won't
             
I guess they f

/            
ront, that's w

             
hy I know my l


ife is out of 

luck, fool

[Hook 1]
           
Been spending 

          
most their liv

           
es, living in 

              
the gangsta's 


paradise
           
Been spending 

          
most their liv

           
es, living in 

              
the gangsta's 


paradise
           
Keep spending 

          
most our lives

           
, living in th

            
e gangsta's pa

/
radise
           
Keep spending 

          
most our lives

           
, living in th

            
e gangsta's pa

/
radise

[Hook 2]
           
Tell me why ar

       
e we so blind 

   
to see
           
That the one's

         
 we hurt are y

/     
ou and me
           
Tell me why ar

       
e we so blind 

   
to see
           
That the one's

         
 we hurt are y

/     
ou and me

And that's "Gangsta's Paradise."  Hope you enjoy it.  Also this is my first tab so 
if you could rate it I'd appreciate it.  Thank you.

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