Acordes de This Is My Demo 
Sway 
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Tono: C# minor•
Verse 1
Am
F
Ladies and gentleman
Dm
Welcome to the end of the beginning
F
Dm
F
Dm
My name is Sway
Am
AKA Little Derek
And right now
I'm about to take you
To the very beginning
F
Before the after
Prior to the present
Dm
Before the hype
Before the magazines
C
Before the buzz
Dm
Am
Dm
And before the mix tape
Am
Back to the blood, sweat and tears
Dm
Growing up I had too much
Verse 2
Dm
on my mind
I needed a way to get all of this
Am
Dm
crap out of my head
Am
So I chose music
Dm
This is my beginning
Am
This is my introduction
Dm
Am
This is my dream
Dm
Am
Listen very carefully
Dm
This is my demo
Am
Yeah,
Verse 3
it's tha arrival of Decihper
C
Live from this London dungeon
Am
(underground)
That's where I've been puttin' it
Down for my people on the
F
North side (Get up)
East side (Get up)
Dm
West side (Get up)
South side (Get up)
Inside (Yeah)
Outside (Yeah)
Get up, get up, get up,
Verse 4
get up
Am
(Underground) Under
C
That's what I'm sayin yeah?
Am
And for years
G
That's how long I waited here
F
And I'm prepared
Dm
Back then people never wanted
to hear me though
That's when I had to shoot
a 'lil video
Now I'm giving you the album
Am
Here we go!
Verse 5
Am
Ever since I was a 'lil kid about six,
seven, eight, nine or ten
C
Am
I always wanted to be bigga than Big Ben
But dreams can easily come to an end
F
When your livin' in the big
L- o- n- d- o- n
The city dat never sleeps so
Dm
how do we dream?
'Lil kids forced to think like men and
the big smoke just gets you lean
F
Am
To get a good start in life I took
a run up instead of pickin' a gun up
Dm
Am
I picked up a pen, and I shoot for the sky
Run up on the clouds
That's why I got one up on you clowns
F
Now I'm becomin' da talk of da town
Dm
Just yesterday I was
walkin' around
F
Dm
Tryin' to figure out how I'm gonna
come up on the crowd
Now I'm in the middle when the gathering
Am
crowds are sayin'
Verse 6
(Sway) The beginning is
still in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin' in my
school assembly
G
(Sway) Never listen to what tha
Am
teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin',
"Will I live to seventy?"
F
(Sway) And if I die will the world
remember me?
Dm
(Sway) Who's my frends and who's
my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who
will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready
for whatever is meant to be
Verse 7
Am
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my
blood sweat and tears in this music
F
(Sway,
sway, sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway)
Dm
F
Dm
You're listening to
(Sway, sway,
sway, sway, sway) This is my demo
Verse 8
Am
Once upon a time in a place
called Harrogate
Lived this average African black kid
C
tryin' to get up in this (industry)
Am
Flat 23, Brook Road,
F
he would practice rapping rapidly
Dm
This rap MC had a lot to say with
a little time so he rapped quick
Not to say he never had any frends,
but he never had many
Am
Never had a penny to ac cess
the inside 05- 09- 82
Flew back to the Motherland
where he grew
C
Am
Flew back to the other land
he was to (to)
English boy with African accent
F
05- 09- 92
Dm
Using the music rooms at his school
Verse 9
Dm
Recording rhythms then he rid 'em
with riddles
Now he's an African boy with
Am
an English accent
Now he's 22
And your listening too
His first official LP debut
Bm
Am
And I got the energy (Uh)
I'm not jus' an NIG (Uh)
F
I'm still hungry and I'm eag (Uh)
Dm
And I'm more ready than
I've ever been (Uh)
Because I've been pursuing
this thing from school
Since commodore
Atari and Amiga
Verse 10
Am
Remember me sir?
I ain't in it to be number two
Five albums that's what I'm gonna do
Five albums then I'm done
Then I'm through
The enemies all can bite the dust
F
This is all before the hype, the buzz
Dm
This is all before the wife, the lust
The lies the thugs with knives and guns
It's entertainment for you,
but it's life for us
Am
It's time to buzz,
my niggas
Verse 11
(Sway) The beginning is still in my memory
Am
(Sway) I was sittin' in my
school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what
da teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin',
"Will I live to seventy?"
F
(Sway) And if I die will the world
remember me?
Dm
(Sway) Who's my frends and who's
my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who
will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready
for whatever is meant to be
Verse 12
Am
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my
blood sweat and tears in this music
F
(Sway, sway,
Dm
sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
(Sway, sway,
sway, sway, sway) You're listening to
(Sway, sway,
Verse 13
sway, sway, sway) This is my demo
Am
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
F
On earth as it is in heaven
Dm
F
Dm
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
Am
As we forgive those
Dm
Am
Who trespass against us
Dm
And lead us not into temptation
Am
Bm
Am
But deliver us from evil
F
For thine is the kingdom
Am
F
Am
F
And the power, and the glory
Dm
For ever and ever
Amen
Am
I've got
Verse 14
angels on my Nokia
I'm out here, and I got no fear
C
Bm
Am
No foes or no phobias
So all those plottin'
with the obeahs
F
And voodoo deres no hope for yah
Dm
Hang yourself I got rope for yah
I said deres no hope for yah
Hang yourself I got rope for yah
Verse 15
Am
'Cause God would never let
the devil harm any G's
And when I'm in the dark
read Psalms 23
I'm trying to do good on
the path for the beasts
A place where the bad boys
are the police
F
Trapped in between the
Imam and the priest
Dm
And I can't see
If I'm gonna be in the Church
with a cross around my neck
Or in a Mosque with a Quran and a
Verse 16
palm full of beads
Am
(Sway) The beginning is still
in my memory
(Sway) I was sittin' in my
school assembly
(Sway) Never listen to what
da teachers tellin' me
(Sway) I was thinkin',
"Will I live to seventy?"
F
(Sway) And if I die will the world
remember me?
Dm
(Sway) Who's my frends and who's
my enemies?
(Sway) Who will love and who
will envy me?
(Sway) Now I'm ready
for whatever is meant to be
Verse 17
Am
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway) I put my
blood sweat and tears in this music
F
(Sway, sway,
sway, sway, sway) I will not fail
Dm
(Sway, sway,
sway, sway, sway) You're listening to
(Sway, sway, sway, sway, sway)
Interlude 1
This is my demo
Dm
Am
Verse 18
Charlie boy
Ah, ah who is that?
Oh, it is I your brother Koffi
What are you doing outside in the dark,
in the height of the night?
Oh Koffi, I'm planning to travel,
I'm planning to go abroad
So you are planing to escape the village,
that is a taboo
Verse 19
Nonsense Koffi,
you shut up, you idiot
You just forget about taboo,
just forget about taboo
You too,
what are you doing here anyway?
I was going to do a shit,
when I smell your filthy armpits
And I follow the smell all the way to here
Verse 20
Shut up, you bastard
Who is bastard, who are you,
anyway where are you going?
I'm going to Buckingham Palace,
London to eat champagne with the queen
Charlie you didn't even have I cedi to embark
on such enormous journey
Nonsense Koffi,
you forget about cedis, just forget about cedis
How are you going to get there?
Ehen, I'm going to make it myself,
jump in the river and swim
And I'm not going to stop
untill I see white people
Verse 21
Eh Charlie, you are truly great
Oh Koffi, you too are also great
One day you are going to be
the U.N. secretary
Me? Thank you Charlie thank you so much,
I you are so grateful
Oh kai, don't you worry,
anyway I'm going to go now, bye bye
Outro 1
Bye bye, Charlie bring me fish and chips
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