Citizen Cope is a pseudonym of Clarence Greenwood, keyboardist, guitarist, singer, DJ, and record producer. Citizen Cope now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Greenwood started his musical career as a DJ for the hip hop act Basehead, a group that would have a significant impact on his style as a solo-musician. Citizen Cope blends many genres of music, such as folk, blues, hip hop, rock, and R & B.
Greenwood first released a demo tape under the name Cope Citizen in the late '90s.
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Hey this is my first tab. I put it up because it’s 100% right unlike the others. I lifted it off a YouTube Vid of Citizen Cope playing it. It’s easy, the same chords cycle over and over again for the whole song. Just change the strumming pattern a bit for the Chorus vs the Verses.
CHORDS: G 320022 F# 133200 C x32010 A# x13300 C x32010
Intro (play twice): GF#CA#C (Use the same chords in the same order for the rest of the song).
GF# Mr.Dali Lamas CA#C Another sister's shootin' heroin tomorrow GF# Amputees in Freetown C Sierra Leone's A#C The church wasn't honest GF# The state put the youth in a harness CA#C Creatin' hostility among us GF# Teacher said no college CA#C Still the kid's gotta get a check with a couple commas GF# People wanna bomb us CA#C More people gotta scatter and run from us GF#CA#C You can blame it on Zeus and Apollo and Adonis
G But what you've done here F#C Is put yourself between a bullet and a target A#CG And it won't be long before F#CA#C You're pulling yourself away
But what you've done here Is put yourself between a bullet and a target And it won't be long before You're pulling yourself away
I've been knowing her for years I've been seeing her for years She got dark, dark wavy hair With a voice like she just don't care She got a skirt with a halter top She's got a dad who never gave a fuck She drinks a beer with a proper shot She got knocked up in a pickup truck But she got engaged when she was nineteen To this dude who was acting insane Had a .45 that he always cleaned Said one day one day one too many days Now she ducked and she ran away Never to be heard from, never to be seen I check the cover of a magazine I'm just wondering how, just wondering how
But what you've done here Is put yourself between a bullet and a target And it won't be long before You're pulling yourself away