Biography:
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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Other songs:
Four years of hard work!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Artist: Citizen Cope
Song: Lifeline
Album: The Rainwater LP
These chords can be played in full, but it sounds most like the recording when you
mute the E strings.
Listen to the recording for the strum pattern and the pull offs, hammer ons and
slides done during chord transitions.
Gm: X5533X
F: X3321X
C: X3201X (transition to X3301X just before going to the C7)
C7: X3231X
[Intro]
Gm F C C7 (x2)
[Verse 1]
Gm F C C7
When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself
Gm F C C7
When you're so dead wrong, let alone no one else
Gm F C C7
Well the children still dying in the street, And babies still living with disease
Gm F C C7
And the cops got guns, and the po folk got sons who work for Mr. Franklin every week
[Chorus]
Gm F C C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find
Gm F C C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime
Gm F C C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born
Gm F C C7
To be sure to endure when the storm comes
[Verse 2]
Gm F C C7
Got them sad eyes, got cat eyes, got the angels tired from saving his life
Gm F C C7
And you could bet to contain yourself before you end up killed
Gm F C C7
Get his bare feet touchin her bare feet, the air breathes sweet near mountains peak
Gm F C C7
And I forgot what the wise man said about that ancient thread
[Chorus]
Gm F C C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find
Gm F C C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime
Gm F C C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born
Gm F C C7
To be sure to endure when the storm comes
Gm F C C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born
Gm F C C7
To rejoice, rejoice when it succumbs
[Outro]
Gm F C C7 (x6)
(fading out)
Song: Lifeline
Album: The Rainwater LP
These chords can be played in full, but it sounds most like the recording when you
mute the E strings.
Listen to the recording for the strum pattern and the pull offs, hammer ons and
slides done during chord transitions.
Gm: X5533X
F: X3321X
C: X3201X (transition to X3301X just before going to the C7)
C7: X3231X
[Intro]
Gm F C C7 (x2)
[Verse 1]
Gm F C C7
When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself
Gm F C C7
When you're so dead wrong, let alone no one else
Gm F C C7
Well the children still dying in the street, And babies still living with disease
Gm F C C7
And the cops got guns, and the po folk got sons who work for Mr. Franklin every week
[Chorus]
Gm F C C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find
Gm F C C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime
Gm F C C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born
Gm F C C7
To be sure to endure when the storm comes
[Verse 2]
Gm F C C7
Got them sad eyes, got cat eyes, got the angels tired from saving his life
Gm F C C7
And you could bet to contain yourself before you end up killed
Gm F C C7
Get his bare feet touchin her bare feet, the air breathes sweet near mountains peak
Gm F C C7
And I forgot what the wise man said about that ancient thread
[Chorus]
Gm F C C7
And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find
Gm F C C7
Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime
Gm F C C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born
Gm F C C7
To be sure to endure when the storm comes
Gm F C C7
Baby we was born, maybe we were born
Gm F C C7
To rejoice, rejoice when it succumbs
[Outro]
Gm F C C7 (x6)
(fading out)
