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Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Em
G
Am×
C×

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                                        Akon feat. OG Boo Dirty - Show Up 
 
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am                 
Akon 
Em            G        Am 
Mama hold her head and cry 
      Em          G                 Am 
Cause her son had been shut down on the streets and died 
Em     G      Am 
    Oh why oh why? 
        C          G   Am 
Is what she cries      She cries. 
 
Em              G                   Am 
    The biggest problems in the cities 
                             Em 
Is them daddies ain't there 
          G                   Am 
And if it ain't about the money 
                       Em  
Then nobody don't care 
           G            Am                                 C 
And then I spoke to an OG trying ment to me said boy these streets  
         G                   Am 
suck the love right out your heart 
So don't believe that bullshit. 
  
Em            G                   Am 
     You know god damn well these niggaz won't show up 
          Em  
(oh no no noo) 
         G                   Am 
You know god damn well These bitches will grow up 
            Em                        G                Am 
I'm sinking down to the ground of the ghettos We can't get no lower 
               C                            G    
So I' m askin' God How we can dig ourselves out? 
           Am 
We can't afford a shovel 
 
Em               G                        Am                                              Em 
    If there's a problem in the hood everybody comes together Just to solve that problem 
               G                     Am                                                Em 
But that's the problem in the hood nobody comes together unless she involved violence 
              G                           Am                                              C 
Cause we were taught to be the tough guys     And we were told just to remake silence 
                        G                        Am                                                   Em 
The you got them niggaz telling on the next guys     Stand and tell them what it takes to solve them 
           G                    Am            Em 
Is there a problem that I don't know about? 
           G                      Am            Em  
Is there a problem that I haven't heard about? 
                  G                 Am                           
Sad sick kids are robbin each other Prostitues and drug dealers 
         C                  G                          Am 
We won't get much further unless we start helping each other 
But they're none believers will say 
 
Em            G                   Am 
     You know god damn well these niggaz won't show up 
          Em  
(oh no no noo) 
         G                   Am 
You know god damn well These bitches will grow up 
            Em                        G                Am 
I'm sinking down to the ground of the ghettos We can't get no lower 
               C                            G    
So I' m askin' God How we can dig ourselves out? 
           Am 
We can't afford a shovel 
 
OG Boo Dirty 
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am  
Em    G    Am  
C     G    Am  
 
Akon 
Em            G                   Am 
     You know god damn well these niggaz won't show up 
          Em  
(oh no no noo) 
         G                   Am 
You know god damn well These bitches will grow up 
            Em                        G                Am 
I'm sinking down to the ground of the ghettos We can't get no lower 
               C                            G    
So I' m askin' God How we can dig ourselves out? 
           Am 
We can't afford a shovel 
          
 

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Em · G · Am · C

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Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.