(Both Cm and Gm are played barred on the 3rd fret.)
Verse 1
[Gm]
It was a stormy night
[Cm]
You know the kind where the lightening strike
[Gm] [Cm]
and i was hanging out with some of my artsy friends
oo wee oo wee oo weeeeeeee
[Gm]
The night was long the night went on
[Cm]
people coolin' out until the break of dawn
[Gm] [Cm]
incense was burnin' so I'm feelin right, aight.
Bridge
[Gm]
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
[Cm]
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
[Gm]
I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not
[Cm]
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
[Gm]
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
[Cm]
and that's why I do what I do
[Gm]
My soul flies free like a willow tree
[Cm]
doo wee doo wee do wee
Hook
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
You just don't want to be down
Verse 2
[Gm]
I have a ho
[Cm]
and I take it everywhere I go
[Gm]
Cause I'm planting seeds
[Cm]
so I reaps What I sow, ya know, ya know
[Gm]
Oh on & on & on & on
[Cm]
my cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone
[Gm]
I can't control the soul flowin' in me
[Cm]
ooh wee
Bridge
[Gm]
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
[Cm]
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
[Gm]
I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not
[Cm]
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
[Gm]
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
[Cm]
and that's why I do what I do
[Gm]
My soul flies free like a willow tree
[Cm]
doo wee doo wee do wee
Hook
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
[Gm]
And if you don't want to be down with me
[Cm]
You just don't want to be down
(x3)
