My fa ther said: ‘Nev er (Bbmaj9)give up, (C)son,

just look how good (Gm11)Cas si us be come.

Mu ham mad, Ma hat ma (Bbmaj9)and Nel (C)son,

not scared to be (Gm11)strong.

Now, you could run and (Bbmaj9)just say, “they’re (C)right,

no, I’ll (Dm7)nev er be no one (Am11)in my whole (Gm11)life”

or you could turn and (Bbmaj9)say, “no wait, they’re (C)wrong”

and get to (Dm7)keep on (Am11)danc ing (Gm11)all life long.

‘Nev er (Bbmaj9)give up, (C)son,

just look what A (Gm11)me lia and Joan done.

Oh, Ro sa, The re sa, (Bbmaj9)their war (C)won,

not scared to be (Gm11)strong.

Now, you could run and (Bbmaj9)just say, “they’re (C)right,

no, I’ll (Dm7)nev er be no one (Am11)in my whole (Gm11)life”

or you could turn and (Bbmaj9)say, “no wait, they’re (C)wrong”

and get to (Dm7)keep on (Am11)danc ing (Gm11)all life long.

(Dm7)keep on (Am11)danc ing (Gm11)all life long.

Yeah, you could (F)be

some one (C)spe cial,

you’ve got (Bb)bright in your brains and light ning in your veins, you’ll go (F)high er than they’ve ev er (C)gone.

In (Bb)you, I (F)see

some one (C)spe cial,

you’ve got (Bb)fire in your eyes and when you re a lise, you’ll go (F)fur ther than we’ve ev er (C)gone,

just turn I paved my in tu i tion, I could (Bbmaj9)n’t af ford tu (C)i tion, my funds was in suf fi cient, it felt like I’m in pri son.

Un (Dm7)til I re a lised I had to (Am11)set my mind (Gm11)free, I was trust ing sta tis tics more than I trust me.

Get a de gree, good job, (Bbmaj9)4 0 1 (C)K, but I’m tryin’ to turn K’s to M’s, what does it take?

And may be I could be the new (Gm11)A li of mu sic, prol ly in stead of doing it just as a hob by like (Bbmaj9)these boys (C)told me to.

I guess you ei ther watch the show, or you show ’em proof, prove it to them, or you (Am11)prove it to your (Gm11)self but ho nest ly, it’s bet ter if you do it for your self.

Nev er com pla cent ’til (Bbmaj9)we hit the o (C)a sis, one life, don’t waste it, feel my heart rac ing.

Suc cess, I taste it, aye, we on the (Gm11)verge of get ting ev’ ry sin gle thing that we de serve.

could

some one (C)spe cial,

you’ve got (Bb)fire in your eyes, I see hea ven in side, you’ll go (F)fur ther than we’ve ev er (C)gone.

In (Bb)you, I (F)see

some one (C)spe cial,

you’ve got (Bb)bright in your brains, you can break through those chains, you’ll go (F)high er than we’ve ev er (C)gone,

just turn it on.

In you, I (Bbmaj9)see

some one (Dm7)spe cial,

don’t go to war with your self,

just turn, just turn, just turn it on

and you can’t go wrong.