Fm Ab Fm F
Eb Fm Ab Cm Eb

[Chorus-Dove]
F          Eb
Hey how ya doin'
Eb
Sorry ya can't get through
                         E
Why don't you leave your name
         Eb
And your number
Eb
And I'll get back to you
Fm  Eb
Hey how are ya doin'
Eb
Sorry ya can't get through
F
But leave your name (uh)
         Abm
And your number
N.C.
And I'll get back to you.

[Verse-Dove]
Fm              Eb
Once again it's another rap bandit
Db                Bb
Fiending at I and I can't stand it
Ab            C
Wanna be down with the day-glo
Eb             Eb    Bb            Eb
Knocking on my door, saying, "a yo yo"
Eb
Knocking on my door, saying, "a yo yo"
 Eb
"I got a funky new tune with a fly banjo"
F                           Bb      Db
I can't understand what the problem is
N.C.
I find it hard enough dealing with my own biz
G                          Bb
How'd they get my name and number
Db     Bb                Ab
Then I stop to think and wonder
       Eb                    Bb
Bout a plan, yo man, I gotta step out town
                              Eb
You wanna call me up? Take my number down
N.C.
It's 222-2222
N.C.
I got an answering machine that can talk to you
N.C.
It goes

[Chorus-Pos]
B          Eb
Hey how ya doin'
                   Bbm
Sorry ya can't get through
               Fm
But leave your name and your number
Eb
And I'll get back to you

[Verse-Pos]
              F
Yo, check it, exit the old style
Bb         Db
Enters the new
              Eb              Bb
But nothing's new 'bout being hawked by a crew
   Eb                              F
Or should I say flock cause around every block
N.C.
There's Harry, Dick, and Tom, with a demo in his palm
    F                      G
Now I'm with helping those who want to help themselves
G
And flaunt a nut that's doggy as in dope
F
But it's not the mood to hear
    Ab                      Dm
The tales of limousines and pails
                 Eb
Of money they'll make like a pro
  A                        Eb
I be like, "yo black, just play me the tape"
    F                             Ab
But at the show the time to spare I just make
Ab
But the songs created in they shacks
                 Fm
Are so wick-wick-wack, situations like this
Eb                          D                        Bb
And now I hate they give me smiles kool-aid wide and ask,
 Bb
"was it def? "
             Db         Bb                    Eb   F
And with the straighest face I be like, "hell yes, yes."
                               Dm
I slip them the digits to papa prince paul
N.C.
So I don't go awol but yet I know when they call, They get

[Chorus-Mase]
Ebm        Eb
Hey how ya doing
Eb
Sorry ya can't get through
                         Eb
Why don't you leave your name
         Ab
And your number
    E                Eb
And I'll get back to you
Ebm            Eb
Hey how are ya doin
Eb
Sorry you can't get through
                                       Ab
Why don't you leave your name and your number
N.C.
And I'll get back to you
N.C.
Check it out
Fm       Db
Name and number, and number,
                Bb
And number, and number

[Verse-Mase]
B                       Abm
Party at the dug-out on Diction ave
        Eb                 Bb
Haven't been to the jam in quite a while
Db
Figure I'll catch up on the latest styles
       Eb
'stead piles and piles of demo tapes bi-da miles
Cm                    Eb
All I wanna do is cut on the decks wild
Eb
But edition up here bi-da miles to the center
Eb
Reliever of duty, plug one mosies in
N.C.
And I be like, "yo g, Pos does all the producing"

[Verse-Pos]
Eb
Now woe is me to the third degree
A                         Db
Mase pulls the funny so I make like a bunny
Eb
Jettin'
Eb
But I'm getting used to this demo abuse
Bb                       Bbm        Db
Getting raped and giving birth to a tape
                        Eb
Cause there's no escape from the clutches of a hawker
A                       Ab
Attached to my success, sent like a stalker
     Cm                      F
Make way to my radius playin fly guy
       Bb                        Eb
Try to get on my back they force like luke sky
F             Ebm                   Db
Me myself and I go through this act daily
    Eb
And rarely do I not
                                  Fm           Bb
No matter how I dodge some jackal always nails me
                   Eb
No matter what the plot
                Cm
And even out on tour they be like,
 Bb                          Db          Bb
"yo I got a tape to play you back at the hotel"
           Db Eb
I be like "oh swell"
                                   A
Unveil the numeric code to dial my room
N.C.
And tell them to call me at noon
B      Fm                          Ab
But of course there's no answering machine in my room
      D
But a pretty young adorer
      Eb
Who I swung on tour
          Bb
And if it rings while we're alone
                  F
She'll answer the phone
F
And with the quickness she'll recite like a poem

[Hook-Dove]
               Db                           Eb
"hey, you done did the right thing, dial up my ring ring
           Db
Now you're waiting on the beep.
Eb
Say, I would love if you'd sing
            Fm             Ebm
The tune to tru instead of fronting on the speak. "
      Ab             F
So no problemo, just play your demo
                    Bb
And at the end it's break out time
Eb                     A
Please oh please don't press rewind
N.C.
Cause I'll just lay it down the line

[Chorus-Dove]
B
Hey how ya doing
F                  Fm
Sorry ya can't get through
                                       Ab
Why don't you leave your name and your number
Eb
And I'll get back to you

[Chorus-Pos]
Fm         Eb
Hey how ya doing
                   Bb
Sorry ya can't get through
                         Eb            Ab
Why don't you leave your name and your number
Ab
And we'll get back to you.
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