Black Chords by Dave

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_ _ [Dm] _ Black is beautiful, black is [Gm] excellent, black is pain, black is joy, black is [C] evident, it's
working twice as [Am] hard as the people you know you're better [Dbm] than, cause you need to do [Db] double
what they do so you can level [Dm] them.
Black is so much deeper than just African [Am] American,
our heritage been severed, you never got to experiment [Gm] with family trees, [F] cause they teach
you about famine [A] and greed, they show [Dbm] you pictures of our family in need, [Dm] tell us we
used to be barbaric, we had actual queens, [Am] black is watching child soldiers getting killed
by other children, [Bb] feeling sick like oh shit this could have happened to me, [A] your mummy
watching telling stories about your dad and your [Bb] niece, black is the berry, the sweet
of the juice, [F] the kid dies, the black is the killer, the sweet of the news, [E] and if he's
white you give him a chance, he's ill and [D] confused, if he's black he's probably armed,
you [Dm] see him and shoot, [D] look, black is growing up around the [A] barber shop, mummy saying stay
away from trouble, you're in [Gm] Radala, studying for [F] ages, appreciating the tarts you [A] got,
cause black is in your blood and you ain't even got the heart [D] to stop, black is [Dm] stepping
in for your mother because your father's [C] gone, and standing by your children when you haven't
proven karma [Bb] wrong, black is doing all of the above and going [A] corner shopping, trying
to help a lady cross the road to have her [D] walking off, black is growing up around your
family and making [C] it, and being forced to [Am] leave the place you love because there's hate
[Bb] in it, people say you hate the shit, never stayed to change the shit, [A] but black is being
jealous, you'd be dead if you had stayed [Bb] in it, black is struggling to find your history
or trace [F] the shit, you don't know the truth about your race cause they're [E] erasing it,
black has got a sour fucking flavour, here's a taste of [D] it, but black is all I [Dm] know, there
ain't a thing that I would [D] change in it, _ look, _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [D] black ain't just a single fucking colour man
there's shades to it, [Dm] her hair straight and thick but mine's got [A] waves in it, black is
not divisive, they've been lying and I [Bb] hate this shit, black has never been a competition,
we all hate this [Dm] shit, black is deadly, black is when you're [A] freezing in your home and you
can't get sleep, but never feeling [E] empty cause you got 20 cousins in your country living
stress [A] free, walking for their water daughter wrapped inside a bed [D] sheet, black is distant,
is representing [A] countries that never [Dm] even existed while your grandmother was living,
[A] black is my Ghanaian brother reading into [Bb] scriptures, doing research on his lineage
finding out that he's [A] Egyptian, black is [D] people naming your countries and what they trade [A] most,
coast of ivory, gold coast and the [E] grain coast, but most importantly to show how deep all of
this [A] pain goes, west Africa, Benin, they call the slave [D] coast, black is so perusing cause the
culture there in love [Bb] with it, they take off features when they want and have their [Bb] fun with
it, [E] never seem to cope with all the things we know would come with [F] it, loud in our [E] laughter,
silent in our [Bb] suffering, black is being strong inside the face of defeat, [G] poverty made me a
beast, I battled the law in the streets, we [A] all struggled but your struggle ain't a struggle
like me, well how could it be when your people gave us the odds that we'd be, [Dm] I mean fucking
hell, what about our brothers that are stuck in [C] jail that could have busted a bell, they held a
burden gotta live [Bb] with it, black is being guilty until proving that you're [A] innocent, black is
saying free my fucking niggas stuck inside them [Bb] prison cells, they think it's funny we ain't got
nothing to say [F] to them, unconditional love is strange to them, it's [A] amazing and black is like
the sweetest fucking flavor, here's a taste of [Dm] it, a black is all I know, they ain't a thing that I
would change in it. _ _
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