Chords for Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (Live at Montreux, 1976)

_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ [G#] _
[C#] Oh.
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_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] Mr.
Backlash, Mr.
Backlash, who do you think I am?
You raise my taxes, raise my wages,
send my only son, the son of [A#] Vietnam.
You see what happened there?
You give me second-class houses, second-class speech.
_ You know all colored people in this country
got [C#m] to be second-class [C#] food.
And it's true now.
That's the truth now.
It's true now.
_ _ Hey, but I got something on [D#] you.
I _ _ [C#m] know how to leave you.
[C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] [C#] When I try to find a job, _ get a little cash,
all you're going to hand me is a two-cent backlash.
[A#] _
But the world's big, big and bright and round,
black and [C#] round, _ full of other folks like me
who are black, [D#] green, and brown.
_ Backlash [C#m] and Kissinger, I'm going to leave you,
and you already got [G#] it _ in the [C#] blues. _
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Give the drummer some.
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_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] Like Odetta [F#] said last night, [C#] if you don't get loose now,
you better forget it, [G#] _ [C#]
[G#] because you ain't got much [F#] time.
None of us do.
[A#m]
I think the Rolling Stones say we got [C#] five years.
_ When a blind daughter tries to find a little job
to earn a little cash, all you got to offer her
is your stupid, same, stupid, [C#m] only backlash.
But the world is big.
I saw it, big and bright and [C#] round.
And it's [E] full of other folks like [C] me
who are Japanese, [G#] black, and beige, and brown.
Mr.
Backlash, you're not [F#] the only one.
That's [C#m] what you've been thinking.
[C#]
I'm going to leave you.
I'm going to leave you.
I'm going to leave you with the blues.
Oh, _ _ _ yeah. _
Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, baby.
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Mm [G#]-hmm.
_ [F#] Mm-hmm.
Mm [C#]-hmm. Mm _ _ _ -hmm.
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_ All _ _ _ _ _
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[G#m] _ _ _ right, [F#] all right.
_ [C#] _
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[G#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
Mr.
Backlash, Mr.
Backlash, _ I'm going to tell you now.
Langston Hughes died.
_ _ He told [D#m] me many [C#] months ago.
_ _ He said, Nina, I know it's been hard for you, baby. _
_ I know how hard [D#m] it's been [C#] for you.
But _ _ they never wanted to accept you. _
Black, you see that brother down there looking up feeling?
[D#m] [C#] And white, they easy.
_ The blacks, never, ever.
_ _ I'm going to [D#m] tell you.
[C#] He said, _ Nina, _ keep on working till they
open up the door.
_ _ [F#] You [C#] know who you are.
_ And you know _ you either been here
or you never been here before.
_ Don't make no difference.
[D#m] _ [C#] _
_ _ _ And when they open up the door, make sure you
tell them where it's at.
_ [D#m] So they'll [C#] have no other place to hide behind [G#] all
them strange hats.
_ [C#m]
So I'm going to leave you [C#] with the blues.
_ [G] _ [C#] _