Chords for Nina Simone - To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Audio)

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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ Oh, [Em] what a [G] lovely _ precious _ _ dream _ _ _ to [C] _ be _ _ [F] young, [C] gifted and bright. _ _ _ _
Open your [G] _ heart and what I _ _ mean. _ _
_ In [Am] the _ whole _ world [Dm] you know, _ _ there's a [G] million _ _ boys _ _ [Am] and _ girls _
who [Dm] are _ _ _ [C] young, gifted and _ bright.
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_ [G] And that's [C] a _ [F] fact.
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_ _ If [C] you're _ young, gifted and bright, _ _ _ we must [G] begin to [F] tell how _ [G] _ _ young _
_ _ there's [C] a world. _
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_ Yours is [G] the quest that's just [Dm] _ [Cm] _ [G] begun. _ _ _
_ _ _ When [Am] you're _ _ feeling real [Dm] _ low, yeah, _ _ _ there's a [Em] great truth that you should [Am] _ know. _
_ When [Dm] you're _ _ _ [Em] young, gifted [Cm] and bright, [F] _ _
[F#m] _ [G] your [C] soul can fight.
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_ _ How to be young, _ [Dm] gifted [C] and bright. _
_ Oh, [G] how I've longed to know the truth. _ _ _
_ There [C] _ are _ _ [Dm] times when [C] I look back _ _ and I [G] am _ [C] haunted by my [G] _ _ _
youth.
_ _ _ _ [Am] Ah, _ but my [Dm] joy _ of today _ [Em] is that we can all _ be [Am] proud to say
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ to be young, [Em] gifted [C] and [G] bright. _
_ He's where [C] it's at.
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_ He's where [C] it's at.
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_ He's [C] where it's at. _ _
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