BLACK PARADE Chords by Beyoncé

[B] [A] [Bm] .
[B] I'm going back to the South.
I'm going back, back, back, back.
When my roots ain't watered down.
Growing, [A] growing like a bob, [B] bob tree of life.
Bone for the ground.
Ancestors put me on game.
On time, on gold chain.
With my old shoe in the jail.
Follow me.
[F#m] I'm glad I got you deep, [B] friend.
Hola, yo na, salud, sacha.
Na, chapa, ensin.
[N] Ice, ice, ice, ice, ice.
Flushed out.
Flooded, flooded.
[D] On my lips.
Out.
[Bm] Going up, going up.
[D] Motherland, motherland.
Drip on [B] me.
Mélanie, mélanie.
My dreams been skinny.
.
Motherland, motherland.
[F#m] Motherland, motherland.
Drip on [B].
me.
[C#m] I can't forget my [F#m] history.
It's her story.
And I'm like, maybe that's the reason why they [B] always mad.
Yeah, they always mad.
Getting past them.
[F#] I know that's the [B] reason why they all be mad.
And they always have been.
Honey, come around my way, around my [F#m] eyes.
Whenever [B] mama says no Mama [A] say.
And [B] I told them all my love was hidden.
[F#m] Follow [B] my parade, my [A] parade.
[D#] Talking [Bm] slick to my folk, with that lip like life, oh.
You [F#m] hear them swarming right, reasons [B] known to pride.
Now here we come on our toes, [F#m] yeah.
[A] Follow [B] my parade, my [A] parade.
[B] .
One for [C#m] us, all black, [B] all chrome.
Black on, black tits, dead black.
Walk by my window [E] down, let them see Winnie crack a big smile.
[D] Go figure [E] me and Jigga 50, let them cheer and lay [F#m] like chick clow.
I [B] charge my crystals in a full moon.
You can send them missiles, I'ma send my goons.
Baby sister, reppin' him a yacht, and a yacht.
Trust me, they gon' need an army.
[A] Rubber bullets [B] bouncing off me.
Made a picket sign off your picket fence.
[C#m] Take it as a warning.
[B] Waste beads from your Uber.
For honey, Billy, Mesa, Muta.
Straw line through the barbeque.
Put a cinny down where we gon' make it look true.
And then me cry on the runway in my hazmat.
Judge I'm running through the house and my heart all black.
And sisters on the wall, let the ghosts chit chat.
And sisters on the wall, let the ghosts chit chat.
Hold my hands, we gon' pray together.
Lay it down, face down in the gravel.
We wear it all, tie it [F#m] white to the funeral.
Black love, we gon' stay together.
Curtain may feel on the speaker.
Little Malcolm, I miss my mamatina.
Need another march like the Guatemica.
Need peace and [E] reparation for my people.
Fuck these ladies, I'ma let it drip all up.
Kiss fade and waste, I'ma let it dread all up.
Put your fist up in the air, show back [Bm] love.
[D#].
Motherland, drip on me.
Motherland, motherland, drip on me.
Honey, come [B] around my way, [F#m] around my.
Whenever [B] mama says go out.
[A] Mama says go [B] out.
Here I come, I'ma go, [A] say it out.
Follow [B] my parade, oh, [A] my parade.
[B] Stop and say to Michael.
Hit [A] that lip like Michael.
And I'm storming right, Jesus known to pride.
Now [B] here we come, I'ma go, [A] say it out.
Follow [B] my parade, oh, my parade.
We got rhythm, we [F#] got pride.
We got [B] .
kings, we [D#m] got tribes.
[B] Holy river, [F#m] holy tongue.
[B].
Glory, [C#m] full of.
[B] Motherland, motherland, drip on me.
[A] Motherland, [B] motherland, drip on [C#m] me.
[B] I can't forget my history.
[A] It's a story.
[B].
Motherland, drip on me.
Motherland, motherland, drip on me.
Honey, come around my way, [F#m] around my.
Whenever [B] mama says go [A] out.
Mama says go out.
[B] Here I come, I'ma go, say it [A] out.
Follow [B] my parade, oh, [A] my parade.
Stop [B] and say to Michael.
Hit [A] that lip like Michael.
And [B] I'm storming right, [F#m] Jesus known to pride.
Now [B] here we come, I'ma go, [A] say it out.
Follow my [B] parade, oh, my parade.
[E]