Key: D# minor
Verse 1
G#m
Why do we hate?
We hate because we're taught to hate.
D#
We hate because we're ignorant.
F#
We're the product of
ignorant people
C#m
who have been taught an ignorant thing,
which is that there are four or five
different races.
E
There are not four
B
or five different races.
There's only one race on the face of the earth,
Ddim
and we're all members of that race,
the human race.
D#
G#m
But we have separated people into races
D#
so that some of us may
see ourselves
as superior to the others.
F#
We thought it would work, I guess.
It hasn't worked.
C#m
It has been bad for everyone.
E
It's time to get over this business.
There is no gene for racism.
B
There's no gene for bigotry.
A#
You're not born a bigot,
Ddim
you have to learn to be a bigot.
D#
Anything you learn, you can unlearn.
B
It's time to unlearn our bigotry.
A#
G#m
It's time to get over this thing,
D#
D
D5
B
G#m
D#
and we best get over it pretty soon.
D
Ddim
B
G#m
D#
D
B
G#m
D#
G#m
D#
D
B
G#m
D#
D
B
G#m
A#
E
D#
G#m
A#
E
A#
E
D#
A#
B
C#m
D#
E
G#m
Proud American,
C#m
B
can you please ex plain
G#m
E
in simple words
C#m
G#m
How you think someone like them will
F#
Build a safer,
C#m
B
G#m
more human state
E
C#m
for you to live in
G#m
A#
C#m
G#m
I am only trying to understand
Where you come from,
A#
C#m
G#m
where you're dying to go
G#
G#m
A#
There must be something wrong
Ddim
C#m
G#m
with the way I think
A#
Can't comprehend all that
C#m
G#m
you seem to know
True American
Somehow you're convinced
B
E
that you are worth more
C#m
G#m
Based on the color of your skin
C#m
G#m
E
Education failed but it's not too late
C#m
G#m
For you to unlearn
Outro 1
A#
C#m
G#m
A#
C#m
G#
G#m
G#
A#
C#m
G#m
G#
C#m
D#
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