Black Berries chords by The Isley Brothers
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Verse 1
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You know, my brothers and I was raised in Cincinnati,
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you know, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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And I remember when we were kids, you know,
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we used to walk to the woods, you know,
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and go blackberry picking.
Swinging our baskets on our arms,
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skipping down the road, you know.
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And Kelly used to have an expression
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he used to say back then.
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And we made a song out of that expression.
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I remember the words of it.
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It used to go a little bit like this.
The black of the berry,
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the sweet of the juice.
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He said these words.
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The black of the berry.
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He said the sweet of the
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juice.
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The black of the berry.
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Sweet of the juice.
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You know, he digged
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blackberry so much,
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and everywhere he would go,
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he would use that as his excuse, you know,
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for staying out late at night.
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And my brother Rudolph,
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he used to like strawberries,
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if I remember correctly at the time.
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And at the time,
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my thing was wild cherries.
I remember the three of us
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used to steal tomatoes,
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And lay on the ground and peel
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all kinds of ice potatoes
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And sing the black of the berry
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Ha!
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The sweet of the juice
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Ah! Yeah!
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All right Lord have mercy
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We used to strip down bananas
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and throw the pillings away
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at the same time in the street,
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you know?
And when it got hot,
we drank all the lemonade
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we could get
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Till we knocked ourselves
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clean off our feet
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And then we walked along
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singing the Blackberry
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The sweet of the Jews
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Come on, y 'all Blackberry
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The sweet of the juice
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Let me sing this song
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Blackberries
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The sweet of the,
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sweet of the juice
Now how would you look
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eating a green berry, you know?
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What's the use?
Black Berries
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