Black History Month chords by Saul Williams

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Intro 1

Can you feel

Verse 1
C 
F 
Bb 
C 
it' Nothing can save you
I'm tougher than bullets so
baby pray to your savior
Em 
F 
C 
I never been shot but I
F 
bet you I'm braver
C 
I'm taking my spot, nigga,
G 
F 
C 
I ain't afraid to be me
F 
Sometimes I find it very hard to be,
C 
Em 
Gm 
Em 
who' Me
(The inevitable rise and lib
C 
F 
eration of Niggy Tardust)
G 
Yo the banana

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Verse 2
peels are
C 
F 
Bbm 
carefully placed
F 
So keep your shell toes
C 
Bbm 
carefully laced
F 
C 
The illest nigga got peppered
F 
and maced
G 
C 
Now amplify this,
Am 
Bbm 
turn up the bass
C 
Picture me

Verse 3
F 
lampin' in the company car
C 
F 
C 
Rims like Tibetan prayer wheels,
nigga what' I'm a star
G 
C 
I cruise the block like a
feather back and forth
F 
C 
'Til I  land as the song in your
F 
ear or the book in your hand
C 
Now the whole

Verse 4
G 
C 
fuckin' world
Bb 
'bout to know who I am
C 
F 
C 
Got your whole system up in my trunk
F 
C 
That 'dog eat dog' make my
woofers bark: atomic crunk
All my trill niggas know who
F 
be bringin' da funk
C 
F 
C 
Lees and shell toes like it's
F 
Black History Month
G 
C 
Yo the banana

Verse 5
peels are
B 
C 
Bbm 
carefully placed
F 
Eb 
C 
Bbm 
So keep your shell toes carefully laced
C 
F 
The illest nigga got peppered
C 
D 
G 
and maced
B 
G 
C 
F 
Bbm 
Now amplify this, turn up the bass
F 
Yo the banana

Verse 6
C 
peels are
B 
Bbm 
carefully placed
F 
C 
So keep your shell toes
G 
carefully laced
Bbm 
F 
C 
F 
C 
F 
G 
C 
The   illest nigga got
F 
C 
B 
A#m 
E# 
D# 
E# 
E 
Em 
G 
A 
peppered and maced
G 
Now amplify this turn up
E# 
C 
the bass

Verse 7
There was one bore witness to
the rays of the sun
Synthesized in her own image,
photo negative shun
E# 
The development of Parliament
the phallic bop gun
Thus, the mothership connection
spawned the birth of the drum

Verse 8
Ancient drum begat drum kingdom go,
E# 
kingdom come
Ancient sector of the scepter
risen up to the sun
Hidden hand of man begat
patented clone of the drum
Boom bap strapped into a wire,
tightly coiled and re- spun

Verse 9
Trigger sound, trigger gun,
drum machine, machine gun
Bodies piled, carefully filed under beats
That were once reprogrammed to
become unplugged concert of sun
Every ray with sample clearance,
C 
E# 
every two begat one

Verse 10
Boom bop hard as a gun,
E# 
A# 
white cross- trainers, un  strung
E# 
Let these suckas know the
Am 
G 
C 
cost of making Harriet run
E# 
Let the North Star be your guiding
post when turned from the sun
Until knowledge reigns supreme
over nearly everyone

Verse 11
Yo the banana peels are carefully placed
F 
So keep your shell toes carefully laced
The illest nigga got peppered
and maced
Now amplify this, turn up the bass