Black man chords by
Alexander Hitchens

N/A

Key: D minor•

Verse 1
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Am Am 
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Gm Gm 3
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Bb Bb 
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Black man born, black man dies
Black man mourns, black man cries
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Black man tries to wipe his eyes
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But      black man told
to raise his hands up high
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Black man told he can't take a knee
Just shut up and dribble,
you belong to me
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Black man stressed.
Black man sighs.
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Black man learns
how to play both sides.
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Black man wants.
Black man needs.
Does anybody care about what
the black man sees?
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Asus4 Asus4 
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They tell a black man it's the home of the free but
won't let that black man live on they street.
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Black man grief.
Black man pain.
Black man weeps because of
black man's shame.
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Dm Dm 
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Black man in chains built this thing.
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Dm Dm 
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America exists because of
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the black man's frame.
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black man's kids, black man's wife,
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taken from his life, sold off twice, black man
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anger, black man rage, but a black man can't show
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Bb Bb 
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that because of the black man cage.
Growing up, the
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OG's used to tell me, as a black man, you gotta be twice as good,
you know, you gotta be twice as smart, twice as strong,
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twice as pa  tient.
Most importantly, they said,
you gotta be twice as careful,
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Cause we  don't got the margin
everybody else do.
Check.
You gotta be smart.
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Dm Dm 
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Bb Bb 
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Smart.
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Dm Dm 
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Am Am 
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Eb Eb 6
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Am Am 
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Bb Bb 
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Navigating how I'm living
in this black skin
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Back then, had to watch out for the
Ku
Klux
Klan
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In 2022, it's the new
Klux
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Klan
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Traded in the hood for a gun and a badge
But you trying to blame me
cause I ain't got no dad
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When it was your own people
that sold us off
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Broke up all our families
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so you'd be well off
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It's crazy that like 60 years later
we're still dealing with
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symptoms of problems that are so deeply
embedded in the psychology of our nation
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You know, we cry over bad fruit,
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but we don't realize it's the byproduct of bad roots.
We gotta get to the root of the issues.
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Am Am 
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Asus4 Asus4 
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Eb Eb 6
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Gm Gm 3
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