Black Messiah chords by The Kinks
Verse 1
A
F#m
E
Everybody got the right
to speak their mind
G
So don't shoot me
D
for saying mine
F#
Everybody talking about
Bm
G
racial equality
D
F#
'Cause everybody's equal in
Bm
G
the good Lord's eyes
D
A
But if I told you that God was black
Bm
G
What would you think of that
D
I bet you wouldn't
A
D
E
F#
believe it
Verse 2
Bm
F#
There's a self made prophet
Bm
G
living right next to me
D
F#
He said the Black Messiah's gonna come
Bm
G
and set the whole world free
D
A
He looked at me with his evil
Bm
G
eye and prophesied
D
A
D
E
And he really believed it
F#
He said a Black
Verse 3
Bm
Messiah is
F#
Bm
gonna set the world on fire
D
A
And he's no liar,
D
''cause he has truly heard the word
F#
Everybody talking about racial
Bm
G
equality
D
F#
But I'm the only honky living
Bm
G
on an all black street
D
A
They knock me down ''cause they
Bm
G
A
brown and I white
Verse 4
E
Everybody got the right to speak their mind
G
D
F#
Bm
So don't shoot me for saying mine
G
D
F#
Bm
G
D
F#
Everyobody talking about
Bm
G
racial equality
D
F#
You hear everybody talking
Bm
G
about equal rights
D
But white's white,
A
Bm
G
black's black and that's that
D
And that's the way
A
D
E
you should leave it
Fdim
F#
Don't want no
Verse 5
Bm
Black Messiah to
F#
Bm
come and set the world on fire
D
A
A Black Messiah is gonna
F#
A
come and rule the world
D
F#
Everybody got to show
Bm
G
a little give and take
D
F#
Everybody got to live
Bm
G
with a little less hate
D
A
Everybody gotta work it out,
Bm
G
A
we gotta sort it out
E
Everbody got the right to speak their mind
G
So don't shoot me for saying mine
Outro 1
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Black Messiah
The Kinks
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