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Black Messiah chords by
The Kinks
The Kinks

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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
D


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Chords
  • A

  • F#m

    2
  • E

  • G

  • D

  • F#

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • Fdim

    3

Capo: 3

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