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Black Woman easy guitar chords by
Fatoumata Diawara
Fatoumata Diawara
Ms. Lauryn Hill
Ms. Lauryn Hill

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Verse 1
Em

Woman cry
Bm

Give life
Em
Bm

Mother Mary and baby,
Em

the burden she carry all time

Woman cry
Bm

When give us life
Em
Bm

And she begs He forgives us the sin and the sinners all time,
Em

whoa
Interlude 1
Em

Verse 2
Em
Bm
Em

Foreign man, take me from land

Banish my name,
Bm

I survived all the same

Enough commotion

Way across ocean
Em
Bm

Through whip and chain I
Em

survived all the same
Verse 3
Em
Am

So them a go make war before we free

Why them a go make war be
Bm
D
Bm

fore we free?
Em
Bm
D

So them a go make
Bm

war before we free
Em
Bm

Why them a go make war
Em

before we free?
Verse 4
Em

Tied my neck

Ship it don't wreck
Bm

Bind me to tree, I survive they will see

Whip they crack

Scar me 'pon my back
Em
Bm
D

Soon we gon' see who
Bm

survive make us free
Em
So
Verse 5
Am

them a go make war
Em

before we free
Am

Why them a go make war be
Bm
D
Bm

fore we free?
Em
Bm
D

So them a go make
Bm

war before we free
Em
Bm

Why them a go make war

before we free?
Em
Follow,
Verse 6

follow
Bm

People they know they follow
Em

People they know they copy
Bm

People all up in my grotto

They see me like a genie,

try to keep me in a bottle
Em

Petty, petty people keep them

incommunicado
Am
They tie
Verse 7

you up in strings

They play niggas like pizzicato
Em
Am

Lose sight of the picture scripture now
Bm

they not so steady

Meanwhile, I'm like Curtis Mayfield

getting people ready
Em
Bm

See into the future then

cut through like a machete
Em
Am
Bm

Or cutlass, all these trappings

leave these niggas gutless
Em
You can't
Verse 8
Bm
Am

make moves for justice
Bm
D

You can't make no adjust
Bm
Em

ments

Drowning in corruption Charlie,
Bm

addict to convenience
Em

Now they got you caught up and call
Bm

ing freedom extremists
Em

We're not in agreement,

I won't lay down politely

I closed my mouth for years
Bm

and they still tried to fight me
Verse 9
Bm

I sat down on the sidelines and

they still tried to bite me
Em
Am

They think they buried my career an
Em
Bm

d promoted my peers to spite me
Em

But they can't tell me nothing Charlie,
Bm

they don't underwrite me
Em

I've had a lot of money thrown at me,
Bm

none of that sh— excites me
Em
Bm

It's just another kind of case

to get up in my psyche
Em
Am

To use me as an instrument to
Bm

further push their puppet show
Em
But I'm not
Verse 10

inexperienced

and this not my first rodeo

I'm not so shallow Charlie,

I call it too precisely
Bm

Sep arate bone from marrow,
Em
Bm

so much soul that they dislike me
Em

Intuitives, Charlie we be like fugitives

Until the universe responds to show

them who the student is
Verse 11
Em
Bm

Woman cry (woman cry)
Em
Bm
Em

Give life (gives us life)
Bm

Mother Mary and baby the burden she carries
Em
Bm

all time (burden she carries)
Em
Bm

Woman cry (woman cry)
Em
Bm

Gives us life (gives us life)

And she begs He forgives us the sin and the sinners
Em
Bm
Em

all time (begs He forgives us)
Am
So them a go make war before
Verse 12
Em

we free
Am
Em

Why them a go make war
Bm

before we free?
Em

So them a go make war
Bm

before we free
Em

Why them a go make war before we free?
Outro 1
Em
Am
Em
Bm
Em

Bm
Em
Bm

Em
Am
Em
Am

Em
Am
Em
Bm
Em
Bm

Em
Am
Em


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