Black Woman
Black Woman

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

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  • Verse 1
    Woman 
    cry 

    Give 
    life 

    Mother 
    Mary 
    and 
    baby, 

    the 
    burden 
    she 
    carry 
    all 
    time 

    Woman 
    cry 

    When 
    give 
    us 
    life 

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

    whoa 

    Interlude 1

    Verse 2
    Foreign 
    man, 
    take 
    me 
    from 
    land 

    Banish 
    my 
    name, 

    survived 
    all 
    the same 

    Enough 
    commotion 

    Way 
    across 
    ocean 

    Through 
    whip 
    and 
    chain 

    survived 
    all 
    the 
    same 

    Verse 3
    So 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 
    before 
    we 
    free 

    Why 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 
    be

    fore 
    we 
    free? 

    So 
    them 
    go 
    make 

    war 
    before 
    we 
    free 

    Why 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 

    before 
    we 
    free? 

    Verse 4
    Tied 
    my 
    neck 

    Ship 
    it 
    don't 
    wreck 

    Bind 
    me 
    to 
    tree, 
    sur
    vive 
    they 
    will 
    see 

    Whip 
    they 
    crack 

    Scar 
    me 
    'pon 
    my 
    back 

    Soon 
    we 
    gon' 
    see 
    who 

    sur
    vive 
    make 
    us 
    free 

    So 
    Verse 5
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 

    before 
    we 
    free 

    Why 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 
    be

    fore 
    we free? 

    So 
    them 
    go 
    make 

    war 
    before 
    we 
    free 

    Why 
    them 
    go make 
    war 

    before 
    we 
    free? 

    Follow, 
    Verse 6
    follow 

    People 
    they 
    know 
    they 
    follow 

    People 
    they 
    know 
    they 
    copy 

    People 
    all 
    up 
    in 
    my 
    grotto 

    They see 
    me 
    like 
    a genie, 

    try 
    to 
    keep 
    me 
    in 
    bottle 

    Petty, 
    petty 
    people 
    keep 
    them 

    incommunicado 

    They tie 
    Verse 7
    you 
    up 
    in strings 

    They play 
    niggas 
    like 
    pizzicato 

    Lose 
    sight 
    of the 
    picture 
    scripture 
    now 

    they 
    not 
    so 
    steady 

    Meanwhile, 
    I'm 
    like Curtis 
    Mayfield 

    getting 
    people 
    ready 

    See 
    into 
    the 
    future 
    then 

    cut 
    through 
    like 
    machete 

    Or 
    cutlass, 
    all 
    these 
    trapping

    leave 
    these 
    niggas 
    gutless 

    You can't 
    Verse 8
    make 
    moves for 
    justice 

    You can't 
    make 
    no 
    adjust

    ment

    Drowning 
    in corruption 
    Charlie, 

    addict 
    to 
    convenience 

    Now 
    they 
    got 
    you 
    caught 
    up and 
    call

    ing 
    freedom 
    extremists 

    We're 
    not 
    in agreement, 

    won't 
    lay 
    down 
    politely 

    closed 
    my mouth 
    for 
    years 

    and they 
    still 
    tried 
    to fight 
    me 

    Verse 9
    I sat 
    down 
    on 
    the sidelines 
    and 

    they still 
    tried 
    to 
    bite 
    me 

    They 
    think 
    they buried 
    my 
    career 
    an

    d pro
    moted 
    my 
    peers 
    to spite 
    me 

    But 
    they 
    can't 
    tell 
    me 
    nothing 
    Charlie, 

    they 
    don't 
    underwrite 
    me 

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

    none 
    of 
    that 
    sh— excites 
    me 

    It's 
    just 
    another 
    kind 
    of 
    case 

    to get 
    up 
    in 
    my 
    psyche 

    To use 
    me 
    as 
    an instru
    ment 
    to 

    further 
    push 
    their 
    puppet 
    show 

    But 
    I'm 
    not 
    Verse 10
    inexperienced 

    and this 
    not my 
    first 
    rodeo 

    I'm not 
    so shallow 
    Charlie, 

    I call 
    it too 
    precisely 

    Sep
    arate 
    bone 
    from marrow, 

    so 
    much soul 
    that they 
    dislike 
    me 

    Intuitives, Charlie 
    we be like 
    fugitives 

    Until 
    the universe 
    responds 
    to show 

    them who 
    the student 
    is 

    Verse 11
    Woman 
    cry (woman cry) 

    Give 
    life 
    (gives us life) 

    Mother 
    Mary 
    and 
    baby 
    the 
    burden 
    she 
    carries 

    all 
    time 
    (burden she 
    carries) 

    Wo
    man cry (
    woman cry) 

    Gives 
    us 
    life 
    (gives us life) 

    And she 
    begs 
    He 
    forgives 
    us 
    the sin 
    and 
    the sinners 

    all 
    time 
    (begs He 
    forgives 
    us) 

    So them 
    go make 
    war 
    be
    fore 
    Verse 12
    we 
    free 

    Why 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 

    be
    fore 
    we 
    free? 

    So 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 

    before 
    we 
    free 

    Why 
    them 
    go 
    make 
    war 
    before 
    we 
    free? 

    Outro 1






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