Brother Louie chords by
Code Red
Code Red

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Key: A minor
Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
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She was black as the night
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Blue, it was whiter than white
Danger, danger,
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when you taste brown sugar
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Louisville in love over wine
It was a storybook romance
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They met in high school, sweethearts
Shared their first kiss on a slow dance
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They used to hold hands,
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walkin' through the halls
Ignoring the glances and the rumors,
they had no chance
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They called him Wigga and
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Susie a gold digger
This corny white boy
shouldn't be datin' no sister
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They tried to hate
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but wouldn't say it to his face
People thought Louie was
a traitor to his race
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Black and white, they both had is sues
Suzie got hated on for acting white
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So at lunch they were sitting in
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the corner by themselves
You could tell that they didn't fit in
They might as well keep
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the whole thing hidden
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It wasn't taboo,
it was damn near forbidden
If mom and dad knew they could
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never go home
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They would both be disowned
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To make things worse,
she was five months and shown
So they packed two bags
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and eloped that night
That's the last time
that family ever spoke
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Cause the last thing they left
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when they bounced together
There was a note
on the dresser
saying goodbye but
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I wasn't was black as the night
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Susie was whiter than white
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Danger, danger when you
sniff white powder
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Louis fell in love overnight
They said she had jungle fever
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But he was just saving the last dance
The whole hood thought that he
needed the CAT scan
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Suzie, when she walked in,
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she lit up the room
And Louie held the hand
all the brothers were givin'
it to him
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They yelled out, use us, sell out
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But he was flying high on
the wings of love
With no button to bail out
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So they got hassled everywhere
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that they went
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Even at church the pastor
laughed after sayin' amen
They were the laughingstock
Plus the talk of the
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town couldn't pass
They got harassed simply
walkin' around
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Once the black girls find out
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there was no talkin' them down
They used to hoot and fuss
Louie, you think you too
good for us?
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They called Suzie a nigga lover
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and Louie a sambo
After a couple of months,
it was too much to handle
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So they began to meet in secret,
they weren't in marriage
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But Suzie's parents found
a proposal to be indecent
And Louie's parents,
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they feared for his life
Having crosses burned in the yard
that appeared in the night
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Called the cops,
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but they refused to accept his statement
They knew about the relationship
and were blatantly racist
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The next day they found
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Louie hung from a tree
In front of Suzie's house
for all the townspeople to see
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It was early one Sunday morning
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and during the ninth hour
With a note in his chest that said,
Respect White Power
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Louie hadn't done any wrong
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Louie fell in love on his own
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Danger, danger when you
cross that border
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But Louie knew he wasn't alone
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