Elaine brown (interlude) chords by Alicia Keys

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Verse 1
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Can I do one more really quick?
So he said blow black mother, black mother
He always announce the title black mother,
this is rap
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This is hip hop, this is all that,

Verse 2
from the street
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Poetry from the street
Black mother
I must confess that I still breathe
Though you are still not free
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What could justify my crying start
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Forgive my coward's heart
But blame me not the sheepish me
For I be sleeping in a deep, deep sleep
And I be hazed and dazed
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And vipers fester in my hair
Black mother, I curse your drudging years
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The rapes, heartaches, sweat and tears
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But I swear I'll seize
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night's dark and gloom
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A rose I'll wear to honor you
And when I fall
A rose in hand
You'll be free, and I a man
For a slave of natural death who dies
Can't balance out two dead flies
I'd rather be without the shame
A bullet lodged within my brain
Black mother