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I Am The Black Book chords by 
Dixie Drifter
N/A•
Verse 1
G
C
G
C
I am the black book.
Ah...
G
C
Between my top and my bottom,
D
my right and my left,
C
Bm
I hold what I have seen,
Em
what I have done, what I have thought.
G
Am
I am everything I have hated.
D
Labor without harvest,
death without honor,
G
C
life without land or law.
I am a black woman
holding a white child in her arms,
singing to her own baby,
Bm
Em
Am
D
lying unattended in the grass.
G
And I'm all the ways I have failed.
C
I am the black slave owner,
Cm
the buyer of golden peacock bleach cream
C
Bm
and Dr. Palmer's skin whitener.
Em
The self -hating player of the dozens,
E
Am
D
G
I have my own nigger joke.
C
I am the black book.
I am all the ways I survive.
D
C
I am Tunmush,
Bm
Em
hoecake cooked on a hoe
Am
D
I am 14 black jockeys
G
winning the Kentucky Derby
C
I am the creator of hundreds
of patented inventions
G
I am Lafitte the pirate and Marie Laveau
I am Bessie Smith
winning a roller skating contest
C
G
I am quilts and ironwood,
Gsus4
C
fine carpentry an d lace
Cm
G
I am the wars I fought,
the gold I mined,
the horses I broke,
A
G
A
G
Cm
G
the trails I blazed.
A
G
A
I am the black book.
G
Cm
G
Cm
C
I'm all the things
Cm
G
I have seen.
The New York Caucasian newspaper,
the scarred back of Gordon,
C
the slave, the draft riots,
D
C
darky tunes and merchants distorting my face to sell bread,
D
C
Bm
Em
Am
soap, shoe polish, coconut.
D
G
And I am all the things I have
C
ever loved.
G
Scoopin' on wine,
cool baptisms in silent water,
A
G
dream books and number play,
and the sound of my own voice
Cm
G
singing sangaree,
and ring shouts and blues,
ragtime and gospels,
I am mojo, voodoo,
C
G
C
G
and gold earrings.
I'm not complete here,
there is much more,
but there is no more time,
and no more space.
And I have journeys to take,
and ships to name, and crews.
I am the Black Book.
You
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