Key: A major
Verse 1
always dress in black
Why you never see bright
C
G
And why does my appearance
C
G
seem to have a somber tone?
and the beaten down,
A
Living in the hopeless, hungry side of town.
C
G
I wear it for the prisoner
C
G
who has long paid for his crime,
who've never read,
C
G
About the road to happiness
G
A
Why, you'd think he is talking
In our streak of lightnin' cars
C
G
But just so we're reminded
C
G
of the ones who are held back
A
D
Up front there ought to be a man in black
For the reckless ones
C
G
I wear the black in mourning
C
G
for the lives that could have been
who have died
C
G
I wear it for another hundred
C
G
thousand who have died
A
D
Believing that we all were on their side
G
Well, there's things that never will be right,
I know
And things keep changing
C
G
But till we start to make a move
C
G
to make a few things right
A
D
You'll never see me wear a suit of white
And tell the world that
C
G
But I'll try to carry off a
C
G
little darkness on my back
D
G
I'm the man in black you
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