Proud to Be Black chords by
Run‐d.m.c.
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Verse 1
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G G 
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You know I'm proud to be black y'all
And that's a fact y'all
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G G 
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Em Em 
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And if you try to take what's mine
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Em Em 
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I take it back y'all - it's like that
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G G 
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Verse 2
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Licki- licki- licki- licki- licki- licki- licki- licki-
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Em Em 
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Listen party people here's a serious song
D D 
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It's right not wrong,
I should say right on
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I gotta tell you somethin'
that you all should know
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D D 
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It's not a mystery it's history
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and here's how it go
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F#m F#m 
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Now Hariett Tubman,
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E E 
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was born a slave
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She was a tiny black woman,
when she was raised
She was livin' to be givin' there's
a lot that she gave
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There's not a slave, in this day and age
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I'm proud to be

Verse 3
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Black, god damn, I'm tired my man
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D D 
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Don't worry bout what color I am
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D D 
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Because I'll show you how ill,
this man can act
It could never be fiction cause it is all fact
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And if you get in my way,
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I  will not turn back
I'm proud of my name,
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D D 
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my name is Darryl Mack
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I'm black and I'm proud,
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A A 
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and I'll say it out loud
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F#m F#m 
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Em Em 
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A A 
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I'll share my story with the whole crowd,
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E E 
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D D 
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augghh!
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You know I'm proud to be

Verse 4

black y'all

F#m

And that's a fact y'all

F#m

And if you try to take what's mine

I take it back y'all, it's like that

Verse 5
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A A 
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DJ Run, and I run these things
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You can hear it loud and clear like
when the school bell rings
Like Martin Luther King, I will do my thing
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I'll say it in a rap cause I do
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F#m F#m 
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not sing
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D.M.C., the man, that's

Verse 6
causin' the beef
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I got a message for the world
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so listen up it's brief
Like Malcolm X said I won't
turn the right cheek
Got the strength to go the length,
if you want to start beef
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Start beef!
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Verse 7
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You know I'm proud to be black y'all
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D D 
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And real brave y'all
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And motherfucker I could
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never be a slave y'all
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So take that!!"

Interlude 1

F#m

Verse 8
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We're gonna tell ya somethin'
put your mind in a swirl
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God bless the next baby
that comes in this world
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The world's full of hate
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discrimination and sin
People judgin' other people
by the color of skin
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D D 
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I'll attack this matter, in my own way
Man, I ain't no slave,
I ain't reelin' no hay
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D D 
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Written a  deposition,
in any condition
Don't get in my way cause
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I'm full of ambition
I'm proud to be black (and I
D D 
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ain't takin' no crap)
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I'm fresh out the pack
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(and I'm proud to be black)
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D D 
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So take that!!
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D D 
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Verse 9
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There was a man, an inventor,
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who invented so well
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He invented a fortune,
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for a man named Bell
George Washington Carver,
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made the peanut great
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Showed any man with a mind, could create
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You read about Malcolm X,
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in the history text
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G G 
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D D 
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Jesse Owens broke records,
Ali broke necks
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D D 
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What's wrong with ya man?
How can you be so dumb?
Like Dr. King said,

Outro 1
'We shall overcome!'
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G G 
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D D 
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