Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud [Part 1] chords by
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Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Uh, with your bad self
Say it louder (I'm Black
and I'm proud)
Say it louder (I'm Black
and I'm proud)
Verse 2
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Looky here
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Some people say we got a lot of malice
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Some say it's a lotta nerve
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But I say we won't quit moving
Until we get what we deserve
We've been 'buked and we've
been scorned
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We've been treated bad,
talked about
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As sure as you're born
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But just as sure as it take two eyes to make a pair,
huh
Brother, we can't quit until
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we get our share
Verse 3
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Say it loud (I'm Black and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I'm Black and I'm proud)
One more time,
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say it loud (I'm Black and I'm proud)
Verse 4
I've worked on jobs with my
feet and my hands
But all the work I did
was for the other man
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And now we demands a chance
To do things for ourselves
We're tired of beating our heads
against the wall
Verse 5
And working for someone else
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Say it loud (I'm Black
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and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I'm Black
and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I'm Black
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and I'm proud)
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Say it loud (I'm Black
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and I'm proud)
Verse 6
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Ow! Ooh-wee, you're killing
me
Alright, uh, you're out of sight
Alright, so tough, you're tough enough
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Ooh-wee, uh, uh, you're killing me, ow
Verse 7
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Say it loud (I'm Black and I'm proud)
Say it louder (I'm Black
Verse 8
and I'm proud)
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Now we demand a chance
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to do things for ourselves
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We're tired of beating our heads
against the wall
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And working for someone else
Look here, there's one thing more
I got to say right here
Now, we're people,
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we're like the birds and the bees
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And we'd rather die on our feet than
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keep living on our knees
Verse 9
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Say it loud (I'm Black
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and I'm proud)
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Say it loud (I'm Black
and I'm proud)
Say it loud (I'm Black
and I'm proud)
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy,
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say it loud (I'm Black and I'm proud)
Ow!
Verse 10
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Uh, alright now
Lordy
You know we can do the boogaloo
Now we can say we
do the Funky Broadway
Now we do

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