U, Black Maybe chords by Common
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Intro 1
(Gsus4) (A minor) (E major)
(A minor) (D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(Bdim) (B minor) (E major)
(A minor)
Verse 1
Can't come around (A minor)
They gon' (D minor) wanna bring you down (A minor)
No one knows just what's inside
Doing (D minor) dope and doing time (A minor) (G major)
(A minor) Why they (D minor) messing with your mind
Black maybe
(B minor) (E major) (A minor)
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Verse 2
I heard (D minor) a white
man's yes is (A minor) a black maybe
I was delivered in this world
as a crack baby
Hard (D minor) for me to pay attention
and (A minor) I act crazy
Gotta (D minor) get over from the tip,
I watch the fat lady
Sing (Bdim) a song,
(B minor) on how we guer (E major) illas in warfare
(A minor) And I'm the kingest kong
They say we dreaming wrong
(D minor) Them same strips that them
older (A minor) cats lingered on
Now the Walgreens is gone,
hope is killed fiends are born
(D minor) We leanin on a wall that
(A minor) ain't that ain't stable
It's (D minor) hard to turn on
the hood that made you
To leave we (B minor) afraid to
The same streets (E major) that raised
you can age you
(A minor) With other black birds that's caged too
A rage up (D minor) in Harlem and the southside
(A minor) Brothers is starving with
their mouth wide open
Floating across state got (D minor) the workout
plans so they (A minor) can move weight
The (D minor) fate of the black man, woman,
and (Bdim) (B minor) child: maybe
(E major)
Verse 3
(A minor)
Can't come around
They gon' (D minor) wanna bring you down (A minor)
No one knows just what's inside
Doing (D minor) dope and doing time (E major) (A minor)
Why they (D minor) messing with your mind
Black maybe
Can (B minor) 't
Verse 4
(E major) (A minor) come around
They (D minor) gon' wanna bring you down (A minor)
No one knows just what's inside
Doing (D minor) dope and (A minor) doing time
Why they (D minor) messing with your mind
Black maybe
(Bdim) (B minor) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 5
He had game since (D minor) he used
to hoop at Chatham
(A minor) Neither the ghetto nor
defenders could trap him
The stones had (D minor) his back and
they'd pat him (A minor)
He was living a life (D minor) they
couldn't fathom
Colleges getting (Bdim) at (B minor) him
with all type (E major) of scholarships
Even if he (A minor) went they knew
he'd leave college quick
For the (D minor) pros the one from the
(A minor) hood that was chose
The black rose that grew in the jungle
But humble stud (D minor) still
had (A minor) rumble in his blood
Wo (D minor) men all around giving him trouble love
(B minor) You know the love when
you up (E major) they down
Cause you wrap (A minor) a ball they round
Your win is their crown
(D minor) Dudes in the circle he (A minor)
known for years
Shared beers and cheers but
chose different careers
(D minor) When paper and fame came they ain't
(A minor) know how to react
(D minor) Them same studs shot
him in the back
Now that's black, (B minor) maybe
(E major)
Verse 6
(A minor)
Can't come around
They gon' (D minor) wanna bring you down (A minor)
No one knows just what's inside
Doing (D minor) dope and doing time (A minor)
Why they (D minor) messing with your mind
(Bdim) Black (B minor) (E major) (A minor) maybe
Verse 7
Can't come around (A minor)
They gon' (D minor) wanna bring you down (E major) (E minor)
(A minor) No one knows just what's inside
Doing (D minor) dope and doing time (E major)
(A minor) Why they (D minor) messing with your mind
Black may (Bdim) (E major) be
(A minor) (D minor)
Verse 8
(A minor)
When we talk about black (D minor) maybe (A minor)
We talk about situations (D minor)
Of people of col (A minor) or (D minor) and
because you are that color (Bdim)
You endure obstacles (E major) and opposition
(A minor) (D minor) And not all the time from, (A minor)
from other nationalities (D minor)
Sometimes (A minor) it come from your own kind (D minor)
Or maybe even your own (Bdim) mind (E major) (A minor)
You get judged, (D minor) you get laughed (E major) at,
(A minor) you get looked at wrong (D minor)
(E major) You get (A minor) sighted for not being strong (D minor)
(Bdim) The struggle of just being
(E major) you (A minor)
The struggle of just being us, (D minor)
(A minor) black maybe
Interlude 1
(A minor) (D minor) (A minor) (D minor)
Verse 9
(B minor) Black (Bdim) may (B minor) (E major) be
Verse 10
(A minor) Can't come around
They gon' (D minor) wanna bring you (A minor) down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing (D minor) dope and doing (A minor) time
Why they (D minor) messing with your mind
Black (Bdim) may (B minor) (E major) be
Outro 1
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(A minor)
(D minor)
(A minor) (D minor) (Bdim) (E major)
(A major) (E major) (E major)
(A minor)
U, Black Maybe
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