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DO SOL
Everybody got the right to speak their mind
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so don't shoot me for saying mine.
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
Everybody talking about racial equality
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
'cos everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes.
FA DO REm REm/DO SIb
But if I told you that God was black what would you think of that
FA DO FA
I bet you wouldn't believe it.
FA6 LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
There's a self made prophet living right next to me
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
he said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free.
FA DO REm REm/DO SIb
He looked at me with his evil eye and he prophesied
FA DO FA FA SOL SOL# LA
and he really believed it.
LA7 REm LA7 REm
He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire
FA DO DO7 FA
and he's no liar, 'cos he has truly heard the word.
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
Everybody talking about racial equality
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
but I'm the only honky living on an all black street
FA DO REm REm/DO SIb
they knock me down 'cos they brown and I white.
DO SOL
Everybody got the right to speak their mind
SIb FA FA SOL SOL#
so don't shoot me for saying mine.
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
Everybody talking about racial equality
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
you hear everybody talking about equal rights.
FA DO REm REm/DO SIb
But white's white, black's black and that's that
FA DO FA FA SOL SOL# LA
and that's the way you should leave it.
LA7 REm LA7 REm
Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire
FA DO DO7 DO13 FA
a Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
Everybody got to show a little give and take
FA LA7 REm REm/DO SIb
Everybody got to live with a little less hate
FA DO REm REm/DO SIb
Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out.
DO SOL
Everybody got the right to speak their mind
SIb FA
so don't shoot me for saying mine.
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