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	C	G
	Everybody got the	right to speak their mind

Bb F f g g# (single notes)

so don't shoot me for saying mine.

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
	Everybody	talking about racial eq	uality

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
'cos	everybody's	equal in the good Lord's	eyes.

	F	C	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
But	if I told you that	God was black what would you	think of that

	F	C	F
	I bet you wouldn't bel	ieve it.

	F6	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
There's a	self made prophet	living right next to	me

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
he said the	Black Messiah's gonna	come and set the whole world	free	.

	F	C	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
He	looked at me with his	evil eye and he	prophesied

F C F f g g# a

and he really believed it.

	A7	Dm	A7	Dm
He said a	Black Mess	iah is	gonna set the world on	fire

	F	C	C7	F
and	he's no	liar, 'cos	he has truly heard the	word.

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
	Everybody	talking about racial eq	uality

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
but I'm the	only honky	living on an all black	street

	F	C	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
they	knock me down 'cos	they brown and	I white	.

	C	G
	Everybody got the	right to speak their mind

Bb F f g g#

so don't shoot me for saying mine.

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
	Everybody	talking about racial eq	uality

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
you hear	everybody	talking about equal	rights.

	F	C	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
But	white's white,	black's black and	that's that

F C F f g g# a

and that's the way you should leave it.

	A7	Dm	A7	Dm
Don't want no	Black Mess	iah to	come and set the world on	fire

	F	C	C7	C13	F
a	Black Mess	iah is	gonna come and	rule the	world

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
	Everybody got to	show a little give and	take

	F	A7	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
	Everybody got to	live with a little less	hate

	F	C	Dm	Dm/C	Bb
	Everybody gotta	work it out, we gotta	sort it out.

	C	G
	Everybody got the	right to speak their mind

	Bb	F
	so don't shoot me for saying	mine.

	--
	pjoe@charon.muc.de

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Black Messiah

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