Chords for Backlash Blues

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_ Mr.
_ Backlash, _ _ [Gm] Mr.
_ Backlash, [C] _ _ _
who do you think I am? _ _
_ You raise my taxes and raise my wages, send [A] my [Em] only son to [F] Vietnam.
_ _ You give [D] me second class [F]
holidays, _ _ second [D] class [C] schools.
_ _ I know you [G] think [C] all colored people are just [Bb] second class [Em] fools.
_ _ [G] Mr. _ _ _
Backlash, [F] _ _ _ _ I'm [D] gonna leave you [C] with the _ blues, [Bb] yes [A] I [G] _ am. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ When I try to find a job _ _ to earn a little _ cash, _ _ _
all you got to offer is your mean old white backlash.
_ [F] _ _ _ But [Dm] the world is big, big and bright and round,
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[Bb] and [C] it's full of other folks like me, who are black, yellow, [G] beige and brown. _
[F] _ [E] Mr.
_ _ [Dm] Backlash, _ _ I'm gonna [C] leave you with the _ blues, yes [G] I _ am.
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_ _ _ _ I tell you when Langston _ Hughes, [Bb] when he died,
[C] _ he told me [Bb] many times [C] before, he said,
[Bb] you need to keep on [C] working till they [Bb] open up the door now.
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] When you finally made [C] it and the doors are [Bb] open wide,
[C] _ make sure you hand me all the wet facts,
so they'll have no other place to hide.
[Am] _ _ _ I'm telling you, _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ you _ [F] _ _ _ _ can _ [D] leave me, _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I'm gonna [D] _
leave [C] you with the blues, _ [G] yes _
_ [A] _ [C] I am. _ _ _ _
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