Black Messiah Chords by The Kinks

_ _ _ [Am] Everybody got the [G] right to speak their [Bb] mind, so don't shoot me for saying [F]
mine.
_ _ _ [A] Everybody talk about [Dm] racial equality, [Bb] _ _ [F] cause [A] everybody's equal in the [Dm] good lord's eye.
[Bb] _ _ [F] But if I [C] told you that God was black, [Dm] what would you think of that?
_ [F] _ I bet you [C] wouldn't believe it.
[F] _
_ _ There's a self-made [A] prophet living right [Dm] next to me.
[Bb] _ [F] He said the black [A] messiah's gonna come and set the [Dm] whole world free.
[Bb] _ _ [F] He looked at [C] me with his evil eye [Dm] and he prophesied, [Bb] _ _ [F] and he [C] really believed it.
[F] _
_ [A] He said the black _ _ [Dm]
messiah _ [A] is gonna set the world [Dm]
afire.
_ [F] And _ he's [C] no liar, _ cause he has truly [F] heard the word.
[A] Everybody talk about [Dm] racial equality, [Bb] _ [F] but I'm the only [A] punk living on [Dm] an all-black street.
[Bb] _ _ [F]
They knock me [C] down cause they brown [Dm] and I [Bb] white.
_ [C] _
_ Everybody got the [G] right to speak their [Bb] mind, so don't shoot me for [F] saying mine.
[Fm] _ _ [F] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _
[A] Everybody talk about [Dm] racial equality, [Bb] _ _ [F] _
[A] yeah, everybody talk about [Dm] equal rights.
[Bb] _ _ [F]
But white's [C] white, black's [Dm] black, that's that, [Bb] _ _ [F]
and that's the [C] way you should leave it.
[F] _ _ Don't [A] want the _ _ _ [Dm] messiah to [A]
come and set the world [Dm] afire.
_ [F] A black _ _ [C] messiah is gonna come and rule [F] the world.
[A] Everybody gotta show a little [Dm] give and take, [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ [Dm] less hate.
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ [C] Everybody gotta work it out, [Dm] we gotta sort it out.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ Everybody [G] got the right to speak their mind, [Bb] so don't shoot me for [F] saying mine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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