BLACK PARADE (Extended Version) Chords

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[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D#] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
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[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] I'm going back to the south I'm [C#m] going back back back back
When my roots ain't watered down Growing growing like a bobob tree
All life on the [D] ground Ancestors put me on game
All [C#] time on gold chain With my old shun energy _
Drink follow me
I'm gonna let you [E] be free
[B] Hold on don't lie, stay like, sucka
[C#] Not your bias and
Your eyes [Em] eyes eyes But don't
[F#m] Let it let it
[E] On my wrist [B] Out
_ [F#] Going up going up, [C#m] motherland motherland drip on [B] me _ [C#] Melanin melanin
My drip is skinny _
_ _ [C#] Motherland motherland motherland
Motherland drip on me
I can't forget my history
It's her story
I've been blind
Maybe that story's the one
[B] They always mad
They always mad
[B] _ I _ [A] know that's the reason why
[G#m] They all be mad
And they [A] always have
[B] Honey come around my way around [F#m] my
Never mama [B] said no Mama said
[A] _ And I told
Mama don't say [F#m] that
But on my [B] parade _ My parade _ _
Talking slick to my
_ _ [A] _ I'm _
[F#m] _ _ _ gonna [E] _ _ [B] _
_ _ let you be free
Hold on don't lie, stay [C#m] like, sucka But don't
On my [B] wrist
Going up going up, motherland _ _ [C#] motherland _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ drip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ on me [F#] Melanin melanin
[C#] My drip is skinny Motherland motherland
I can't forget my history
I watch my crystals in a full moon
You can send them
So I'ma send my _ _ goons
Baby sister rappin' in [B] my yard
Trust me they gon' need an army
[C#m] Rubber bullets bouncing off me
[D#] Met a picket sign up your picky fist
Take it as a warning
[B] Waste beads from your Uber
For [E] honey, Billy, Bess, and Moosa
[F#m] Stroll on through the [C#] barbecue
But it's any day we gon' make it look true
And then me cry on the runway in my hazmat
Children running through the house [E] in my art of black
[B] And sisters on the wall let the girls chit chat
[Em] _ _ [B] Hold my hands we gon' pray [C#] together
Lay it down face down in the gravel
Me wearing all pale white to the funeral
Black love we gon' stay together
Heard a name feel on the speaker
Lil' Malcolm I'm rich with my matina
[G] Need another [B] march let me call Tamika
Need peace [G#] and reference from my people
[B]
These ladies I'ma let it [D#] drip all _ [A#] up
This [A#] fading waves I'ma let it drip [C#] all _ up
This your fifth up in the air show that _ love
[C#m] Motherland drip on [B] me
Motherland, motherland drip on me
Honey come around my way [A] around my
Never [B] mama said so
Mama [A] said it's me
Here I come it's my my brother's day
_ Follow my [B] parade up
My parade [A] up _
[B] Talking sick to my [C#] poor people
[E] Hit that lip like let's go
Hear [F#] them storming right
Peace is known to black
[B] Now here we come, hold my bones
[A] Let it out
Follow [B] my parade My parade
We got rhythm
We [E] got pride
We [B] birthed kings
We [F#] birthed tribes _ Holy _ river [C#] Holy tongue _ _
[B] Glory
_ [C#m] Feel the love
[B] Motherland, Motherland, drip on me.
[A] _ _ Motherland, Motherland, [B] drip on me.
[E] _ _ [B] Can't forget my history.
_ [A] It's her story. _
[F#m] Motherland, drip on me.
[E] Motherland, Motherland, drip on me.
_ Them [A] Blacks, _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C#] they [A] always met [B] here.
Them Blacks, [A] too.
I know that's the reason [B] why they all been there.
They always have been.
Honey, come around my way, [A] around my house.
You'll never [B] make me sad, so mama [A] say, _ [B] here I come.
All my bones, spit it out.
Roll on [B] my blue red, my blue [A] red. _
I can speak to my soul, black or white, black or white.
[B] And I'm scorned and right.
[F#m] These is known to black.
[F#]
Here I come.
All my bones, spit it [A] out.
Roll on [B] my blue red, _ black blue red. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _