Chords for Damian & Ziggy Marley & Buju Banton - I Know You Don't Care

_ [F#m] _ _ From the slave ship to the chain, from the [A] [Bm] taskmaster's whip to my brain, kidnapped and
slaved, raped and killed [F#m] by the lynch clan again and again.
Is it the [Bm] origin of the skin or the face of race?
[F#m] Why you [E] don't care [F#m] about me?
_ Now I know you don't care about me.
_ I'm [Bm] just a nigga walking down the street.
_ The [F#m] broad that did nothing wrong, [Bm] but now his life is gone.
[F#m] So I know you [E] don't care about [F#m] me.
_ _ _ Code of silence, they said.
_ Yet [Bm] your actions speak so loud and clear.
_ The [F#m] hollow skin that's going free, paid [Bm] by society.
Now [F#m] I know you [E] don't care [F#m] about me.
_ [F#] We should be burning and looting, believe [C#] me.
Start exchange [F#] 41 to 90.
[B] Our ancestors were the least conscious.
And our tics and [E] whips and [F#] kicks and punches.
Meanwhile you're living like some Brady [B] Bunches.
Tell me where the justice, much less the [F#] taxes.
We're worth much [E] more than the thinking [F#m] taxes.
And we need _ _ more_
Rape means touch, kill and maim.
[Bm] Their injustice remains the same.
_ _ [F#m] Killing the people in the Queens name.
[Bm] No one will get to blame.
[F#m] And our people [E] keep going down [F#m] the drain.
_ _ _ All these crimes done to me,
_ [Bm] will be written in black history.
_ _ [F#m] Crimes of injustice and humanity,
[Bm]
perpetrated by society.
[F#m] My people [E] are living in [F#m] poverty.
_ _ _ My struggle for survival is to be accepted and treated as a member [Bm] of this human family.
This should reveal the fundamental [F#m] right and duty to be humane in all [Bm] judgment and actions of all humanity.
[F#] So why don't [E] you care about [F#m] me?
_ _ Say I know you don't care about me.
_ [Bm] I'm just an eagle walking down your street.
_ The brother [E] did [D] nothing wrong,
[E] but now his life is gone.
And I know you don't care about [F#m] me.
_ _ _ Code of silence you say.
[F#] _ _ Your action [F] is so loud and [B] clear.
_ [E] _ [F#m] Idealist killers go free.
[Bm]
Paid by society.
[F#m] And I know [E] you don't care [F#m] about me.
_ I'm a do-de-a-lo, they kill him for nothing.
No crime he didn't do.
[Bm] And just like him, there were others who suffered for what they didn't do.
[F#m] But if any of us is sick, we are [Bm] the victims.
And that is so true.
[F#m] I'm a do-de [E]-a-lo.
_ [F#m] _
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[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F#m] Reggae [E] music knows [F#m] your name.
_ _ Code of silence you say.
[G#] _ _ [B] Yes, your action speaks so loud [F] and clear.
[E] _ [F#m] The idealist killers go free.
Paid [Bm] by society.
_ [F#m] And I know [E] you don't care [F#m] about me.
Yo, baby, check this out.
It's kind of strange how the same thing's been happening.
_ [F#] [Bm] Over and over again.
Over and over again.
[F#m] And they say their constitution's [Bm] for the benefits of all.
It's [F#m] all a lie, [E] yeah.
It's [F#m] all a lie, yeah.
Tell [E] me when will this injustice change?
Tell me when.
Tell me [B] when will we stop feeling pain?
Feeling pain.
Just [F#m] the way we survive.
[Bm] In their eyes it's _ [F#m] a_
You're to [E] blame for all [F#m] that's beginning this way.
Yes, we know you don't care about me.
Yes, we _ [Bm] know.
Yes, we know you don't care about me.
Yes, we know.
[F#m] Yes, we know you don't care about [Bm] me.
_ Yes, we [F#m] know.
Yes, [E] we know.
Yes, [F#m] we know.
_ Now I know you don't care about me.
_ [Bm] I'm just a n***a walking down your street.
_ [F#m] Look, right, I did nothing wrong.
[Bm] But now this life is gone.
[F#m] So I know [E] you don't care about [F#m] me.
_ _ You want to talk right down to earth
in a language [Bm] that everybody here can easily understand.
We all agree tonight, [F#m] all of the speakers have agreed
that America has [Bm] a very serious problem.
Not only [F#m] does America have a very [E] serious problem
but our people [F#m] have a very serious problem. _ _ _ _ _
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