Soulsville Chords by Isaac Hayes

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[Eb] _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] [Eb] Black [Bb] man [Eb] born [Bb] free, [Eb] at least that's the [Bb] way it's [Eb] supposed to [Bb] be.
[Eb] Chains that [Bb] binds him are [Eb] hard to [Bb] see, [Eb] unless you [Bb] take this [Am] walk with me.
[Gm] _ _
[Cm] Place where he lives [Gm] has got [Cm] plenty of names.
[Gm] _ _ Slums, [Cm] ghetto and black belts, _ [Gm] they are one [Eb] and the same and I [Bb] call it.
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_ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] Any kind of job is [Eb] hard to [Bb] find, that means an increase in [Eb] the welfare [Bb] line.
Crime rate is [Eb] rising too, [Bb]
if you [Eb] were [Bb] hungry what would you [Am] do?
[Gm] _ [Bb] Red [Cm] is two months past due, [Gm] _ in a building that's [Cm] falling apart.
_ [Gm] _ Little boy [Cm] needs a pair of shoes, _ [Gm] and this is only [Eb] a part [Bb] of.
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_ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] Some [Eb] older [Bb] brothers got [Eb] plenty of [Bb] cash, tricks on the corner, gonna see [Eb] to [Bb] that.
Some like to smoke, and [Eb] some like to [Bb] blow, some are even strung out on a [Am] fifty [Bb] dollar jones.
Some are [Cm] trying to ditch reality, [Bb] _ by [Cm] getting so high.
[Gm] _ _ [Cm] Only to find out, _ [Gm] you can [Eb] never touch the [G] sky, cause your roots [Bb] are in, oh yeah.
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_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ Every Sunday morning, [Eb] I [Bb] can hear [Eb] your [Bb] sister [Eb] say,
[Bb] Hallelujah, [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] trust in [Bb] the [Eb] Lord, [Bb] _ oh [Am] yeah.
[Gm] _ [Bb]
I [Cm] hope that you hear the [Gm] prayers, cause deep in their [Cm]
souls they [Gm] believe,
_ Someday [Cm] He'll put it in, [Gm] all this [Cm] misery that we're [Bb] having, _ [Eb] [Bb] oh [Eb] yeah.
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