Chords for Janis Ian - Society's Child

[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Ebm] _ [D] _
_ [Eb] _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Fm] _ [G] _ _
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_ _ [B] _ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ [Cm] _ Come to [F] my door, baby
[Cm] _ Face as clean [F] and shining black as the night
[Cm] My mother went [F] to answer, you know [Cm] that she looks so [Bb] fine
_ [F] _
[Bb] Now I could understand your tears and your [D] shame
She called you boy instead of your [Gm] name
When she wouldn't let you _ [Eb] inside
When she turned and said, but honey, [F] he's not our kind
[Eb] _ [F] _
She [Am] says, I can't see [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Am] me
_ Can't see you
[D] Walk _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ me down [F] to school, [Cm] baby _ _ _
[F] Everybody's acting deaf and blind
[Cm] _ Until they turn [F] and say, why don't you stick to [Cm] your own _ [F] kind
_ [Bb] My teachers all laugh, they're smirking and stare
[D] _ Couldn't beat them in our _ [Gm] affairs _
Preachers of _ equality
_ [Eb] Think they believe it's been white, _ just [F] let us [Bb] _
be
[F] _ They [Am] say I can't see you when [Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Am]
it burns
[D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] One of these days [Fm] I'm gonna stop my [Cm] listening
Gonna raise my head up [F] high _
_ [Cm] One of these days I'm gonna [F] raise a mic, listen [Cm] and wings and fly
_ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] But that day will have to wait for a _ [Gm] while
[D] Baby, I'm only a society _ [Gm] child
When we're older things may [Eb] change
But for now there's no way it [F] _ may
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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