Blood Brothers Chords by Ken Boothe

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_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Growing up on the streets of Birmingham, _ _ _ where your home was torn _ and your life was damned.
_ _ _ [Bb] I was a hungry black boy, [Gm] when he was the world on my back.
[Eb] _ _ Billy was a white man's son, [Ab] living in a one room _ shack.
We [Cm] lived in those days, _ in the Alabama _ _ heat.
_ We shared what we had, but we never had enough to eat. _
Mama said [Fm] it didn't look right, black [Eb] looks don't look _ white.
[Ab] _ [Db] But Billy was our [Cm] friend, and we swore one rainy night.
_ _ _ To be _ _ _ proper, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lord [Ab] I loved him, _ life [Cm] and love. _
_ _ _ _ We were _ _ blood _ _ [F] _ brother, _ _ _ right to [Cm] the _ end.
_ _ [Ab] He came, _ _ well well well, _ [Cm] turned 18, _ and we had no place to go.
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] Cause how long can you watch God grow?
_ _ _ [Bb] Billy said he got some money, put us on [Gm] the first Greyhound bus.
_ _ [Eb] New York City lights, [Ab] gonna be greeting us.
_ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ Uptown lights, kept us in _ poverty.
_ _ _ Need to abuse, _ but we suffered in dignity. _ _
Billy couldn't [Fm] take 9, 5, if so [Ab] he'd stay _ alive.
_ [Db] He said to me one day, we [C] ain't gonna be _ deprived.
_ _ _ _ You're [Cm] my _ blood, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] and I love you _ _ like [Cm] no _ other.
_ We were _ blood, _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ right to [Cm] the _ _ end.
Well [Ab] well well, _ _ _ _ [Cm] so much did change, _ _ as the days went by.
_ _ And the money rolling, _ _ _ we were living high.
_ _ _ [Bb] He didn't have to tell me, he [Gm] was breaking the law.
[Eb] _ I knew it was him, the man [Ab] worth looking for. _
_ And [Cm] the story goes, _ _ that he caught a knife. _
_ And he pushed his luck, _ _ _ and it cost his life. _
I [Fm] sat down and I cried, on that _ [Ab] rainy _ night.
When [Db] I heard on the news, [C]
one patient _ [G] had died.
_ _ _ [Bm] He [Cm] was my _ blood _ _ _ brother, _ _ _ and [Ab] I loved him _ like [Cm] no other. _
_ He was my blood _ _ _ _ _ brother, _ _ _ [Ab] and I loved him _ _ like [Cm] no other. _ _
He was my brother, _ _ my _ _ brother, _ and [Ab] we shared the common love. _
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