Chords for Rainbow Man

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[C#] I was born in Alabama, [G#] but I never knew my mama.
[C#] She gave me away at three [F#] months old.
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[C#] Some folks in Mississippi [G#] took me in and kept me, [B] and treated me just like I was [F#] their own.
_ [A#m] A holiness [G#] preacher, [F#] man's daughter, _ [D#m] and a hard [F#]-working [G#] sharecropper father.
My [C#] real mama was Apache, my [G#] real daddy, hell, don't ask me.
[B] Mama says she don't [F#] remember him, and I'm [C#] sure somewhere in my history, [G#] I've got some
slave blood in me.
[B] And some folks think that I look [F#] Mexican.
_ _ [A#m] I never [G#] really fit in [F#] any place, _ [D#m] cause there's always [F#] a part of me [G#] you hate.
_ [F#] I'm the Rainbow Man, _ _ _ [C#] that's who I am. _ _ _
[G#] I'm a little white and black and [C#] red and tan.
I've [F#] got all these [C#] different colors in [D#m] my skin.
[G#] _ [C#] I'm the Rainbow Man. _ _ _ _
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_ Well I know you may doubt it, [G#] but if you stop and think about it, [B] there's one common thing
that we've [F#] all got. _ _
[C#] People from all countries [G#] come here because they're hungry [B] for what's cooking in America's [F#] melting pot.
_ _ _ [A#m] We're [G#] all different [F#] but the same. _ _
[D#m] Red's the only color in [G#] our veins.
_ [F#] I'm the Rainbow Man, _ _ _ _ [C#] living in a rainbow land. _ _ _
[G#] I'm white and black and yellow and [C#] brown and red and tan.
And I'm [F#] so proud of [C#] all the colors that [D#m] I am.
[G#] _ [C#] I'm the Rainbow _ Man.
_ All [F#] these colors [C#] make me [D#] American. _
[G#] _ [C#] I'm the _ Rainbow Man. _ _ _ _
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