Chords for Rooftop ReP - BLACKNESS [Dir. by Kacee Devoe]

_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ November [Cm] 23 National Anthem _
[G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ Mama said.
Mom said, Mama said, Mama said, Mama said, Mama said, Mama said, Mama said,
[G] _
Mama say, _ _ _ Mama said.
Mama said, Mama told me never be ashamed of my [Ab] blackness.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm [Ab] a black man.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
I'm a [Ab] black _ _ [G] man.
_ [Dm] I'm a black [G] man. _ _
I'm a black man.
I'm a black [Ab] man.
You should totally [D] come with us.
The whole wild world going crazy over [G] black man. _ _ _
Take a look at my [Ab] life.
Feels like I got a spotlight [G] on me.
Even with the lights out.
[B] Somebody can't take their eyes off me.
[G] I know scrutiny when I see it.
[Eb] Feels like a trial that you know you ain't [G] beating.
Know you innocent but they choose not to see.
Like your name Ray Charles, maybe Stevie.
Reasons, reasons.
[Ab] Where's the truth when you need [D] it?
Even with our hands [G] up.
Get choked out for breathing.
Being black is quite [Ab] hard.
We make it look [A] easy.
The system [Dm] trying to break us.
Five-O trying to kill [G] me.
Mind racing, I'll admit it.
[Ab] Think about different ways, oh I'm a get it.
[D] _
Gotta stack candles, cause the [G] fam gotta eat like Thanksgiving.
Pray I make it home by dinner time.
[Ab] Sorry I was late, I was trying to stay [D] alive.
You know black folks is really on [G] time.
But when they show up, it's the time of your life.
Mama told me never be ashamed of my [Ab] blackness.
_ _ [D]
Coppers in the hood trying to reign on my [G] blackness. _ _ _
Unappreciated, you should never bleach your [Ab] blackness.
_ [D] Cause the whole wild world going crazy over [G] blackness. _ _
Mama told me never be ashamed of my [Ab] _ blackness.
_ [D]
Coppers in the hood trying to reign on my [G] blackness. _ _ _
Unappreciated, you should never bleach your [Ab] blackness.
_ [D] Cause the whole wild world going crazy over [G] blackness.
_ _ [Dbm] _ _
Black girl, [Ab] thick thighs, strong mind, [G] my type.
Growing up hard on the east side.
Growing up hard on the west side.
Coming up hard on the [Cm] south side.
Don't they know we trying to get by?
Don't they know we trying to get by?
Don't you know we gonna get by?
Rolling, rolling, [Ab] rolling, rolling down these [Dm] streets.
Please won't you just [G] pray, won't you pray for me?
Rolling, rolling, [Ab] rolling, rolling down these [Dm] streets.
Please won't you just pray, [Db] _ won't you pray for [G] me?
Hold up, wait [Ab] a minute.
Right around, when [D] I'm spinning.
They all up in my juice like [G] great Kool-Aid.
How many of us they gonna try to kill today?
I'm melanated, I know I'm unique.
[Ab] Stay woke like a runner from sleep.
Hard [D] to close my eyes when it ain't a dream.
God's [G] gift to this world, gotta be the blackest thing that I ever seen.
Mama told me never be ashamed of my [Ab] blackness.
_ _ [Gm]
Coppers in the hood trying to reign on my [G] blackness. _ _
Unappreciated, you should never bleach your blackness.
_ [D] Cause the whole wild world going crazy over [G] blackness.
_ Mama told me never be ashamed of my [Ab] blackness.
_ _ [D]
Coppers in the hood trying to reign on my [G] blackness. _ _
Unappreciated, you should never bleach your [Ab] blackness.
_ _ [D] Cause the whole wild world going crazy over [G] blackness.
_ _ Black art, black art, black [Eb] art.
All I see is black art.
[G]
Black art written on a white wall.
Luminate the world like it's nightfall.
Dark nights, black [Ab] kings.
Black queens, black skin.
Black pride, blackness.
[G] Black art, black art.
Mama told me never be ashamed of my [Ab] blackness.
_ [D] Coppers [Dm] in the hood trying to reign on my [G] blackness. _ _
Unappreciated, you should never bleach your [Ab] blackness.
_ [Dm] Cause the whole wild world going crazy over [D] blackness.
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