Chords for Soulsville (Album - Remastered)

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