Chords for Ursula Rucker - BROWN BOY

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_ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ [A#] _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _
[B] Little [Am] O'Shea the brown boy, _ _
[B] Daddy [C] loves you.
_ [A#] _ _
[B] Little O'Shea [G] the brown [Am] boy, [A] I [B] wonder why [C] Daddy loves you. _
[B] _ Do [A#] his life, so [A] wrong they do. _
[B] _ _ [D#] Do his life, so [A] wrong they do.
[F#] While [C] sewage is how they [Am] viewed his life, [G] _ _
[E] so [C] wrong is how they do [A] his life.
[A#] _ _
[F#] Where to begin with all the [B] tales of sin and [G] strife?
Black [F#] gold, miners, [C] missionaries, [A] murderers.
[A#] Dethroned him from his home.
[F#] Chief [A] to slave, [Am] king to cotton [A] picker, warrior [B] to [C] unhold.
Three [A]-fifths, shit, [A#] brown shit, [B] hog spit, [D] piss, whip, [Am] king's [G] clip, _
[F#] blips [C] on the screen [Am] of America.
[A#] _ _
[C#] Tuskegee [Dm] airmen and experiment [Am] recruits, strange [G] fruits and strangers in the [C#] village.
[C] Recipients of tail-faced [Am] hawing and pillage.
[A#] Black not beautiful, [F#] black like oil [A] spillage.
Diminished to three [G]-fifths of whole.
[F#] His truth shall [C] be told, his [Am] truth should be [A#] told. _
[C#] Little [D] O'Shea the brown [Am] boy, [G] _ _
[B] Daddy [C] loves [Bm] you.
_ [A#] _ _
[F#] Little [D] O'Shea the brown [Am] boy, [G] _
[F#] wonder why [D] Daddy [E] loves you. _
[F#m] _ [A] How would anyone [B] feel, [G] feel, after [E] centuries of [C] humiliation, [B] displacement, castration, [A#] discrimination,
[F#] separated him [D] from manhood and [Am] kin, an [G] eagle [F#] amongst chickens.
[C] One can only [B] imagine, envision [A#] _
[F#] such [A] imprisonment.
Whisked [Am] from bountiful to [G] spartan, forced to exist [F#] on the margin.
[C] Epic memory [A] stricken with the disease [A#] of conditioning. _
[F#] Raising [A] families in the midst of hate, accused of [G] rape, dicks [F#] severed, served [C] upon a plate,
[E] stuck in the mouths of [A#] their oppressors, [F#] food for the fueling of [A] hell's fire.
Son, [B] what would you [G] do?
[C#] You might leave too if [C] you were beat [A] in front of your woman in [A#] songs.
[F#] Helplessness, sun [A] swung from ungiving trees under the [G] southern.
Son, [F#] _ [C] what would you do?
[B] You might [Cm] leave too.
[B] What would you do?
To his [D] life's song _ _
[B] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ they [B] do.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ No [B] _ _ [A] wonder some have run [G] from, omen [F#] of failure, arms [C] of lovers, paternal [A] commitment,
erased [C] themselves from child's vision.
[F#] Ashes [A] to ashes, dust to dust, all to naught, first man, [E] to invisible [C] man,
then back [Am] again, the vicious cycle.
[F#] May the imperfect [D] circle be now broken, it was [Am] designed for your choking.
[G] Breathe, [F#] receive [D] the sovereign [B] legacy of your history, [A#] embrace [F#] past misery,
[D] for the purpose of [Am] strengthening, not excusing.
[A] Ida be [B] fought for, Martin died [C] for, Emmett Till paid a [Am] price, I have cried for [A#] your [C#] _ [D] life.
_ [Am] What [A] will you do with [Em] your [C] life?
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[E] Be [G] the kings you were born to [B] be, be [G] the fathers your [F#] brown boys [C] need.
[B] The brown [A#] boys [B] need.
Be those kings you were born [A] to be, be the fathers [B] your brown boys _ [D] need. _ _
[B] Tell them [D] all, tell them [B] all, brown boy, [D] brown boy.
[F#m] They say young [A] black boys bloom [Am] once first, [G] _ _
[B] _ [D] rejecting people and [Am] illusory [A#] elixirs. _
[B] Like [D] fixes, [Am] cocktails, and toads, and [G] your soul deaths.
[F#] _ _ [C] Basic low [E] vibratory, [A#] catamalytic [F#] behavior.
_ [D] _ Resurrected from blood [G]-root trees, [F#] manufactured [D] disease,
[A] and lying [A#] chalk, demonstrate [F#] God's walk.
May your _ [G] reflection [F#] be your [C] savior, all shades [Cm] of, may your [F#] reflection be [D] your [E] savior,
all shades of, [F#] all shades of, [C] all shades [A] of a brown boy.
[A#] _ _
[F#] Little [D] all shades of [Am] brown boy.
_ [G] _
[F#] Daddy _ [D] loves [Am] you, yes.
[F#] Little, [A] little all shades, [Am] little all [A] shades of brown [B] boy.
[D] Daddy loves [A] you, daddy [C] loves you, [F#] yeah.
Little [D] all shades of brown boy.
_ [G] Daddy [F#] loves [D] you, [A] shades, all [A#] shades.
[F#] Wonder why, [A] _ [Am] wonder [G] why, wonder [F#] why.
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _
[F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _