Chords for Wattstax - I Like The Things About You from Wattstax

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[E] wish my hair was [A] fine _ [E]
and I can [Ab] remember _ [A] when
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I wish my lip [B] were [A] thin.
Oh, now _ I wonder, _ _ should [G] I [E] be surprised?
_ I like the things [B] about [E] me.
[Em] I [A] like the things about me.
[B] I like the [E] things [B] about [E] me.
[A] I like the things about me that I [Em] once found.
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ Yeah.
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Y'all, _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ let Pop rap to [A] you a little bit now.
_ [G] _ [E] _ All right on.
_ _ [A] Little [E] boy down in Mississippi, you know, _ [D] he was having [Ab] such a hard [E] time. _
_ [A] And he didn't [G] know why.
[E] Very little to eat.
Few clothes [A] to wear.
[G] _ _ [E] _ Looked down at himself and he saw he was [A] a little black boy, you [G] know.
[E] _ [Em] And he said, I wanted it [A] because I'm black [G] because he could see [E] the other nationalities
and he was having such [A] good time.
[Em] [E] He had a little one-room school to go to.
[D] _ [E] _ And the white kids could go to town.
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ [E] Nice school riding in nice [A] school [G] buses.
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And they were trying to [A] make an issue [G] of busing.
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Well, busing is [A] no issue to Pop.
[E] _ They've been busing ever since I can remember, y'all.
Yeah, right on. _ _
They're [D] just busing a certain [E] time, you know. _
And I looked around and [A] I said, this ain't no [E] place for me here.
It's too hard.
[Em] We [G] don't have nothing.
We [E] don't know nothing. _
But then [A] I begin to read [G] about [E] all the fine, _
_ [D] great, [G] creative black [E] men. _
Like George [D] Washington Carver, the great [G] scientist.
[E] _ Do you know the first [Eb] open-heart surgery
was run by [E] a black doctor? _
Right on, [A] y'all.
[G] That made me begin to feel pretty good.
_ We somebody.
I [E] just want to let a lot of young people here today.
[D] _ [G] I just want [E] to let you know we are somebody.
_ _ [Am] Everybody's [Em] somebody, right? _
[Am] Say right on, then.
[G] _ _ All right. _
_ [E] Everybody's somebody.
_ We [Em] got them all over.
It's in [A] every [G] line.
[E] We got musicians.
_ [A] [G] Can score, [E] _ write, _ [D] produce, _ [Em] play music, sing.
_ Who would you rather have any more,
who can do it any better than our [E] own
black Moses Isaac Hayes, y'all?
[Dm] _ _ [C] [E] Right on.
Yeah.
_ We somebody, y'all.
_ I want to tell you one thing.
[A] No [G] nationality can [E] go through what the [G] black people
went through and still [A] survive like we do, [Em] right? _ _
And we somebody.
_ I [E] can say like my friend, Jane Brown, today.
I can say it loud.
_ I'm black and I'm proud.
I'm not sane [G] anymore.
I like the [E] things about me.
I used to despise.
We [A] used to have that, [E] you know, half faith. _
[Em] _ [Dm] So we got our natures now.
[E] We're down to our nature thing, right?
_ [Am] Yeah.
[E] Look at Pop.
Trying to wear my nature, my sideburns.
_ All right, Pop, go ahead.
Yes, sir.
I like the things about me.
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_ _ ♪ There's no different [A] than you [G] [E] ♪
♪ How you make me [A] feel [Em] ♪
[E] ♪ I've done reached the point [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] ♪
♪ Where I feel _ I'm tired of living _ _ _ [G] in [E] the sky _ [B] ♪
♪ I like the things about me ♪
♪ [A] I like the things about me ♪
[B] ♪ I like the [E] things about me ♪
♪ [A] I like the things about me that I [E] want to spy on you ♪ Yeah. _ _