Chords for WHITEBOY

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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ I cannot [Dm] feel guilty for shit that I didn't do
But I can understand the reasons why you think that I should
Yeah I'm white but I never put your neck in no [G] noose
And I never burnt a [Bb] cross or hit my face with a [Dm] hood
You can't just label me racist cause I'm related to people
Who did some terrible shit way back before I was alive
My parents brought me up to treat everyone as an [Gm] equal
I refuse to feel ashamed cause of my pretty blue [Dm] eyes
Fuck a Nazi, fuck a white supremacist
Fuck anyone who labels me as that because of my family genetics
The hatred for Caucasians is so fucking pathetic
[G] Don't be proud that you're [C] black but don't hate me for some [Dm] credit
I'm not the white devil, neo-Nazi, cop trying to pull the trigger
You can call me what you want but I'd still never say
The white race as a whole ain't the [G] enemy
There's racist white people but we're far from that [Dm] collectively
White boy, don't say [Bb] that
White boy, oh you so [Dm] bad
[F] White boy, you wish you were [Gm] black
White boy, dear [Dm] white boy
White, you [Gm] know what I'm saying
Shit I can't say with my white [F] voice
White boys, white lies
Don't tell me how to see it through my [Dm] white eyes
If a black man is sipping on some cognac sitting next to me
I don't assume that every black's favorite drink is Hennessy
I don't dislike Tanisha cause her first name isn't [Gm] Stephanie
Not only is that wrong, it's a [Dm] fucking waste of energy
Ivory or ebony, 45 or 17
We all bleed the same, Martin Luther King or Kennedy
They're angry, I'm reciting the [Gm] facts
He's white and he raps
He stole the culture right from the [D] blacks
Okay he's fire but we lit the flame
He's siphoning gas
So fuck this party little honky man
The whitey's whack
[Dm] He letting history repress
He wait to hate you within
And then you paint me with the brush you painted slave owners with Yeah
White boy, don't say [Bb] that
White boy, oh you so [Dm] bad
[F] White boy, you wish you were [Gm] black
White boy, dear [Dm] white boy
White boy, white, you [Gm] know what I'm saying
_ _ [F] Boys, white, boys, white
Lies, don't tell me how to [E] see it through my white [D] eyes
I got a mother, a father, a sister, an auntie, an uncle, and a grandma
That I picture when you're openly hating
[Dm] And God willing, one day I'll have a kid of my own
[Gm] I refuse to let you [Bb] blindly hate my wife or my baby
[Dm] So go ahead and hate the racist
I pray for their extinction
If you wanna hate the white people, just make the distinction
Between the ones who want the best for everyone [Gm] regardless
And the ones who built a system just to smother you with [Dm] hardship
Stop before you say it, I know what you've been [Bb] thinking
How's a straight white male in 2018 [F] bitchin'?
You're making me the villain by demonizing my [G] race
For things I didn't [D] do and decisions I didn't [Dm] make
No one that I call a friend has ever owned a [Bb] slave
And neither did our dads or our dad's dads
[F] Fuck's sakes, acknowledging atrocities were wrongly committed
[G] Is [D] all that I can offer while I'm wrongly convicted
[Dm] I would never hate a man for what God gave him in pigments
[Bb] And I would never plot against him just because he is different
[F] I would never judge a human for the cards he was given
[G] Or call him lesser than myself cause of the [Dm] race that he's mixed with
White people that you hate aren't your neighbors or lawyers
They're the Rockefellers, [Bb] Rothschilds, Bushes and [F] Royals
They're the people who monopolized the water and oil
[D] And injected your communities with drugs till they spoiled
Got no patience for Nazis, I think they're better off dead
[C] They're fighting hatred with hatred, [Bb] making the hate more intense
[Am] I don't want nothing to do with either side of the fence
[D] So don't blindly attack me for wearing braids on my head
Hate the people who believe you put yourselves in the ghetto
[C] Hate the ones who teach their [Bb] children you ain't shit cause they said [Am] so
Hate the [C] ones who think you're all the same and judge you [D] profusely
Cause the way that you're portrayed on our news and in movies
[Dm] Being white and being [D] racist aren't the same man I promise
[Bb] Know it's hard to tell the difference if I'm just being honest
[F] I deserve the chance to show you I'm not part of the problem
[B] And you owe it to yourselves, we got so much in common
[Dm]
White boy, don't say [Bb] that
White boy, oh you [Dm] so bad
[F] White boy, you wish you were [Gm] black
White boy, [D] dear white boy
[Dm]
White boy, white
You know [Gm] what I'm saying, shit like that
_ [F] Voice, white boys, white
Lies, don't tell me how to see it through my [Dm] white eyes
White boy, don't say [Gm] that
White boy, oh you so [Dm] bad
White boy, you wish you were black
White boy, dear white boy
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