Black Is Beautiful chords and lyrics - CHRONIXX

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[Verse 1]
[Am]We l[G#]ove t[Am]he ch[Dm]ildren[Am]
of [Em]Africa[Am][G]
[Dm]Teaching the [Am]children
Oh na na na [Gsus4]na[Dm]
La da da [Am]da
[C][Am]

[Verse 2]
[Em]
[Am]Black eye, black hair, black skin
Black queen stand majestic
with the black king
Today [Em]I'll sing you a black song
You need [Am]to hear about beautiful
black things 'cause
Most time we hear [Em]about black,
we hear [Gsus4]about bla[G]ck magic and[Dm] black witches
[Am]Black list, black book[C], black market
[Am]Black Friday,
ya spend [Em]off your black [Am]riches
I've never seen a doc[Em]tor in black [G]nor seen
a black pill fi cure [Dm]no black pe[Em]ople
[Am]But I've seen bush doc[Em]tors like Tosh and Mar
[G]ley resur[C]rect like a [Dm]real [Am]black beatle
Malcom, Mar[Em]cus, Martin
When you see [G]Walter Rod[Dm]ney ask him
[Am]How you nuh hear about Howel[C]l often
[Am]So when the little offspring askin[Em]g,
tell [Am]them

[Verse 3]
They never [Em]told [Gsus4]us
[G]that bla[Dm]ck is beautiful[Am]
They never [Em]told us,
[Gsus4]black is [C]bea[Dm]uty
[Am]They never told [Em]us[Gsus4]
that [Dm]black is beauti[Am]ful
They never [C]told us,
[Am]they never told us [Em]black [Dm]is beautiful
[Em][Dm]

[Verse 4]
[Am]
You ah be[Em]have and ah gwaan like you
[G]never spend [Dm]500 years pon a farm
[Am]The same chain you a[Em]h wear and a gwaan is
another black [G]life in Si[Em]erra Leone
[Am]Dem find out mama eart[Em]h got gold then
[G]Dem mine out mama [Dm]earth black soul then
[Am]You work hard just fi [C]get ah black card
Same [Am]card weh you swipe buy back
your black gold then
Hol' on, I see nuff faces [Gsus4]long
But [Dm]this is not a racist [Am]song
This is a song for the children [Gsus4]who was never
[G]told [Dm]about where their race is [Am]from
They never [Em]hear it in [Am]de
m favourite [G]songs
Everybody [Dm]calm, ah say slavery's done
What a go gwaan when the babies [Am]come
And start read 'bout [Em]things [Am]like
Dogons,[Em]black Kemet and Kush
[Gsus4]Black kings, black sen ates [Dm]and books
[Am]Weh teach 'bout pyrami[Em]ds and put
Real [G]significance to we [Am]physical [Em]looks
[Am]So every word weh [Em]mi say black
In [Am]my world ev[Dm]erything black
[Am]Black white, white black[C] right back
So [Am]don't be surprised when
mi [Em]say mi king black
[Am]They never

[Verse 5]
[Em]told [Gsus4]us
that [Dm]black is beautiful
[Am]They never told [Em]us, [C]blac[Dm]k is beauty
[Am]They never told [Em]us[Gsus4]
that [Dm]black is beauti[Am]ful
They never [C]told us, [Am]they never told us black is beautiful

[Interlude 1]
[Em][Gsus4][Dm]
[Am][Em][Gsus4][G][Dm][Am][Em][Gsus4]
[Dm][Am][C][Am]

[Verse 6]
Preacher is [Am]preaching, good God,
things that [Dm]he preaches
I [Am]wonder who taught him to
[Gsus4]preach[G]
[Am]Teacher is teach[Em]ing,
[Gsus4]where did he [G]get his[Dm] degree?
[Am]Now it is no m[C]ystery,
[Am]who taught us black [Em]history
Ease [Am]up