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I Wanna Be Black Chords

Music by: Lou Reed
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[Intro 1]
[G][C]
[G]

[Verse 1]
I want [G]to be black
Have natural rhythm
Shoot twenty feet of [Em]jism, too
[C]And fuck up Jews[G]
I want to be black
I want to be a Panther

[Verse 2]
Have a [G]girlfriend named Samantha
And have a stable of foxy [Em]whores
[C]Oh I want to be [G]black

[Verse 3]
[Chorus:] I don't [D]want
to be a fucked up,
middle [Em]class,
[G]College student anymore
I just [D]want to have a stable of
[G]fox[C]y lit[G]tle whores
Yeah, [C]yeah [G]I w[C]ant t[Cm]o be bla[C]ck[G][C]
I want to [G]be black

[Verse 4]
[C][G][C][D][G]
[C][G]
I want to be like Martin Luther King
And get myself shot in spring
And lead a whole generation [Em]too[C]
And fuck up the Jew[G]s

[Verse 5]
I want to be [G]black,
I want to be like Malcolm X
And cast a hex over President
Kennedy's [Em]tomb
[C]And have a big prick, too

[Verse 6]
[Chor[G]us]

[Outro 1]
[G][D][G][D][G]
[C][G][C][G][C][G][C][G]
[C][G]
[C][G][C][G][C][G][C]
[G][C][G][C][G][C][G][C][G]
[C][G]
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