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I'm Black / Ain't Got No Chords

Music by: Galt Macdermot
Tone E minor BPM 143 Views 8
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[Verse 1]
[Em]I'm black, I'm black[G]

[Verse 2]
I'm [Em]pink, [Bm]I'm [G]pink
[Bm]I'm

[Verse 3]
[Em]Rins[G]o white[A]
[Bm][Bdim]

[Verse 4]
[Bm]I'm [Em]in- v[C]is-[D] i-[Bm] ble[D][Em]

[Verse 5]
Ain't got no home (so) [Em]Ain't
got no [G]shoes (poor)
Ain't got no [Em]money (honey)
Ain't got no [G]class (common)
Ain't got no [D]scarf
Ain't got [Bm]no gloves (cold)
Ain't got no [Em]bed (beat)
Ain't got no [C]pot (busted)
Ain't got [G]no [D]faith (Catholic!)

[Verse 6]
Ain't got no [Em]mother (orphan)
Ain't got no [G]culture (man)
Ain't got no [Em]friends (lucky)
Ain't got no [G]schoolin' (dumb)
Ain't got no [D]shine
Ain't got no [Bm]underwear (bad)
Ain't got no [Em]soap (dirty)
Ain't got no [C]A- Train
Ain't got [G]no [D]mind (lost it)
Ain't got [Em]no smokes (shit) Ain't

[Verse 7]
[Em]
got no [G]job (lazy)
Ain't got no [Em]work
Ain't got [G]no coins
Ain't got no [D]pennies (hustle)
Ain't got no [Bm]girl (horny)
Ain't got no [Em]ticket
Ain't got [C]no token (walk)
Ain't got no [G]God [D](good!)

[Verse 8]
Ain't got no [Em]grass (can't take
no trip)
Ain't got no [G]acid
(can't blow my mind)
Ain't [Em]got no clothes
(you're full of puss)
Ain't got [G]no pad (you're full of piss)
Ain't [A]got no [D]apples (we got balls)
Ain't got [Bm]no knives
(can't cut you up)
Ain't got no [Em]guns (we got
bananas)
Ain't got no [C]garbage
(white trash)
Ain't got [G]no draft card (burned it, burned [Bm]it,
[F#]burned it)

[Verse 9]
Ain't got no [Bm]earth
Ain't got no fun
Ain't got no bike
Ain't got no pimples
Ain't got no [D]trees
Ain't got no air
Ain't got no [A]wa ter
City, banjo, toothpicks, shoelaces
Teachers, football, telephone, records
Doctor, brother, sister, uniforms
Machine guns, airplanes, germs
M- 1 (bang bang bang)
M- 2 (bang bang bang)
A bombs, H bombs,
P bombs, Q bombs
Chinese, Czechs, Hindus,
Bindus
Italianos, Polacks, Germans
Youse, Jews

[Verse 10]
Up and downs
[Em]Vietnam, Johnson, [A]High school, sex
[Em]Coffee, books, food, scissors,
magazines, news

[Verse 11]
Cigarettes, [Em]Hollywood, Tuesday [A]Weld
[Em]Bur ton- taylor,

[Verse 12]
pop art, pop [A]off,
pop[Em]corn

[Verse 13]
Popsicle, Andy War[A]pop, pop paper
[Em]Pop up,

[Verse 14]
Popeye, poppers
Napalm, England,
outer space
Astronauts, Jesus [A]Air, air, air,

[Verse 15]
[A]
air
[D]Air
[A]Air[D]
[A]Air[D][A]
[Bm]Ain't got no

[Verse 16]
[Em]home
Ain't got no [G]shoes
Ain't got no [Em]money
Ain't got [G]no class
Ain't got [D]no scarf
Ain't got no [Bm]gloves
Ain't got no bed
[Bb]Ain't got [Bbaug]no pot[D]
Ain't got no [E]faith
[G#dim]Ain't got no Go[E]d[G]

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