Key: C
Introduction:
C G Bb F
Everybody got the right to speak their mind, so don't shoot me for
saying mine.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
Everybody talk about racial equality,
F A7 Dm7 Bb
'Cos everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes.
F C Dm7
But if I told you that God was black? What would you think of that?
F C F
I bet you wouldn't believe it.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
There's a self-made prophet living right next to me,
F A7 Dm7 Bb
He said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free.
C F
He looked at me with his evil eye and prophesied. And he really
believed it.
F A7 Dm7 A7 Dm7
He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire.
F C C7
And he's no liar, 'cos he has truly heard the word.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
Everybody talk about racial equality.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
But I'm the only honky living on an all black street.
F C Dm7 Bb
They knock me down 'cos they brown and I white.
Bb F
Everybody got the right to speak their mind, so don't shoot me for
saying mine.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
Everybody talk about racial equality,
F A7 Dm7 Bb
Yeah, everybody talk about equal rights.
F C Dm7
But white's white, black's black and that's that.
Bb F C F
And that's the way you should leave it.
F A7 Dm7 A7 Dm7
Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire.
F C C7
A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
Everybody got to show a little give and take.
F A7 Dm7 Bb
Everybody got to live with a little less hate.
F C Dm7 Bb
Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out.
Bb F
Everybody got the right to speak their mind, so don't shoot me for
saying mine.