Artist: John Gorka
Song:   Ignorance & Privilege
Album:  So Dark You See, 2009, Blue Chalk Records & Red House Records

Capo 5

G (320003@1)                                    C/GI (3x555x@1)was born to ignorance yes and lesser poverties
              G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)I was born to privelige that I did not see
                Em (022000@1)                       Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) 
Lack of pigment in my skin, won a free and easy in
       G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)     C/G (3x555x@1) GDidn't (320003@1)know it but my way was paved

I grew up a catholic boy in a northeastern state
A place when asked, "Where you from?"
Some people tend to hesitate, reply a little bit late
As if maybe you didn't rate
I was born to ignorance and privilege

My dad ran a printing press in a tag and label factory
May have seen it as a child, now a distant memory
Almost too faint to see, dark red brick factory
Didn't know it but my way was paved

We moved from a city street shortly after I arrived
To a house on a gravel road where I learned to be alive
Crawl, walk, run and ride, that's where I learned to come alive
Didn't know it but my way was paved

C/G (3x555x@1)          D/A (x00232@1)  G (320003@1)If the wind is at your back
C/G (3x555x@1)          D/A (x00232@1)  GAnd (320003@1)you never turn around
C/G (3x555x@1)          D/A (x00232@1)  G (320003@1)   F#Em  
You may never know the wind is there
Am7 (x02010@1)                   D/AYou (x00232@1)may never hear the sound

Got to grow and go to school, work at home and dream at night
Even be a college fool, like I had any right
Never went through a war, never Great Depression poor
Didn't know it but my way was paved

Am (x02210@1)                    D/A (x00232@1)Nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel
Am (x02210@1)                   D/ABack (x00232@1)against the wall, maybe you know how it feels

[solo over verse chords G (320003@1)C/G (3x555x@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)Em (022000@1)Am (x02210@1)C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)C/G (3x555x@1)G]

If the wind is at your back
And you never turn around
You may never know the wind is there
You may never hear the sound

I was born to ignorance yes and lesser poverties
I was born to privelige that I did not see
Lack of pigment in my skin won a free and easy in
Didn't know it but my way was paved

Am (x02210@1)          D/A (x00232@1)           C/G (3x555x@1) G (320003@1)'cause I was born to ignorance and privilege