Intro : Bm7 A#? Em9 ( Em7 G7M A#? ) Bm7 A#? Four hundred years or more Em9 ( Em7 G7M A#? ) Since you came to crucify Bm7 A#? They were taken far away from home Em9 ( Em7 G7M A#? ) There were promises of paradise Bm7 But if they had been told that day A#? They would be told that this way Em9 ( Em7 G7M A#? ) To satisfy the souls of chosen man Bm7 See I had to look carefully A#? At the shame of my ancestry Em9 ( Em7 G7M A#? ) To redefine the storyline again Am7 If I was taken for a day Gm7 And shown another day Cm7 Dbm9 Every child can learn a different thing Am7 See I tried a million times Gm7 But I had to change my mind Cm7 Dbm9 Sadness was the best thing I could bring Am7 Gm7 On the inside he was dead and this is what he said Cm7 Dbm9 As he took away the blue above the clouds Am7 Gm7 Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be Cm7 Dbm9 ( Cm7 Bm7 ) So destiny will manifest in time ( Bm7 A#? Em9 ( Em7 G7M A#? ) ) So where has all the love gone? A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale Of how I was put down where I don't belong Woman, child and man for sale For ethical slavery is just an absurdity How can you be alive when you are dead With these chains of hipocrisy The shame of my ancestry Forever strained in blood in which you tread
