Intro : B5 A#5  E5  ( E5 G5 A#5 ) 
 
B5                                     A#5 
Four hundred years or more  
E5                                       ( E5 G5 A#5 ) 
Since you came to crucify  
B5                                                 A#5 
They were taken far away from home  
E5                                       ( E5 G5 A#5 ) 
There were promises of paradise  
                                        B5 
But if they had been told that day  
                              A#5 
They would be told that this way  
E5                                       ( E5 G5 A#5 ) 
To satisfy the souls of chosen man  
                                        B5 
See I had to look carefully  
                              A#5 
At the shame of my ancestry  
E5                                       ( E5 G5 A#5 ) 
To redefine the storyline again  
 

                A5 
If I was taken for a day  
             G5 
And shown another day  
       C5                                Db5 
Every child can learn a different thing  
                A5 
See I tried a million times  
             G5 
But I had to change my mind  
       C5                                Db5 
Sadness was the best thing I could bring  
                A5                                                     G5 
On the inside he was dead and this is what he said  
       C5                                Db5 
As he took away the blue above the clouds  
                A5                                                     G5 
Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be  
       C5                                Db5 ( C5 B5 ) 
So destiny will manifest in time  
 

( B5 A#5 E5  ( E5 G5 A#5 ) ) 
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