Black Woman Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]Woman cry
Give [Bm]life
[Em]Mother [Bm]Mary and baby,
the burden she carry all [Em]time
Woman cry
When give us [Bm]life
[Em]And she [Bm]begs He forgives us the sin and the sinners all time,
[Em]whoa

[Interlude 1]
[Em]

[Verse 2]
[Em]Foreign man, take me [Bm]from [Em]land
Banish my name,
[Bm]I survived all the same
Enough commotion
Way across ocean
[Em]Through whip and [Bm]chain I
survived all the [Em]same

[Verse 3]
So [Em]them a [Am]go make war before we free
Why them a go make war be
[Bm]fore we [D]free?[Bm]
[Em]So them [Bm]a go make[D]
[Bm]war before we free
[Em]Why them a go make[Bm] war
before we [Em]free?

[Verse 4]
[Em]Tied my neck
Ship it don't wreck
Bind me to tree, I sur[Bm]vive they will see
Whip they crack
Scar me 'pon my back
[Em]Soon we gon' [Bm]see w[D]ho
sur[Bm]vive make us free
[Em]So

[Verse 5]
them a [Am]go make war
before we [Em]free
Why them a [Am]go make war be
[Bm]fore [D]we [Bm]free?
[Em]So t[Bm]hem a go m[D]ake
[Bm]war before we free
[Em]Why them a go ma[Bm]ke war
before we free?
[Em]Follow,

[Verse 6]
follow
[Bm]People they know they follow
[Em]People they know they copy
People [Bm]all up in my grotto
They see me like a genie,
try to keep me in a bottle
[Em]Petty, petty people keep them
incommunicado
[Am]They tie

[Verse 7]
you up in strings
They play niggas like pizzicato
[Em]Lose [Am]sight of the picture scripture now
they not so [Bm]steady
Meanwhile, I'm like Curtis Mayfield
getting people ready
[Em]See [Bm]into the future then
cut through like a machete
Or [Em]cutlass, all these [Am]trapping[Bm]s
leave these niggas gutless
[Em]You can't

[Verse 8]
[Bm]make moves for [Am]justice
[Bm]You can't make no [D]adjust
[Bm]ment[Em]s
Drowning in corruption Charlie,
[Bm]addict to convenience
[Em]Now they got you caught up and call
[Bm]ing freedom extremists
[Em]We're not in agreement,
I won't lay down politely
I closed my mouth for years
and they still [Bm]tried to fight me

[Verse 9]
I sat [Bm]down on the sidelines and
they still tried to bite me
They think [Em]they buried my career [Am]an
d pro[Em]moted my [Bm]peers to spite me
But [Em]they can't tell me nothing Charlie,
[Bm]they don't underwrite me
[Em]I've had a lot of money thrown at me,
none [Bm]of that sh— excites me
[Em]It's just another kind of [Bm]case
to get up in my psyche
[Em]To use me as an instru[Am]ment to
[Bm]further push their puppet show
But [Em]I'm not

[Verse 10]
inexperienced
and this not my first rodeo
I'm not so shallow Charlie,
I call it too precisely
[Bm]Sep arate bone from marrow,
so [Em]much soul that they dislike [Bm]me
[Em]Intuitives, Charlie we be like fugitives
Until the universe responds to show
them who the student is

[Verse 11]
Woman [Em]cry (woman cry)[Bm]
[Em]Give [Bm]life [Em](gives us life)
Mother Mary and [Bm]baby the burden she carries
[Em]all [Bm]time (burden she carries)
Wo[Em]man cry ([Bm]woman cry)
Gives [Em]us l[Bm]ife (gives us life)
And she begs He forgives us the sin and the sinners
[Em]all [Bm]time (begs He forgives u[Em]s)
So them a [Am]go make war before

[Verse 12]
[Em]we free
Why them a go [Am]make [Em]war
be[Bm]fore we free?
So them a go [Em]make war
before we [Bm]free
Why [Em]them a go make war before we free?

[Outro 1]
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