Intro : Bm7 F#° Em9 ( Em7 E7M F#° )

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

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

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So where has all the love gone?
F 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