Rise Of The Black Messiah chords by Indigo Girls

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
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They called you the rise of the black messiah like so many boys before you
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And they’ll be more, more to follow threatening and hard to swallow
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I’m sitting underneath that hanging tree, just me and the ghost of the KKK
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Poor man’s gallows in the middle of the woods - the saddest tree that ever stood

Chorus:
A minorAm  C majorC  G+G FF
Oooh oooh oooh

Verse 2:
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My friend I heard you tell of slavery’s end but have you heard of mass incarceration
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That ol’ Jim Crow he just keeps getting born with a new hanging rope for the black man’s scourge
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Hey ol’ man river, what do you know of that plantation they all Angola?
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The devil spawned a prison there - the saddest farm that ever lived
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Your great grand-daddy, he worked that land with shackles on his feet and on his hands
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He built them levees he chopped that cane he died in the mud in his chains
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Now you stand where he once stood shackles on you all the same

Chorus:
A minorAm  C majorC  G+G FF
Oooh oooh oooh

Bridge:
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But he’s gonna rise, he’s gonna rise and all them lynches are gonna be damned
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When outta that mud walks a brand new man

Chorus:
A minorAm  C majorC  G+G FF
Oooh oooh oooh
A minorAm  C majorC  G+G FF
Oooh oooh oooh

Verse 3:
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They called you the rise of the black messiah and said they’d do any damn thing the could to keep ya -
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You and your brothers from spreading the word, the gospel of freedom and the black man’s worth
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40 years in solitary, consider the man they just can’t bury
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I got this letter in my hand, saying tell this story when you can

Bridge:
        C majorC        G+G     A minorAm              FF
But he’s gonna rise, he’s gonna rise and all them lynches are gonna be damned
              A minorAm
When outta that mud walks a brand new man

Outro:
A minorAm  C majorC  G+G FF
Oooh oooh oooh
A minorAm  C majorC  G+G FF