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White Man by Queen

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Tuning: Drop D (D A D G B E)

Key: F

Difficulty: Intermediate

White Man
Omit 3rd on all chords throughout:
Verse 1:

      D D D C D
I'm a simple man
D C    D D D C D
With a simple name
D C       C C C Bb C
From this soil my people came
C  Bb   C C C Bb   G
In this soil remain
F  D     F  D
Oh yeah, oh yeah
   D D D C D    D C
He made us our shoes
        D D D C D
We trod soft on the land
D C     C C C Bb C
But the immigrant built roads
C  Bb  C C C Bb  G
On our blood and sand
F D      F  D
Oh yeah.

Chorus:
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
                  G            Bb              D
Don't you see the light behind your blackened skies
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
                  G         Bb             D
You took away the sight to blind my simple eyes
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
                Bb G
Where you gonna hide
                     D
From the hell you've made ?

Verse 2:

C      D D D C D
Oh the Red man knows war
D    C   D D D C D
With his hands and his knives
D  C   C C C Bb C
On the bible you swore
C      Bb   C C C Bb  G
Fought your battle with lies
F  D    F  D
Oh yeah

Verse 3:

C        D D D C D
Leave my body in shame
D     C  D D D C D
Leave my soul in disgrace
D  C   C C C Bb C
But by every God's name
C   Bb   C C C Bb         G
Say your prayers for your race
F  D
Oh yeah

Chorus:

F     D    F     D
White man, White man
                G         Bb             D
Our country was green and all our rivers wide
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
                G      Bb                 D
You came with a gun and soon our children died
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
                 Bb    G
Don't you give a light
                     D    F G D
for the blood you've shed

GUITAR SOLO WITH ECHO:
C C C Bb C
C C C Bb C
G G G F  G
G G G F  G

C C C Bb C
C C C Bb C
G G G F  G
G G G F  G

F F F  F F F

D

Chorus:

F     D    F     D
Oh White man, White man (White man)
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
F     D    F     D
Fought your battle with lies, yeah
F     D    F     D
White man, White man - but weren't too civilized yeah
F     D    F     D
White man, White man
            Bb
Take a look around

Every skin and bone
F     D
Yea Yeah

Guitar solo with echo:
F     D    F     D

N.C.

Outro:
C       D    D  D C  D
What is left of your dream?
D    C   D     D  D C  D
Just the words on your stone
D  C C       C   C Bb C
Then learned how to   teach
C    Bb C   C   Bb G
Then forgot how to learn
F  D
Oh yeah
F  D