Black Messiah

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Everybody got the right to speak their mind 
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so don‘t shoot me for saying mine. 
 
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Everybody talking about racial equality 
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‘cos everybody‘s equal in the good Lord‘s eyes. 
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But if I told you that God was black what would you think of that 
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I bet you wouldn‘t believe it. 
 
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There‘s a self made prophet living right next to me 
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he said the Black Messiah‘s gonna come and set the whole world free. 
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He looked at me with his evil eye and he prophesied 
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and he really believed it. 
 
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He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire 
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and he‘s no liar, ‘cos he has truly heard the word. 
 
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Everybody talking about racial equality 
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but I‘m the only honky living on an all black street 
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they knock me down ‘cos they brown and I white. 
 
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Everybody got the right to speak their mind 
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so don‘t shoot me for saying mine. 
 
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Everybody talking about racial equality 
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you hear everybody talking about equal rights. 
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But white‘s white, black‘s black and that‘s that 
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and that‘s the way you should leave it. 
 
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Don‘t want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire 
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a Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world 
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Everybody got to show a little give and take 
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Everybody got to live with a little less hate 
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Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out. 
 
C G 
Everybody got the right to speak their mind 
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so don‘t shoot me for saying mine.