I Wanna Be Black

Lou Reed

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I Wanna Be Black

Written by Lou Reed

Key: A

I Wanna Be Black Key EE

I Wanna Be Black Key FF

I Wanna Be Black Key F#F#

I Wanna Be Black Key GG(one step down)

I Wanna Be Black Key G#G#(half step down)

I Wanna Be Black Key AA(original key)

I Wanna Be Black Key A#A#(half step up)

I Wanna Be Black Key BB(one step up)

I Wanna Be Black Key CC

I Wanna Be Black Key C#C#

I Wanna Be Black Key DD

I Wanna Be Black Key D#D#

	  		
Intro A 

Verse 

A 
I wanna be black, have natural rhythm 
A                          F#m  D 
Shoot twenty foot of jism too 
                  A 
And fuck up the jews 

Verse 

A 
I wanna be black, I wanna be a panther 
A 
Have a girlfriend named Samantha 
                            F#m  D  
And have a stable of foxy whores 
                    A 
Oh, oh, I wanna be black 
         E 
I don't wanna be a fucked up 
F#m                             A 
Middle class college student anymore 
       E                   F#m   A          D 
I just wanna have a stable of foxy little whores 

A 
Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black 
D 
Oh, oh, I wanna be black 
A 
Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black
 

Verse 

A 
I wanna be black, wanna be like Martin Luther King 
A 
And get myself shot in the spring 
                                F#m D 
And lead a whole generation, too 
                  A 
And fuck up the Jews 

Verse 

A 
I wanna be black, I wanna be like Malcolm X 
A                                        F#m  D 
And cast a hex over President Kennedy's tomb 
                      A 
And have a big prick, too 
              E 
Oh, I don't wanna be a fucked up 
F#m                             A 
Middle class college student no more 
               E             F#m   A  
Yeah, I just wanna have a stable of  
              D 
Foxy little whores  

A                        D 
Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black 
                  A                 
I wanna be black, I wanna be black 
             D                 
I wanna be black, I wanna be black 
                                    A 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I wanna be black 
                                   D 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I wanna be black 
                                                A 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna be black 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 
                          D 
(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) 
                          A 
(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) 
                          D 
(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) 
                           A 
(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) 


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