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Colored People - Tab

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Intro
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Verse
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           Pardon me,          your epidermis is showing

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        I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin

 
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         I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement         Cause I


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           see the beauty in the tones of our skin


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       We gotta come together, and thank the maker of us all


Chorus
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     We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place


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    We're  colored people, and they call us the human race


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     We've got a history so full of mistakes              And we are


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           colored people who depend on a Holy Grace

Bridge
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- Verse
A piece of canvas is on;y the beginning
It takes on character with every loving stroke
Thins thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope

We gotta come together, aren't we all human after all?

- Chorus

Break                                ^ = bend up and back down 
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   Ignorance      has   wronged    some    races             and


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   vengeance is the Lord's


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If we        aspire    to   share    this     space


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 Repentace    is      the   cure

- Rap (played the same as chorus)
Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man
Should make it easy for you to see
That these diverse tone do more than color our bones
As a part of our anatomy

Chorus (twice) 
sometime during the chorus change to this rif or have another guitar do it.
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Continue playing until it fades out.

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