John Gorka – Ignorance And Privilege (Guitar)

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INTRO: C
                                         F
I was born to ignorance, yes, and lesser poverties 

              C                G
I was born to privilege that I did not see 

                Am                         F
Lack of pigment in my skin, won a free and easy in 

         C               G       F     C
I didn't know it, but my way was paved 

                                     F
I grew up a Catholic boy, in a north-eastern State 

                     C                                     G
A place when asked, "Where you from?", some people tend to hesitate 

        Am                               F
Reply a little bit late, as if maybe you didn't rate 

C             G             F     C
I was born to ignorance and privilege 

                                             F
My dad ran a printing press, a tag and label factory 

                 C                         G
May have seen it as a child, now a distant memory 

           Am                           F
Almost too faint to see, dark red-brick factory 

         C               G       F     C
I didn't know it, but my way was paved 

                                           F
We moved from a city street, shortly after I arrived 

                C                               G
To a house on a gravel road, where I learned to be alive 

              Am                                     F
Crawl, walk, run and ride, that's where I learned to come alive 

         C               G       F     C
I didn't know it, but my way was paved 
CHORUS:
F              G       C
If the wind is at your back

F             G     C
And you never turn around 

F             G        C       Am
You may never know the wind is there 

Dm7                    G
You may never hear the sound, no, no

                C                              F
Got to grow and go to school, work at home and dream at night 

          C                        G
Even be a college fool, like I had any right 

             Am                         F
Never went through a war, never Great Depression poor 

         C               G       F     C
I didn't know it, but my way was paved 
BRIDGE:
Dm                 
Nose to the grindstone

G
Shoulder to the wheel 

Dm
Back against the wall

          G             C
Maybe you know how it feels 
INSTRUMENTAL: F C G Am G F C G F C CHORUS:
F              G       C
If the wind is at your back

F             G     C
And you never turn around 

F             G        C       Am
You may never know the wind is there 

Dm7                    G
You may never hear the sound, no, no

              C                          F
I was born to ignorance, yes, and lesser poverties 

              C                G
I was born to privilege that I did not see 

                Am                         F
Lack of pigment in my skin, won a free and easy in 

         C               G       F     C
I didn't know it, but my way was paved 

       F             G             F     C    F C   F C
'Cause I was born to ignorance and privilege