Lou Reed – I Wanna Be Black (Guitar)

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From "Street Hassle" (1978) [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
[Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
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)
D9 D#9 E9 (x3)