Queen – White Man (Guitar Solo)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Omit 3rd on all chords throughout] [Verse 1]
      D D D C D
I'm a simple man

D C    D D D C D
With a simple name

D C       C C C Bb C
From this soil my people came

C  Bb   C C C Bb   G
In this soil remain

F  D     F  D
Oh yeah, oh yeah

   D D D C D    D C
He made us our shoes

        D D D C D
We trod soft on the land

D C     C C C Bb C
But the immigrant built roads

C  Bb  C C C Bb  G
On our blood and sand

F D      F  D
Oh yeah.
[Chorus]
F     D    F     D
White man, White man

                  G            Bb              D
Don't you see the light behind your blackened skies

F     D    F     D
White man, White man

                  G         Bb             D
You took away the sight to blind my simple eyes

F     D    F     D
White man, White man

                Bb G
Where you gonna hide

                     D
From the hell you've made ?
[Verse 2]
C      D D D C D
Oh the Red man knows war

D    C   D D D C D
With his hands and his knives

D  C   C C C Bb C
On the bible you swore

C      Bb   C C C Bb  G
Fought your battle with lies

F  D    F  D
Oh yeah
[Verse 3]
C        D D D C D
Leave my body in shame

D     C  D D D C D
Leave my soul in disgrace

D  C   C C C Bb C
But by every God's name

C   Bb   C C C Bb         G
Say your prayers for your race

F  D
Oh yeah
[Chorus]
F     D    F     D
White man, White man

                G         Bb             D
Our country was green and all our rivers wide

F     D    F     D
White man, White man

                G      Bb                 D
You came with a gun and soon our children died

F     D    F     D
White man, White man

                 Bb    G
Don't you give a light

                     D    F G D
for the blood you've shed
[GUITAR SOLO WITH ECHO] C C C Bb C C C C Bb C G G G F G G G G F G C C C Bb C C C C Bb C G G G F G G G G F G F F F F F F D [Chorus]
F     D    F     D
Oh White man, White man (White man)

F     D    F     D
White man, White man

F     D    F     D
Fought your battle with lies, yeah

F     D    F     D
White man, White man - but weren't too civilized yeah

F     D    F     D
White man, White man

            Bb
Take a look around
Every skin and bone
F     D
Yea Yeah
[Guitar solo with echo] F D F D N.C. [Outro]
C       D    D  D C  D
What is left of your dream?

D    C   D     D  D C  D
Just the words on your stone

D  C C       C   C Bb C
Then learned how to   teach

C    Bb C   C   Bb G
Then forgot how to learn

F  D
Oh yeah
F D