Black And White Chords

Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 Key: Cm

 Chords: Cm, Fm, Gm, G♯

CmOh, let me tell my story friend

 That you might lFmearn to sGmtay away from Cmsin

CmI took a life not mine to take

 Imprisoned Fmfor this Gmhaunting dread misCmtake

My heart was harder than my soul

They sentenced me to life without parole

Where no one cares, we’re all the same

And I must wear this number for my name

Chorus

 Now life to G♯me is black and Cmwhite

 I’ll wear these Fmstripes unGmtil the day I Cmdie

 But this ball and cG♯hain around my Cmleg

 Won’t drag me Fmdown, won’t drag me down

GmWhen I am Cmdead

My mother prayed so hard for me

She did her time down on bended knees

But I was young and I had no fear

Her pleading voice still echoes in my ear

Don’t let the beauty blind your eyes

This world is filled with discolored lies

For greener fields don’t sell your soul

You’ll think you’re rich with a pocket of fool’s gold

Chorus

I’d rather be in this dark cell

Than to be free and die and go to hell

God bless the day of my new birth

I don’t have to pay the price that I deserve

Chorus

Ending

 And when I’m G♯dead and take my Cmflight

 I’ll leave beFmhind this Gmworld of black and Cmwhite