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Colored Spade

Hair

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: E
You might want to add a bit of fingerpicking on the bass 
strings (most of Hair's music focuses on bass guitar rhythms)  

   
         E7       E7       E7
I'm a... Colored Spade, a nigger, a black nigger;                

   E7        E7         E7   E7   E7
A jungle bunny, jigaboo coon, pickaninny mau mau          

 A7     A7        A7     A7
Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, Little Black Sambo               

 E7           E7      E7        E7
Cotton pickin', swamp guinea, junk man, shoeshine boy    

  A7     A7        A7       A7
Elevator operator, table cleaner at Horn and             

  E7       E7    E7      E7
Hardart, Slave voodoo, Zombie, Ubangi lipped             

  A7     A7
Flat nose, tap dancin'           

    E7           E7
Resident of Harlem               

    A7 A7  A7    E7  E7 E7
And President of the United States of Love     

     A7 A7 A7     E7 E7 E7
And President of the United States of Love  

 E7        E7  E7
Shit! (and if you ask him to dinner, you're gonna feed him:)     

 E7 E7 E7    E7 E7 E7 
Watermelon;  Hominy grits               E7 (vamp) ("So You Say" response)

 A7  E7 A7         A7 E7   A7
An' shortnin' bread; Alligator ribs 

 A7 E7 A7        A7 E7 A7
Some pig tails; some black eyed peas 

 A7 E7 A7     A7 E7 A7
Some chili; some collard greens 

   A7 E7 A7 
And if you don't watch out              A7

  E     E    E 
This boogie man will get you            E

 A7 E7 A7  A7 E7 A7 
Booooooo! Booooooo! A7 E7 A7 E7
So You Say!
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