Black Lives Matter
©2020
Garrett Clevenger
Chorus:
A Em Never give up. Keep
on fighting.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on striving.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on dreaming.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on screaming!
A
Sailing
towards their American shore the
Em slave
traders stand on a
G ship
of misery full of people
Bm A
ripped
from their land.
A They
see bodies thrown overboard
Em into
the sea.
G Bm Captives
too sick or who died by
A
brutality.
Chorus:
A Em Never give up. Keep
on fighting.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on striving.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on dreaming.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on screaming!
A Slaves
were sold, both young and old,
Em to
the highest bid.
G Even
Thomas Jefferson raped a
Bm A slave
who birthed his kid.
A Cops
on the street don’t miss a beat.
Em They
still will kill
G Bm with
no shame a young black man
A just
for a thrill.
Chorus:
A Em Never give up. Keep
on fighting.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on striving.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on dreaming.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on screaming!
Bm
A
Bm
A
Bm It’s
never too late for a
A civil
conversation.
Bm Hear
the people on the streets in
A mass
demonstration.
G
It’s
time to end the
Bm racist
power reign.
G
With
liberty and justice for
A all
we sing:
Bm Black
lives matter!
G F#m
Stop
the hate!
Bm Black
lives matter!
G A Don’t discriminate.
Bm Black
lives matter!
G F#m Just
like everyone.
G But
the mad hatter
A
has
a loaded gun.
Bm
G F#m
Bm
G A
Bm
G F#m
Bm
G
A
Bm Black
lives matter!
G F#m
It
could be you.
Bm Black
lives matter!
G A Killed
by the blue.
Bm Black
lives matter!
G F#m
No
more murder!
G Stop
the slaughter!
A
Love
is the
Bm cure.
Chorus chords:
A Em
x4
A I
had a dream an alien race
Em enslaved
humanity.
G They
gave the racist haters here
Bm A karmic
equality.
A
Despite
the justifiable resentment
Em one
would feel
G Bm Black lives freed them then
everyone
A
became
equal.
Chorus:
A Em Never give up. Keep
on fighting.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on striving.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on dreaming.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on screaming!
A Em Never give up. Keep
on singing.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on bringing.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on growing.
A Em Never give up. Keep on knowing,
A Em Never give up. Keep
on shining.
A Em Never give up. Keep
on climbing.
A Em Never give up. Keep on loving.
Bm Black
lives matter!