Dc Talk - Colored People guitar tab
"Colored People" by DC TALK
from the album "Jesus Freak" (c. FOREFRONT 1995)
as played by Nathan Moussa
(http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3960)
Intro
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Verse
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Pardon me, your epidermis is showing
x = muted scratch
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I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin
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I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement Cause I
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see the beauty in the tones of our skin
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We gotta come together, and thank the maker of us all
Chorus
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We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place
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We're colored people, and they call us the human race
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We've got a history so full of mistakes And we are
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1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
colored people who depend on a Holy Grace
Bridge
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- Verse
A piece of canvas is on;y the beginning
It takes on character with every loving stroke
Thins thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope
We gotta come together, aren't we all human after all?
- Chorus
Break ^ = bend up and back down
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Ignorance has wronged some races and
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vengeance is the Lord's
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If we aspire to share this space
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Repentace is the cure
- Rap (played the same as chorus)
Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man
Should make it easy for you to see
That these diverse tone do more than color our bones
As a part of our anatomy
Chorus (twice)
sometime during the chorus change to this rif or have another guitar do it.
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Continue playing until it fades out.
