Lou Reed
"I Wanna Be Black"
From "Street Hassle" (1978)
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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I wanna be black, have natural rhythm
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Shoot twenty foot of jism too
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And fuck up the jews
[Verse]
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I wanna be black, I wanna be a panther
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Have a girlfriend named Samantha
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And have a stable of foxy whores
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Oh, oh, I wanna be black
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I don't wanna be a fucked up
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Middle class college student anymore
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I just wanna have a stable of foxy little whores
[Chorus]
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Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black
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Oh, oh, I wanna be black
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Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black
[Verse]
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I wanna be black, wanna be like Martin Luther King
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And get myself shot in the spring
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And lead a whole generation, too
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And fuck up the Jews
[Verse]
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I wanna be black, I wanna be like Malcolm X
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And cast a hex over President Kennedy's tomb
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And have a big prick, too
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Oh, I don't wanna be a fucked up
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Middle class college student no more
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Yeah, I just wanna have a stable of
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Foxy little whores
[Chorus]
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Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black
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I wanna be black, I wanna be black
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I wanna be black, I wanna be black
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I wanna be black
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I wanna be black
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh)
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(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh)
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(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh)
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(Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh)
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