Tom MacDonald - Whiteboy

[Intro]
F Gm

[Verse 1]

Dm
I cannot feel guilty for shit that I didn’t do
Dm
But I can understand the reasons why you think that I should
Dm
Yeah I’m white but I never put your neck in no noose
Gm
And I never burnt a cross or hid my face with a hood
Dm
You can’t just label me racist ‘cause I’m related to people
Dm
Who did some terrible shit way back before I was alive
Dm
My parents brought me up to treat everyone as an equal
Gm
I refuse to feel ashamed ‘cause of my pretty blue eyes
Dm
Fuck a nazi, fuck a white supremacist
Dm
Fuck anyone who labels me as that because of my family genetics
Dm
The hatred for Caucasians is so fucking pathetic
Gm
Go be proud that you’re black, but don’t hate me for some credit
Dm
I’m not the white devil, neo-nazi, cop tryna pull the trigger
Dm
You can call me what you want but I’d still never say
Dm
The white race as a whole ain’t the enemy
Gm
There’s racist white people but we’re far from that collectively

[Chorus]

Dm
White boy, don’t say that
Gm
White boy, oh you so bad
F
White boy you wish you were black
Gm
White boy, be a white boy
Dm
White boy, white noise
Gm
Sayin’ shit I can’t say with my white voice
F
White boys, white lies

Don’t tell me how to see it through my white eyes

[Verse 2]

Dm
If a black man is sippin’ on some Cognac sitting next to me
Dm
I don’t assume that every blacks favorite drink is Hennessy
Dm
I don’t dislike Tanesha ‘cause her first name isn’t Stephanie
Gm
Not only is that wrong, it’s a fucking waste of energy
Dm
Ivory or ebony, forty five or seventeen, we all bleed the same
Dm
Martin Luther King or Kennedy
Dm
They’re angry I’m recitin’ the facts
Gm Bbm
He white and he raps, and stole the culture right from the blacks
Dm
Okay, he’s fire but we lit the flame, he’s siphoning gas
Dm
So fuck this corny little honky, man, the whitey is wack
Dm
You letting history perpetuate the hatred within’

And then you paint me with the brush you painted slave owners with, yeah

[Chorus]

Dm
White boy, don’t say that
Gm
White boy, oh you so bad
F
White boy you wish you were black
Gm
White boy, be a white boy
Dm
White boy, white noise
Gm
Sayin’ shit I can’t say with my white voice
F
White boys, white lies

Don’t tell me how to see it through my white eyes

[Verse 3]

Dm
I got a mother, a father, a sister, an auntie and uncle
Dm
And a grandma that I picture when you’re openly hatin’
Dm
And god willing one day, I’ll have a kid of my own
Gm Bbm
I refuse to let you blindly hate my wife or my baby
Dm
So go ahead and hate the racists, I pray for their extinction
Dm
If you wanna hate the white people, just make a distinction
Dm
Between the ones who want the best for everyone regardless
Gm Bbm
And the ones who built the system just to smother you with hardship
Dm
Stop before you say it, I know what you been thinking
Bb
Hows a straight white male in twenty-eighteen bitching
F
You’re making me the villain by demonizing my race
Gm
For things I didn’t do and decisions I didn’t make
Dm
No one that I call a friend has ever owned a slave
Bb
And neither did our dad’s, or our dads dad’s, for fuck sakes
F
Acknowledging atrocities were wrongly committed
Gm
Is all that I can offer when I’m wrongly convicted
Dm
I would never hate a man for what god gave him in pigments
Bb
And I would never plot against him just because he is different
F
I would never judge a human for the cards he was given or
Gm
Call them lesser than myself ‘cause of the race that he’s mixed with
Dm
White people that you hate aren’t your neighbors or lawyers
Bb
They’re the Rockafeller’s, Rothschild’s, Bush’s, and Royals
F
They’re the people who monopolize the water and oil
Dm
And injected your communities with drugs ‘til they spoil
Dm
Got no patience for nazis, I think they’re better off dead
C Bb
They’re fighting hatred with hatred makin’ the hate more intense
C
I don’t want nothing to do with either side of the fence
Dm
So don’t blindly attack me for wearing braids on my head
Dm
Hate the people who believe you put yourselves in the ghetto
C Bb
Hate the ones who teach they children you ain’t shit cause they said so
C
Hate the ones who think you’re all the same and judge you profusely
Dm
‘Cause the way that you’re portrayed on our news and in movies
Dm
Bein’ white and bein’ racist aren’t the same man, I promise
Bb
Know it’s hard to tell the difference if I’m just being honest
F
I deserve the chance to show you I’m not part of the problem

And you owe it to yourselves, we got so much in common

[Chorus]

Dm
White boy, don’t say that
Gm Bb
White boy, oh you so bad
F
White boy you wish you were black
Gm
White boy, be a white boy
Dm
White boy, white noise
Gm Bb
Sayin’ shit I can’t say with my white voice
F
White boys, white lies

Don’t tell me how to see it through my white eyes
Dm
White boy, don’t say that
Gm
White boy, oh you so bad
Dm
White boy you wish you were black
Gm
White boy, be a white boy