Don’t Call Me White

Don’t Call Me White: Chords

              FA#5         LA5     MI5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
              FA#5         LA5     MI5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|---4-4-4-4---6-7-7-6----2----|
A|---6-6-6-6---7-7-7-7----2<<<-|
E|------------------------0<<<-|

E|----------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------9-----|
D|--4-4-4-4-6-7-7-6-4-4-4-4-6-7-7-6-4-4-4-4-6-7-7-6---9-----|
A|--6-6-6-6-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-7-7-7-7---7-<<<-|
E|------------------------------------------------------<<<-|
     FA#5          LA5             MI5
Your connotations wearing my nuts thin
         FA#5         LA5            MI5
Could it be semantics generating the mess we're in
FA#5     LA5
 I understand that language
FA#5          MI5
breeds stereotype
    LA5
But what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite?

              FA#5         LA5     MI5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
              FA#5         LA5     MI5
Don't call me white, don't call me white

FA#5       LA5                MI5
 I wasn't brought here, I was born
      FA#5           LA5               MI5
Circumsized, categorized, allegiance sworn
          FA#5           LA5
does this mean I have to take such shit
    FA#5                 MI5
for being fair skinned, no!
        LA5
I ain't part of no conspiracy, I'm just your average Joe

              FA#5         LA5     MI5
Don't call me white, don't call me white
              FA#5         LA5     DO#5
Don't call me white, don't call me white

           SI5
Represents everything I hate
    LA5                                      MI5
The soap shoved in your mouth to cleanse the mind
         DO#5                          SI5                 
A vast majority I've sheep, a buttoned collar, starched and bleached
             LA5
constricting veins, the blood flow to the brain slows
MI5
they're so fuckin ordinary
FA#5         LA5     MI5
White, Don't call me white

MI5       RE5             LA5
Oh, we're better off this way
MI5     RE5               LA5
Oh, say what you're gonna say
   FA#5         LA5           FA#5           MI5
So go ahead and label me, an asshole cause I can
LA5                                                         FA#5
Accept responsibility for what I've done, but not for who I am

      LA5     MI5
Don't call me white
              FA#5         LA5     MI5
Don't call me white, don't call me white

Don’t Call Me White: Video

Don't Call Me White è una canzone del 1994, scritta dai NOFX e rilasciata con l'album Punk In Drublic. Il singolo è stato rilasciato in versione limitata, inciso su di un vinile bianco e la canzone è stata reincisa anche dai Rancid in occasione del BYO Split Series Vol.3, l'album prodotto da entrambi i gruppi assieme.

L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

34 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).