Dirty Water Chords by Lecrae

[Start]

[Verse]
N.C.                   
Hold up Hold up Hold up
N.C.                      
Y'all gon' get me bowed up
N.C.                                    
When that beat hit it's like three kicks
N.C.                             
In your knees up to your nose huh
N.C.        
You knows us
N.C.                       
Unashamed Uno Uno Seis whoa
N.C.                                      
Tatted on my skin all up in your face whoa
N.C.                                                
If I ain't bout that live then I ain't really livin'
    E7                                                
But if you can't see my light then maybe I ain't in it
          E7                               
Champagne champagne celebratin' my campaign
                     E7         
I just dug a well in West Africa
        E7                               
But how many of my friends is African huh
   E7                                
No habla español just show me tu baño
             E7                                         
Ain't trynna get to know you I'm too busy readin' Daniel
E7                                           
Most segregated time of day is Sunday service
    E7                                               
Now what you think that say about the God you worship
E7                                                              
First of all I know it ain't a song that's gon' change the world
           E7 
There's no way
           E7                                                             
It's not a guilt trip it's a field trip that's gon' last more than one day
         E          
What you thought huh
                    E7        
Faith ain't bout no soft stuff
                      E                                      
I heard you just went overseas now come back home and boss up


[Chorus]
      E                           
Buy a bottle for a fee dirty water
       E                              
Bodies floatin' in the sea dirty water
      E                                              
Blood flowin' from the ground dirty water dirty water
      E                           
Buy a bottle for a fee dirty water
       E                              
Bodies floatin' in the sea dirty water
      E                                  
Blood flowin' from the ground dirty water
         E                               
Ain't no filters in this town dirty water


[Verse]
E                                                        
Worthless worthless four hundred years we done heard that
                       E          
My family came here on slave ships
     E                           
Some herd cattle some herd blacks
                        E         
Know some of y'all done heard that
   E                            
My kin was treated less than men
              E                                               
That's why we raised to hate each other cause we hate our skin
     E                                             
Lies you told about yourself that you don't realize
            E                                               
I must be a thief she locked the doors when I was walking by
                                                     E7    
They must be whores 'cause the master rapes them and leaves
    E7   
The child
        E              E7                             
So dead beat daddy was taught to me way before my time
       E7                                          
Now we extreme buying fancy things like gold chains
                        E7            
Just pretty shackles we still enslaved
        E7                                     
Put 'em round your neck 'cause we still hangin'
     E7                                         
Hood preacher told 'em they should live as kings
             E                                
You call him devil he fightin' for self esteem
             E                                
It's hard to dream when your water ain't clean
                      E                            
Now look at Lucifer's scheme as how to be in a team
             E                             
Blood in the ocean to these African streams
           E                                  
This dirty water ain't nothin' we haven't seen


[Chorus]
      E                           
Buy a bottle for a fee dirty water
       E                              
Bodies floatin' in the sea dirty water
      E                                              
Blood flowin' from the ground dirty water dirty water
      E                           
Buy a bottle for a fee dirty water
       E                              
Bodies floatin' in the sea dirty water
      E                                  
Blood flowin' from the ground dirty water
                                          E7
Ain't no filters in this town dirty water ■ 


[Outro]