Better Hit Yer Learnin Cifras

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1pZCTzmZ1w
Worked out on request for tzipporah23
Featuring Rhiannon Giddens
Produced by Dirk Powell & Rhiannon Giddens
Release Date February 22, 2019
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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When I was just a little thing I almost learned from Cousin Nick.
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Ol' Massah found out, sure enough and poor old Nick, he got strung up.
 
[Chorus]
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Better git yer learnin', better git yer learnin',
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better git yer learnin', before it goes away.
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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The year was 1863, the paper said that I was free
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but no one read it to my ears and so I slaved for two more years.
 
[Chorus]
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Better git yer learnin', better git yer learnin',
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better git yer learnin', before it goes away.
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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A teacher came from Ohio to learn us what we need to know,
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before she told us what was what she up and died of Whooping Cough.
 
[Chorus]
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Better git yer learnin', better git yer learnin',
D              G           A             D
better git yer learnin', before it goes away.
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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I heard about a school was free, way out east in Tennessee;
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before I got to go to town the damned old reds had burned it down.
 
[Chorus]
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Better git yer learnin', better git yer learnin',
D              G           A             D
better git yer learnin', before it goes away.
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
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So, now that I am old and gray listen close to what I say:
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the white folks, they will write the show; if you can't read, you'll never know.
 
[Chorus]
D              G         A              D
Better git yer learnin', better git yer learnin',
D              G           A             D
better git yer learnin', before it goes away.
 
[End-Chorus]
D              G         A              D
Better git yer learnin', better git yer learnin',
D              G           A             D
better git yer learnin', before it goes away.
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