Society’s Child

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Verse 1:
 Cm         F
Come to my door, baby
 Cm                         F
Face is clean and shining black as night
Cm                  F
My mother went to answer you know
           Eb            F
That you looked so fine
    Bb
Now I could understand your tears and your shame
D
She called you "boy" instead of your name
Gm
When she wouldn't let you inside
Eb
When she turned and said
                 F    Eb    F
"But honey, he's not our kind."
 
Chorus 1:
 Am                       D7
She says I can't see you any more, baby
 Am                D7
Can't see you anymore
 
Verse 2:
 Cm               F
Walk me down to school, baby
   Cm               F
Everybody's acting deaf and blind
 Cm                             F
Until they turn and say, "Why don't you stick to
  Eb      F
your own kind."
 Bb
My teachers all laugh, their smirking stares
 D
Cutting deep down in our affairs
 Gm
Preachers of equality
 Eb                                              F   Eb   F
Think they believe it, then why won't they just let us be?
 
Chorus 2:
  Am                       D7
They say I can't see you anymore baby
 Am             D7
Can't see you anymore
 
Verse 3:
 Cm                          F
One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening
 Cm                     F
Gonna raise my head up high
 Cm                           F                  Eb         F
One of these days I'm gonna raise my glistening wings and fly
 Bb
But that day will have to wait for a while
 D
Baby I'm only society's child
 Gm
When we're older things may change
 Eb                               F     Eb
But for now this is the way, they must remain
 
Chorus 3:
 Am                     D7
I say I can't see you anymore baby
 Am             D7
Can't see you anymore
 Bb                 C
No, I won't see you anymore, baby
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Biography

Janis Ian (b. 1951) is a U.S. songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Her singing career was at its height in the 1960s and 1970s, and she has continued recording into the twenty-first century. In 1975 Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, “At Seventeen”.

Born Janis Eddy Fink on 7th April 1951 to a Jewish family in New York City, she was primarily raised in New Jersey, initially on a farm, and attended East Orange High School and the New York City High School of Music & Art.

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