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Sam Fender – White Privilege Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression

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This is the chords of White Privilege by Sam Fender on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
B
Start up my motor, eat, drink some burgers and cola
F#
Feed my addictions and vices, oh, how my iPhone entices
C#
My echo chamber media, regurgitated trivia
D#m
Befall the left and the right, catered for privileged whites
B
Signing online petitions, thinking I’m making a difference
F#
Don’t wanna hear about Brexit, them old cunts fucked up our exit
C#
My generation was duped, the youth were left out the loop
D#m
Lies on both sides of the fence left me completely bereft
B
My bio reads public figure, light and full, check out my figure
F#
Don’t even know why they’re famous

But God, they’re so entertaining
C#
I wanna copy what you eat, how you look, who you fuck
D#m
Wanna be anybody but me

[Refrain]
B
I wanna be anybody but me
F#
I wanna be anybody but me
C#
Wanna be anybody but me
D#m
Wanna be anybody but me

[Verse 2]
B
Everybody’s offended, the joke that just keeps on giving
F#
I’m not entirely sure the nitpicking can count as progression
C#
I’m chewing popcorn, sitting in the back row
D#m
Watching while the whole damn thing implodes
B
Nobody talks to each other for fear of different opinions
F#
They call the bigots dumb for buying into fear from the papers
C#
Smug liberal arrogance, working class don’t fuck with it
D#m
It’s all just ammunition for the right-wing press
B
The patriarchy is real, the proof is here in my song
F#
I’ll sit and mansplain every detail of the things it does wrong
C#
‘Cause I’m a white male, full of shame
D#m
My ancestry is evil, and their evil is still not gone

[Outro]
B
Their evil is still not gone
F#
Their evil is still not gone
C#
Their evil is still not gone
D#m
Their evil is still not gone
B
Their evil is still not gone
F#
Their evil is still not gone
C# D#m B
Their evil is still not gone
F#
Their evil is still not gone
C#
Their evil is still not gone
D#m
Their evil is still not gone
B
Their evil is still not gone
F#
Their evil is still not gone
C# D#m
B F# (fade out)

How to play White Privilege: key, chords and progression

White Privilege by Sam Fender is in the key of E♭ minor (six sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯, E♯). The song uses 4 chords: B, F#, C# and D#m.

The progression the song keeps returning to is B – F# – C# – D#m (VI – III – VII – i in E♭ minor). Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 4th fret and play the shapes G, D, A, Bm (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 0% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.