Young, Gifted & Black - B.B. King

To be young gifted and black

Oh what a lovely precious dream

To be young gifted and black

Open your heart

Open your broken heart to what I mean

In the whole world whole world

You got to know

There are billion boys and girls

Who are young gifted and black

And that's a fact

Who are young gifted and black

We must begin

We must begin to tell our young

There's a whole world waiting for you

Oh how I long

How I long to know the truth

There there are times times when I look back

Oh hey

But my joy of today

Is that we can all be proud to say

To be young gifted and black

Yeah yeah

To be young

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

To be young

Yeah the people know that

Yeah

To be young

Gifted and black

Is where it's at