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Brown Sugar

Black men have been champions

To me

Of me

Starting with my daddy

Uncles and cousins

Grandfather

The boys on my block

My best friend in high school

And the fellas around the way

Those men I met in college

The one who said I do

Black men have been champions

To me

Of me

And me them

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