bob marley tabbed songs

8/7/2019 Bob Marley Tabbed Songs

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TOP RANKIN (D/Bm)

Bm

They don't want to see us unite:

G A A

All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.

Bm

They don't want to see us live together:

G A A

All they want us to do is keep on killing one another.

G A

Top rankin', top rankin':

Bm

Are you skankin' (skankin', skankin')?


G A

Wo-ho, top rankin' (top rankin'), 'Ow, did you mean what you say now?

Bm

Are you - 'ow are you (rankin', rankin') -

are ya - Lord, Lord, Lord! (skankin', skankin')?

A

They say the blood runs; And it runs through our line,

G Bm

And our hearts, heart of hearts divine, eh!

A G

And John saw them comin', ooh! - a-with the truth

Bm

From an ancient time.

G A

The brotherly love (brotherly love), the sisterly love (sisterly love)

Bm

I feel this morning; I feel this morning:

G A

Brotherly love (brotherly love), the sisterly love (sisterly love)

Bm

I feel this morning, this morning. Hey!

They don't want us to unite:

All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.

They don't want to see us live together;

All they want us to do is keep on killing one another.

Top rankin' (top rankin')!

Did ya mean what you say now (top rankin')?



Top rankin' (top ranking),Did you (top rankin') mean what you say (top rankin')?

Are you (rankin', rankin)?

Are you (skankin', skankin')?

Top rankin' (top rankin');

Top rankin' (top rankin');

Are you (skankin', skankin')?

'Ow are you (skankin', skankin')?


2/32

ZIMBABWE (A/F#m)

Intro:D E D E

C#m Bm F#m D

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny

C#m Bm F#m D

And in this judgement there's no partiality

C#m Bm F#m D

So arm in arms, with arms, we will fight this little struggle

C#m Bm F#m D

Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble

C#m

Brother you're right. You're right

Bm F#m D

You're right. You're right. You're so right

C#m Bm

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight

F#m D

We gonna fight, fight for our rights

D E

Natty Dread it ina Zimbabwe

D E

Set it up ina Zimbabwe

D E

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe

D E

Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more internal power struggle

We come together to overcome the little trouble

Soon we will find out who is the real revolutionary

Cause I don't want my people to be contrary

And brother you're right. You're right


We'll have to fight, we gonna fight

We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights


Natty trash it ina ZimbabweAfricans a liberate Zimbabwe

I and I a liberate Zimbabwe





To divide and rule could only tear us apart


3/32

In everyman' chest there beats a heart

So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries

And I don't want my people to be tricked my mercenaries





Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe





Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe



Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny...

(Bass)

INTRO

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MAIN RIFF

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CHORUS

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CATCH A FIRE (Am/C)

Am G

Slave driver the table is turnedCatch a fire so you can get burned

Slave driver the table is turned

Catch a fire youre gonna get burned

Evry time I hear the crack of the whip

My blood runs cold

I remember on the slave ship

How they brutalised our very souls

Today they say that we are free


4/32

Only to be chained in poverty

Good god, I think its all illiteracy

Its only a machine that make money


Slave driver the table is turned baby now

Catch a fire so you can get burned baby now


Catch a fire so you can get burned

Evry time I hear the crack of the whip

My blood runs cold

I remember on the slave ship

How they brutalised our very souls

Oh god have mercy on our souls

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TALKIN BLUES (A/F#m)

Intro: F#m F#m

Yeah! Oh, yeah! Now!

D ACold ground was my bed last night (bed last night)

E A

And rock was my pillow, too; (doo-oo-oo-oo-oo!)

Cold ground was my bed last night (bed last night)

And rock was my pillow, too. Yeah!

D A

I'm saying: talkin' blues (talkin' blues), talkin' blues (talkin'

blues);

E A

They say your feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoe-oo-oo-oo-oo)

Talkin' blues (talkin' blues), talkin' blues (talkin' blues):

Your feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoe-oo-oo-oo-oo)

Yeah, I've been down on the rock for so long, (so long)I seem to wear a permanent screw; (screw-oo-oo-oo-oo)

I've been down on the rock for so long, (so long)

I seem to wear a permanent screw. (screw-oo-oo-oo-oo)

A E A

But-a I - I'm gonna stare in the sun,

D A E A

Let the rays shine in my eyes.

D A E A


5/32

I - I'm a gonna take a just-a one step more

D A

'Cause I feel like bombin' a church -

E A

Now - now that you know that the preacher is lyin'.

D A

So who's gonna stay at home

E A

When - when the freedom fighters are fighting?


They say your feet is just too big for your shoes, woe-oh-oh-oh!

Talkin' blues (talkin' blues), keep on talkin' blues (talkin' blues);

They say - you hear what they say -

Didn't you hear?

Cold ground was my bed (bed last night),

Rockstone - rockstone - rockstone was my pillow;

Cold ground was my bed last night (bed last night),

And rock was my pillow, too.

Sayin': (talkin' blues, talkin' blues):

I seem to wear a permanent screw - permanent screw.


Feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoe-oo-oo-oo-oo) {fadeout}

(Bass)

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THEM BELLY FULL (Am/C)

intro:

Am

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agora eh dois tempos em Am e um em F e em G

Am, F G

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na;



Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.

Am F G

Them belly full but we hungry.

Am F G


6/32

A hungry mob is a angry mob.

Am F G

A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;

Am F G

A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough.

Am G Am

You're gonna dance to JAH music, dance.

Am G Am

We're gonna dance to JAH music, dance.

G Am

Forget your troubles and dance.

G Am

Forget your sorrow and dance.

G Am

Forget your sickness and dance.

G Am

Forget your weakness and dance.

Am F G

Cost of living get so high,Am F G

Rich and poor, they start a cry.

Am F G

Now the weak must get strong.

Am F G

They say, "Oh, what a tribulation."

Am F G

Them belly full but we hungry.

Am F G

A hungry mob is a angry mob.

Am F G


Am F G


Am G Am

We're gonna chuck to JAH music, chuckin'.

Am G Am

We're chuckin' to JAH music, we're chuckin'.

Am F G

A belly full but them hungry.

Am F G

A angry mob is a angry mob.

Am F G

A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;Am F G

A angry man is a angry man.

Am F G


Am F G


(Repeat)

Am F G

A angry mob is a angry mob.


7/32

400 YEARS (Am/C; G/Em)

Am Am

Am Am

Four hundred years

Am Dm AmOf the same time same philosophy

Am Am

I said it's four hundred years

Am Dm Am

And my people they still can't see

C

What do they fight against

D Em

The youth of today

C

And without youth

D Em

You would be gone all gone astray

AmCome on let's hundred years...

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AFRICA UNITE (G/Em)

G D Em

Africa, Unite

C D Em

'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon

C D Em Em

And we're going to our father's land

G D Em

How good and how pleasant it would be

C

Before God and man, yeah

G D Em C


8/32

To see the unification of all Africans, yeah

G D Em

As it's been said already let it be

C

done, yeah

G D Em C

We are the children of the Rastaman

G D Em C

We are the children of the Higher Man

G D Em

Africa, Unite

G D Em

'cause the children wanna come home

G D Em

Africa, Unite

C D Em

'cause we're moving right out of Babylon

C D Em

And we're grooving to our father's land

G D Em

How good and how pleasant it would be

C9

Before God and man

G D Em C

To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah

G D Em

As it's been said already let it be

C9

done, yeah

G D Em C

I tell you who we are under the sun

G D Em C

We are the children of the Rastaman

G D Em C

We are the children of the Higher Man

G D Em G D Em

So, Africa, Unite, Africa, Unite

G D Em

Unite for the benefit of your people

G D Em

Unite for it's later than you think

G D Em

Unite for the benefit of your people

G D Em

Unite for it's later than you think

G D Em

Africa awaits its creators,

G D Em

Africa awaiting its creators

G D Em

Africa, you're my forefather cornerstore

G D Em

Unite for the Africans abroad,


9/32

G D Em

unite for the Africans a yard

G D Em

Africa, Unite

RIFF 1

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"cause we're movin' ......."

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RIFF 2

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AMADO (C/Am)

C C7

Am do ui

You got to pay your dues ui

Im do baby ui

And im a do you too ui (one more time)

(hey woman)

F Em

Youve got your love

And i got mine

And then we put then together

Cause they gonna work so fine

Em

Still i got the woman i got you on my mind

Am

And ive got together with you

And ive got to do it with you again(got to say)

C C7

Do it with your back self 3x

(Thank you woman)

Am G | C

Cause every man needs a woman

Every woman, every woman needs a man

F Em

Closer together they would be

Cheering the world so free


10/32

And love will fall apart

Youre still in my...

Em

Still ive got the woman ive got it on my own

And ive got to do it with you

And ive got to do it with you again(got to say)

Do it with your back self 3x

Every man needs a woman

Every woman, needs a man

Closer together they would be

Cheering the world so free

And love will fall apart

Youre still in my...

AMBUSH IN THE NIGHT (D/Bm)D Bm G A

(Ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!)

See them fighting for power (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!),But they know not the hour (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!),;

So they bribing with their guns, spare-parts and money,

D Bm G

Trying to belittle our integrity now.

Em A Em D

They say what we know

Is just what they teach us;

And we're so ignorant

'Cause every time they can reach us (shoobe, doo-wa)

G A Em A7

Through political strategy (shoo-be, doo-wa);They keep us hungry (shoobe, doo-wa),

And when you gonna get some food (shoobe, doo-wa),

Your brother got to be your enemy, we-e-ell!

(Bm Bm G A)

Ambush in the night,

All guns aiming at me;


They opened fire on me now.


Protected by His Majesty.

(D Bm G A)

Ooh-wee, ooh-wee. Ooh-wa-ooh!

(Ooh-wee) Ooh-wee, ooh-wee (ooh-wa), Ooh-wa!

Ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh wa-ooh!

Ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh wa-ah!

Em A Em D

Well, what we know

Is not what they tell us;

We're not ignorant, I mean it,


11/32

And they just cannot touch us;

G A Em A7

Through the powers of the Most-High (shoobe, doo-wa),

We keep on surfacin' (shoobe, doo-wa);

Thru the powers of the Most-I (shoobe, doo-wa),

We keep on survivin'.

Yeah, this ambush in the night

Planned by society;

Ambush in the night;

They tryin' to conquer me;

Ambush in the night

Anyt'ing money can bring;

Ambush in the night

Planned by society;

Ambush in the night

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BURNIN AND LOOTIN (Am/C?)

Am Dm Am Am (x2)

Am Dm Am Am

This morning I woke up in a curfew

Am Dm E E

Oh god I was a prisoner too - yeah

Am Dm Am Am

Could not recognise the faces standing over me


12/32

Am Dm E E

They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality - eh

Am Dm Am Am

How many rivers do we have to cross

Am Dm E E

Before we can talk to the boss

Am Dm Am Am

All that we got seems lost

Am Dm E E

We must have really paid the cost (That's why we gonna

be)

Am Dm Am Am

Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (Say we gonna burn and

loot)

Am Dm Am Am

Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (One more thing)

Chorus:

Am Dm Am Am

Burnin all pollution tonight (Oh yeah yeah)

Am Dm Am Am

Burning all illusions tonight (Oh stop them)

Am Dm Am Am

Give me the food and let me grow

Am Dm E E

Let the roots man take a blow

Am Dm Am Am

All them drugs gonna make you slow now

Am Dm E E

It's not the music of the ghetto

Weeping and a-wailing tonight (Ooh can't stop the tears)

Chorus: Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight (We've been suffering all

these long long years)

Weeping and a-wailing tonight


13/32

Give me the food and let me grow

Let the roots man take a blow

All them drugs gonna make you slow now

It's not the music of the ghetto

We gonna be burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (To survive

yeah)

Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (Save your babies lives)

Chorus: Burning all pollution tonight

Burning all illusions tonight

Burnin and lootin tonight

Burnin and lootin tonight

Intro:

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COULD YOU BE LOVED (D/Bm)

Bm Bm Bm Bm

D D Bm G

Could you be loved

G D D

and be loved?

D D Bm GCould you be loved

G D D Bm

and be loved?

Bm Bm Em Em Em Em

Don't let them fool you

Bm Bm Bm Bm Em Em

or even try to school you,

Em Em Bm Bm

Oh, no!

Bm Bm

We've got a mind of our own

G F#m Em

So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right

Bm Bm Bm

Love would never leave us alone.

G F#m A

In the darkness there must come out the light.

D D Bm G


15/32

Could you be loved

G D D

and be loved?

D D Bm G

Could you be loved

G D D Bm

and be loved?

Bm Bm

The road of life is rocky

Bm Bm

and you may stumble too.

Bm Bm

So while you point your fingers

Bm Bm

someone else is judging you.

Bm Bm

Could you be, could you be, could you be loved?Bm Bm

Could you be, could you be loved?

Bm Bm

Could you be, could you be, could you be loved?

Bm Bm


Bm Bm Em Em Em Em

Don't let them change you,

Bm Bm Em Em Em Em Bm

or even rearrange you. Oh, no!

Bm Bm G F#m Em Em

We've got a life to live Uh.. Uh.. uh uh uh uh..

Bm Bm

They say only, only,

G F#m A A

only the fittest of the fittest shal survive,

stay alive.

D D Bm G

Could you be loved

G D D

and be loved?

D D Bm G

Could you be loved

G D D Bm

and be loved?

Bm Bm

You ain't gonna miss your water

Bm Bm

until you well runs dry.

Bm Bm

No matter how you treat him,

Bm Bm

the man will never be satisfied.


16/32

Bm Bm Bm Bm

Could you be, could you be, could you be loved?

Bm Bm Bm Bm


Say something... Say something...

Say something... Say something...

Intro (x2)

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CONCRETE JUNGLE (G/Em)

Em Am Em Em No sun will shine in may day today

Em Am D D The high yellow moon won't come out to play

I said

C Em Darkness has covered my life

C Em And has changed my day into night yeah

G G D Where is this love to be found

D Em Won't someone tell me cause the light

Em Am Em Must be somewhere to be found


17/32

Em Instead of a concrete jungle Where the living'

is hardest

Em Concrete jungle Man you've got to do your best

yeah

Em Am No chains around my feet

Em Em But I'm not free

Em Am D D I know I am bound here In captivity

C Em Ive never known happiness

C Em Ive never known sweet caresses

G G D Still I be always laughing like a clown

D Em Won't some-one tell me cause the light

Em Am Em I got to pick myself from off the ground ye-yeah

Em Is this here concrete jungle

Em I say what do you got for me now?

Em Concrete jungle why won't you let me be now?

I said life must be somewhere to be found yeah

Instead of a concrete jungle illusion confusion

Concrete jungle yeah

Concrete jungle you name it we got it inconcrete jungle now

Intro:

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Verse:

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18/32

Em Am Em

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Em Em Em Em

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After this repeat the verse. Then play the

intro until the end...

I SHOT THE SHERIFF (eb/Cm)

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Gm Gm

I shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm

but I did not shoot the deputy.

Gm Gm

I shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm


Eb Dm Gm Gm

All around in my old townEb Dm Gm Gm

they're trying to track me down.

Eb Dm Gm Gm

They say they want to bring I in guilty

Eb Dm Gm Gm

for the life of a deputy,

Eb Dm7 Gm Gm

for the life of a deputy.

Gm Gm Gm Gm

But I say:

Gm Gm

I shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm

but I swear it was in selfdefence.

Gm Gm

I shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm


Eb Dm Gm Gm

Sheriff John Brown always hated I

Eb Dm Gm Gm


19/32

for what I don't know.

Eb Dm Gm Gm

Every time that I plant a seed

Eb Dm Gm Gm

he said "Kill it before It grows,"

Eb Dm7 Gm Gm

he said "Kill them before they grow."

Gm Gm Gm Gm

And so , and so , beat in the news:

Gm Gm

I shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm


Gm Gm

It was I who shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm


Eb Dm Gm GmFreedom came my way one day

Eb Dm Gm Gm

and I started out of town.

Eb Dm Gm Gm

All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown,

Eb Dm Gm Gm

aiming to shoot me down.

Eb Dm7 Gm Gm

So I shot, I shot , I shot him down.

Gm Gm Gm Gm

And I say:

Cm7 Gm

If I am gulty I will pay

Gm Gm

I shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm


Gm Gm

It was I who shot the sheriff,

Cm Cm Gm Gm Gm Gm

And they say it is a capital offense.

Eb Dm Gm Gm

Reflexes are the better of me

Eb Dm Gm Gmand what is to be must be.

Eb Dm Gm Gm

Every day the bucket goes to the well,

Eb Dm Gm Gm

one day the bottom will drop out,

Eb Dm7 Gm Gm

one day the bottom will drop out.

Gm Gm Gm Gm

But I say:


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Riff 1 (x2)

G|------------------3---5-----------------------------|

D|-----0--/5------5-----------3---3--5--------3-3-3-5-|

A|-1------------------------5---5----------5----------|

E|-----------3----------------------------------------|

Riff 2 (x4)

G|-8-------7-------------------------------7-|

D|---8-------7------------5------------------|

A|-----6-------5------5-8---5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|

E|-------------------------------------------|

Riff 3

G|-------------7-------5-7-8-7-5---------------------|

D|-------------------5-------------5---------------5-|

A|-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------5-5-5-5-5-5----|

E|---------------------------------------------------|

G|---------------------|

D|-5--3----------------|A|------5-3-1-5-3-1----|

E|-------------------3-|

Variaton on Riff 3

G|------------7-----5-7-8-7-5-7----------------------|

D|---------------5----------------5-5---5----5---5---|

A|-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------5----5---5-----|

E|---------------------------------------------------|

IS THIS LOVE (A/F#m)

e|--------------------|---------------------------|

B|--------------------|--------2-----3-2----3-2---|G|--------2-----------|------2----2------2------2-|

D|----2-4-----4---2-4-|--0-4----------------------|

A|--4-----------4-----|---------------------------|

E|--------------------|---------------------------|

e|--------------------|----------5-5-5-3-3-3------|

B|--------------------|----------2-2-2-0-0-0------|

G|--------2-----------|------2--------------------|

D|----2-4-----4---2-4-|--0-4----------------------|

A|--4-----------4-----|---------------------------|

E|--------------------|---------------------------|

F#m

I wanna love you

D A

and treat you right.

E/Ab F#m

I wanna love you

D A

every day and every night.


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E/Ab F#m

We'll be together

D A

with a roof right over our heads.

E/Ab F#m

We'll share the shelter

D A

of my single bed.

E/Ab F#m

We'll share the same room,

D A

Jah provide the bread.

C#m7

Is this love, is this love, is this love,

Bm7

is this love that I'm feeling?

C#m7


Bm7


52 - 54 - 55 - 42

Bm7 C#m7 D E

I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now.

Bm7 C#m7 D E

C#m7

I've got to know, got to know, got to know now.

C#m7 Bm7

I... I'm willing and able,

C#m7

so I throw my cards on your

E D C#m Bm

table.

F#m

I wanna love you

D A E/Ab

I wanna love and treat, love and treat you F#m

right.

F#m

I wanna love you

D A


E/Ab F#m

We'll be together

D Awith a roof right over our heads.

E/Ab F#m


D A

of my single bed.

C#m F#m


D A



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C#m7


Bm7


C#m7


Bm7


Bm7 C#m7 D E

Bm7

Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes I know now

Bm7 C#m7 D E

C#m7

Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes I know now

C#m7 Bm7

I... I'm willing and able,

C#m7

so I throw my cards on your

E D C#m Bm

table.F#m

See I wanna love ya,

D A E/Ab

I wanna love and treat ya, love and treat

F#m

ya right

F#m

I wanna love you

D A


E/Ab F#m

We'll be together

D A

with a roof right over our heads.

E/Ab F#m


D A

of my single bed.

E/Ab F#m


D A


G ||-------2----------------------2-6-----7-6-----7-6---||

D ||---2-4-------4----2-4-----O-4-----4-------7-------7-||

A ||-4-------------4------------------------------------||

E ||----------------------------------------------------||

G ||-------2----------------------2---------------------||

D ||---2-4-------4----2-4-----O-4-----------------------||

A ||-4-------------4------------------O-O-O---O---------||

E ||----------------------------------------4---4-2-----||

G ||----------------------------------||

D ||----------------------------------||


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A ||-5-5-5---5---O------O-O---O-------||

E ||-----------2------------4---4-2---||

G ||-------2----------------2------2-2-2-1-2-1------||

D ||---2-4-----O--O-O--O-4--------------------------||

A ||-4----------------------------------------------||

E ||--------------------------------------------2---||

G ||-------2----------------------------------------------||

D ||---2-4------4---2-4-----------------------------------||

A ||-4------------4-------5-5-5---5---O-----O-O-O---O-----||

E ||--------------------------------2-------------4---4-2-||

KINKY REGGAE (F/Dm)

Am Gm Am Gm

I went downtown I saw Miss Brown

Am Gm Am Gm

She had brown sugar All over her booga-wooga

Am Gm Am Gm

I think I might join the fun But I had to hit and run

Am Gm Am Gm

See I just can't settle down In a kinky part of town

Am F

Ride on Don't you know

Am

I've got to oh baby ride on,

Am F

See I just can't settle down

Am

Oh I'm a leaving town

Kinky reggae take me awayKinky reggae, kinky reggae, kinky reggae now,

Kinky ride on, ride on baby

Am Gm Am

Gm

I went down to picadilly circus Down there I saw marcus

Am Gm Am Gm

He had a candy bar All over his chocolate bar

Am Gm Am

Gm

It think I might join the fun But I had to hit and run

Am Gm Am

Gm

See I just can't settle down In a kinky, kinky part of town

Am F

Ride on Don't you know

Am

I've got to oh baby ride on,

Am F

See I just can't settle down

Am


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Oh I'm a leaving town

Kinky reggae take me away

Kinky reggae, kinky reggae, kinky reggae now,

Kinky ride on, ride on baby

G--------------------------------------------

D--------------------------------------------

A--------3-3-0-3-3-5---------------------

E-----3-----------------3-3----------------

RAT RACE

intro ((B Am F# D)(Am Am B B B Am B))2x (Bm/D)

rest of song Bm A (A/Dm)

A Bm

Ah! Ya too rude

Oh what a rat race

Oh what a rat race

This is the rat race

Some a lawful, some a bastardSome a jacket

Oh what a rat race, rat race

Some a gorgan, some a hooligan

Some a guine-gog

In this rat race. Yeah!

Rat race

I'm singing

When the cats away

The mice will play

Political violence fill ya city

Yea-ah!

Don't involve Rasta in your say say

Rasta don't work for no C.I.A

Rat race, rat race, rat race

When you think its peace and safety

A sudden destruction

Collective security for surety

Yeah!

Don't forget your history

Know your destiny

In the abundance of water

The fool is thirsty

Rat race, rat race, rat race

Oh it's a disgrace to see theHuman-race in a rat race, rat race

You got the horse race

You got the dog race

You got the human-race

But this is a rat race, rat race

INTRO X2

G ||-5-3---------------------------||

D ||-----5-1-----------------------||


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A ||----------------1--333----1-3--||

E ||--------------3----------------||

only play the note in brackets the very first time

G

||----------------------|----------------------------------------------

-----||

D ||----------------------|---------5-5---------5-----------5-

5---------5-----||

A

||----------------------|----------------------------------------------

-----||

E ||-(8)-66--66--66--66---|---66--6--------666--------66--6--------

666--------||

sometimes you play this instead of the second bar:

G ||---------------------------------------------||

D ||----------------5----------5-5--------5------||

A ||-6--5----------------------------------------||

E ||-------8-------------66--6--------666--------||

RIDE NATTY RIDE (A/F#m)

(A F#m D E)

Dready got a job to do

And he's got to fulfill that mission

To see his hurt is their

Greatest ambition

But we will survive

In this world of competition

'Cause no matter what they do

Natty keep on coming thru

And no matter what they sayNatty de deh every day

(A F#m D E)

Natty dread rides again

Thru the mystics of tomorrow


Having no fear, having no sorrow

A E A

All and all you can see a gwan

A E A

Is to fight against the Rastaman

A E A

So they build their world

In great confusion

A F#m

To force us in the devil's illusion

A E A

But the stone that the builder refuse

A E A

Shall be the head cornerstone

A E A


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And no matter what games they play

A F#m

There is something they could

Never take away

A F#m

Something they could never take away

F#m F#m

And it's the fire, it's the fire, fire

D A

Burning down everything

F#m F#m

Feel the fire, fire, the fire, the fire

D A

Only the birds have wings

A D A

No time to be deceived

A D A

You should know and not believe

A D

Jah says this judgment

F#mCould never be with water

D F#m

So no water could put out this fire

This this fire, this this fire

(them repeat from start)

This this fire Ride Natty Ride

Go deh Dready, go deh Dready, go deh

Now the fire is burning

Out of control panic in the city

Wicked weeping for their gold

Everywhere the fire is burning

Destroying and melting their gold

Destroying and wasting their souls

Ride Natty Ride

Go deh Dready, go deh Dready

Go deh Dready, go deh

Now the people gather on the beach

And the leader try to make a speech

But dread again tell them it's too late

Fire is burning

Man pull your own weight

Fire is burning

Man pull your own weight


Go deh Dready, go deh Dready go deh

Oh Ride Natty Ride


Go deh Dready, go deh, go deh Dready go deh

Riding thru the storm

And we're riding thru the calm

Go deh, go deh


27/32

We riding thru the thick

We riding thru the thin

Ride Natty, Ride Natty

ROOTS ROCK REGGAE (D/Bm)

Bm EmPlay I some music

Bm F#m

This a reggae music.

Bm Em

Roots, Rock, Reggae,

Bm F#m


Bm Em

Roots, Rock, Reggae,

Bm F#m


Bm Em

Hey mister music,

Bm F#m

sure sound good to me

Bm Em

I can't refuse it

Bm F#m

what to be, got to be

Bm Em

Feel like dancing

Bm F#m

dance 'cause we are free

Bm EmFeel like dancing,

Bm F#m

come dance with me

Bm Em

Roots Rock Reggae

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em

Roots Rock Reggae

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em

Play I some music

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em

Play I some music

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em


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Play I some R and B whoaa

Bm F#m

Want all my people to see

Bm

Were bubbling on the top of one

Em

hundred

Bm F#m

just like a mighty dread

Bm Em

Play I some R and B

Bm F#m

Want all my people to see

Bm

Were bubbling on the top of one

Em

hundred

Bm F#m

Just like a mighty dread

Bm Em

Roots Rock Reggae

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em

Roots Rock Reggae

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em

Play I some music

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Bm Em

Play I some music

Bm F#m

This a reggae music

Tuning:

Bm Em Bm F#m

G|---------------------------------------------------------------------

------|

D|---------------------------------------------------------------------

------|

A|-------9-9---7--------9-9---

9----------------------------------------------|E|-5-7-7-----7----5-7-7-----

7------------------------------------------------|

SURVIVAL (C/Am)Am

(ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!

Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)

Yeah, yeah, yeah!


29/32

Am

How can you be sitting there

F

Telling me that you care -

Am

That you care?

Am

When every time I look around,

F

The people suffer in the suffering

Am

In everyway, in everywhere.

F Am G

Say: na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!):

Am

Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors!

Am

I tell you what: some people got everything;

AmSome people got nothing;

Am

Some people got hopes and dreams;

Am

Some people got ways and means.

F Am G

Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!):

Am


Am

Yes, were the survivors, like daniel out of the lions den

Am

(black survivors) survivors, survivors!

C

So I idren, I sistren,

F Em

A-which way will we choose?

Am

We better hurry; oh, hurry; oh, hurry; wo, now!

F G

cause we got no time to lose.

Am

Some people got facts and claims;

Am

Some people got pride and shame;Am

Some people got the plots and schemes;

Am

Some people got no aim it seems!

F Am G

Na-na-na-na-na, na-na, na!

Am


Am


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Tell you what: were the survivors, yeah! - the black survivors, yeah!

Am

Were the survivors, like shadrach, meshach and abednego (black

survivors),

Am

Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn.

C

So I idren, i-sistren,

F Em

The preaching and talkin is done;

Am

Weve gotta live up, wo now, wo now! -

F G

cause the fathers time has come.

Am

Some people put the best outside;

Am

Some people keep the best inside;

Am

Some people cant stand up strong;Am

Some people won't wait for long.

F Am G

na-na-na na, na-na-na!

Am

Were the survivors

Am

In this age of technological inhumanity (black survival),

Am

Scientific atrocity (survivors),

Am

Atomic misphilosophy (black survival),

Am

Nuclear misenergy (survivors):

Am

Its a world that forces lifelong insecurity (black survival).

F Am G

na-na-na na, na-na-na!

Am

Were the survivors, yeah!

Am

Were the survivors!

Am

Yes, the black survivors!

AmWere the survivors:

Am

A good man is never honoured (survivors)

Am

In his own yountry (black survival).

Am

Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors).

Am

Nothing change, nothing strange (black survivors).


31/32


32/32

Do-do-do. Do-do-do. Do-do-do.

(You can't tell the woman from the man)

No, I say you can't, 'cause they're dressed in the same pollution;

(dressed in the same pollution)

Their mind is confused with confusion

With their problems since they've no solution: (They become)

Dm Am Dm Am Dm Am Am

The midnight ravers. (Please, don't let me down!)

Oh, please, don't let me - ee-ya-bab, oh, please don't let me down!

(Midnight) Midnight ravers! (ravers) Midnight ravers!

(Please don't) Oh, please, please,

don't let me down, down, down, down, down!

Don't let me down; Don't let me down.

Am G

I see ten thousand chariots (ah-ah-ah-ah)

And they coming without horses; (coming without horses)

The riders - they cover their face, (ah-ah-ah-ah)

So you couldn't make them out in smoky place (make them out in smoky

places)

Dm Am Dm Am Dm AmIn that musical stampede, where everyone is doing their thing.

Musical stampede - people swingin';

Musical stampede. Someone say:

Am G

People, ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)

(keep a-ridin'!) Ride on!

(keep a-ridin'!) Midnight ravers!

People, ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)



I can't tell my woman from the man:

She is dressed in the same pollution; (dressed in the same pollution)

Her mind is confused with confusion:

To my problem seems there's never - never no solution!

I've become a night-life raver

And I'm beggin' you, (please) please, please -

oh, beel-ya-ba-ba - please don't ya let me down!

(Night-life ravers) Night-life ravers! Night-life ravers!

Oh, please, please, please, please, don't let me down.

Don't let me down;Don't let me down!

I see ten thousand chariots (ah-ah-ah-ah)

And they coming without horses; (coming without horses)

The riders they cover their face, (ah-ah-ah-ah)

So you couldn't make them out in smoky place -

In that musical stampede, oh!It's the musical stampede. Ride on!

It's the musical stampede, some preacher say!

People ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)



A-ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)

(keep a-ridin'!) Ride on.

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