Jamaican ska vocal group The Maytals became a reggae band in 1971, renamed Toots and The Maytals with Toots Hibbert (Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert) as front figure. The band won a 2005 Grammy award for the album True Love. Funky Kingston in early 70s is on Rolling Stone's list The Greatest Albums of All Time. The bass line in "54-46" is one of the most covered in pop music. Songs such as "Monkey Man", "Pressure Drop", "Bam Bam", among others, made them favorites for the early skinhead movement of white working-class youth in UK.
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
...POMP AND PRIDE... by Toots and the Maytals --------------------.........................
*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*
Intro:
EBF#B (x2)
Verse 1:
EB Everybody just cryin' out, (cry out), calm down, (calm down), F#B Have your pomp and pride. BE Calm down, (calm down), calm down, (calm down), F#B Have your pomp and pride.
Verse 2:
EB Everybody just cryin' out, (cry out), calm down, (calm down), F#B Have your pomp and pride. EB Is it an opulin, Iceland, calm down, F#B Have your pomp and pride.
Chorus 1:
EBF#B For to-day, to-day, to-day is a happy day. EBC#F#7 For to-night, to-night, can be another night... F#7 Do re mi, fah so la te do...
Verse 3:
EB Everybody just crying, crying, sighing, sighing, F#B Dying to see the light. EB And when they see it, they see it's not bright, F#B Can this be right?
Break:
EBF#B (x2)
Verse 4:
EB Everybody just cryin' out, (cry out), calm down, (calm down), F#B Have your pomp and pride. EB Is it an opulin, Iceland, calm down, F#B Have your pomp and pride.
Chorus 2:
EBF#B For to-day, to-day, to-day is a happy day. EBC#F#7 For to-night, to-night, can be another night... F#7 Do re mi, fah so la te do...
Verse 5:
EB Everybody just cryin' out, (cry out), calm down, (calm down), F#B Have your pomp and pride. EB Is it an opulin, Iceland, calm down, F#B Have your pomp and pride.