Sizzla Kalonji (real name Miguel Orlando Collins) is a Jamaican reggae musician. He was born on 17 April 1976, in St Mary, Jamaica, of devout Rastafari parents and raised in August Town. He is unusually prolific, even by Jamaican standards. Sizzla has worked with such artists as Mobb Deep.
Sizzla, along with reggae recording artists such as Capleton, Buju Banton, and Anthony B, are credited with leading a movement toward a re-embracement of Rastafarian
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My interpretation of sizzla’s song Be strong Taken from the drop leaf riddim album.listen To song for timing & strumming. Comments and corrections to [email protected] or [email protected] chords used: DmA#CAmGm E = ( 0 0 0 0 3 ) A = ( 0 1 3 0 5 ) D = ( 0 3 2 2 5 ) G = ( 3 3 0 2 3 ) B = ( 2 3 1 1 3 ) e = ( 1 0 0 0 3 ) Progression pattern runs through entire tune. DmA#CAm GmAm Intro picks played over this intro verse. But intermittently you can improvise Picking into the song so as u like it. e-5-5--7------------5-5--------5-5--7-7--7--5------------| B--------8-8--7--5-------8-7-5-----------------8--5------| G--------------------------------------------------------| D--------------------------------------------------------| A--------------------------------------------------------| E--------------------------------------------------------| Intro: Whoa oh! Whoa whoa yeah! Whoa ay! Whoa hey! Yeah, you got to get goin, no time for sitting down Some people not knowing life is a cycle You gotta know how to get around, Wooh! Ha! DmA#CAm GmAm Chorus: Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Verse 1: Hi! How you doing long time I have been seeing you Hope your behaving yourself to good behaving citizen Nothing come easy you got tom work cause I’m telling you Hope and pray for the best, cause I believe in you Not like the stereotype cleanliness intriguing you Give thanks and praises for my life, and for us being here Children can’t go to school, the system killing us There’s good in us and recall is what they bringing out Show the world what we got the struggles continues yo Check the conditions in which were living yo Ain’t no one come giving yo, got to work to be the winner Our children going to bury not having your dinner
Chorus: Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Verse 2: People are filled with expectations that’s fine with me Opportunity comes but once so it’s time for me I don’t think of fire because it’s sunshine for me Something in the back of my HEAD!!!! Keeps reminding me Keep on listening hear, when I call There’s good, and that’s so just be good and stand tall A lot of people love your wish for me to fall I’m not scared, I pray to be who had created all Evils and the demons woo I don’t stop with them Hey they don’t like me, hey what’s up with them I just can’t do without Jah love because it lacks the oxygen I’m doing no fully, I don’t even no par with them
Chorus: Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long