...BAD MAN... by Steel Pulse
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*from 'Handsworth Revolution' (1978)*
Intro:
Bm D Em (x2)
Bridge 1:
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh,
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh.
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh,
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh.
Bm Em F#m
No matter how you bad, I man; badder than you,
Bm Em F#
No matter how you dread, I man; dreader than you.
Bm Em F#
No matter how you hard, I man harder than you,
Bm Em F#
No matter how you raw, I more-weak heart, back way so.
Chorus 1:
Bm Em F#m
A bad man no want go back into cap-tivity,
Bm Em F#m
A bad man no want go back to slavery.
Bm Em F# Bm Em F#
Up-rising, from the claws of the wicked.
Verse 1:
Bm Em F#
Two bulls can't reign in one pen,
Bm Em F#
Two lions can't roar in a small den.
Bm Em F#
Two scorpions don't sting at the same spot,
Bm Em F#
Two guns can't fire the same bullet shot, so;
Chorus 2:
Bm Em F#m
A bad man no want go back into cap-tivity,
Bm Em F#m
A bad man no want go back to slavery.
Bm Em F# Bm Em F#
Up-rising, from the claws of the wicked.
Verse 2:
Bm Em F#m
Two kings don't wear the same crown,
Bm Em F#m
Two beauties don't have the same gown on.
Bm Em F#m
To-morrow is too late to leave town,
Bm
If you're still here at noon,
Em F#m
There'll be one big, big, big showdown, so;
Chorus 3:
Bm Em F#
Up-rising, upri-sing,
Bm Em F#
Up-rising, upri-sing.
Break:
F#m Bm
I give you 'till noon to go,
F#m Bm
On your way to sur-vival, where;
F#m Bm
Your heart will beat more fonder with life,
F#m Bm
And breath still enters your body.
Bridge 2:
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh,
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh.
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh,
Bm Em F#
Dem dread seh.
Bm Em F#m
No matter how you bad, I man; badder than you,
Bm Em F#
No matter how you dread, I man; dreader than you.
Bm Em F#
No matter how you hard, I man harder than you,
Bm Em F#
No matter how you raw, I more-weak heart, back way so.
Verse 3:
Bm Em F#
If you still coming; me nah run,
Bm Em F#
If you still coming; me ah go, drop you.
Bm Em F#
If you still coming; me nah run,
Bm Em F#
So better stop running be-fore I, break you.
Bm Em F#
So run and hide before I find you,
Bm Em F#
Woe betide if I catch up on you.
Bm Em F#
If you still coming; I box you down,
Bm Em F#
If you still coming; I clart you down.
Break:
Bm Em F#
Long time...
Bm Em F#
We deh under backraw.
Bm Em F#
Long time we deh under back-raw,
Bm Em F#
Long time we deh under back-raw.
Bm Em F#
Long time we deh under back-raw,
Bm Em F#
Long time we deh under back-raw.
Verse 4:
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Four hundred years,
Bm Em F#
(Many, many years).
Bm Em F#
Four hundred years,
Bm Em F#
(Many, many years).
Bm Em F#
Slavery,
Bm Em F#
Slavery.
Bm Em F#
Slavery,
Bm
Days...
Coda:
Bm Em F#
Oh, you've been bought,
Bm Em F#
Oh, you've been sold.
Bm Em F#
Oh, cast over me,
Bm Em F#
Got strung up for nothing at all.
Bm Em F#
Strange fruit,
Bm Em F#
Strange fruit.
Bm Em F#
Strange fruit,
Bm Em F#
Strange fruit.
Outro:
Bm Em F#
(Repeat to Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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Bm D Em F# F#m
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EAD G B E EAD G B E
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)