No Dreads chords by Lee “Scratch” Perry
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Verse 1
No (G major) dread (A major) s, no (G major) help, no help
No dreads, (D major) (G major) no dreads,
(D major) no, no help
(G major) No mercy, no dread (B minor) s,
don't come in
Don't (G major) come in, (E minor) dread,
(B minor) don't come through the iron gate
Says the li (G major) on fate,
I offer the dates in my hand
And (A major) the lion said, "No (G major) dreads,
no dreads, (A major) no dreads
What that on (G major) your head?!"
We are defend (A major) ing the baldhead
extraterrestrial (G major) brother
Hare Krishna, (A major) Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna, Krishna (D major) Hare
Hare Rama, Rama (G major) (D major) Ramta,
Santa Santa
And the green chari (G major) ot of fire
Lead (D major) Perry (B minor) into the dragon
And wake up Bruce Lee, kar (E minor) ate
(B minor) Boo kung fu, (A major) boo (B minor) kun g fu,
I'm- a rich (G major) er than you
Boo Americans,
boo, I'm richer (A major) than you
Boo Queen Elizabeth (G major) ,
boo, from my poo poo (A major)
Could (G major) you, Scooby Doo,
doo doo, (A major) Snoopy too
Snoopy (G major) flies in the air, way!
"Come (A major) fly with me," Bushy say,
"Way!"
(D major) I go down in the gutter and
(G major) suffer and suffer
Can't find no (D major) bread, no butter, no broth
Can (G major) 't get no starch,
can't get no (D major) hatch
And won't find the chicken (G major) back,
chicken rack
Chick (D major) en back and back,
hit dem with (G major) the rock
I say, (D major) gimme the rock,
gimme the rock, and (G major) gimme the road
Yeah, gim (A major) me the ma (D major) gic and
the ancient Ethiopian scroll
(G major) And let the wicked (A major) fades (B minor) away
Fades away and watch an (E minor) d pray
And clear the (B minor) way and fades
away from my (G major) present
And we enter the future
(A major) Be down there saying saluting
to the (G major) great Pluto
Who wears (A major) the boots- a and boots- a
And say, (G major) "To root- a!"
Flash lightning and (A major) let the children clap
I shoot (G major) dem with thunderclap
I (A major) will, yeah, stone (D major) age skinhead cap
(G major) No one can stop Marcus
(D major) Garvey (G major) camp
You they cannot stamp
Who dare (D major) insult (B minor) thee upset
and lift the bag about it
The (E minor) story goes, (B minor) hey, Django shoot
and ask ques (G major) tion later
Which dread died? Who enter,
(A major) said, the sky?
Which dread died? (G major) Who enter,
said, the space
Said, you (A major) is Martian
Which dread died? (G major) Baldhead we born
without (A major) hair on no head
(G major) Without any debris fell (A major) in the
underpants and no panty (D major)
Hey, naked we come, (G major) naked we go
We didn't come up (D major) with the riches
and silver and gold
(G major) Not (B minor) the earth got the silver, the gold,
the diamonds (G major) and the pearls
(E minor) So (B minor) how come you black African fighting for
my dia (G major) monds and pearls?
When you don't know who I am
And wor (A major) shiping Satan and
(G major) selling the malefactors
European (A major) world, you killing (G major) elephants
Eating dead meat (A major) s
Yeah, why (G major) you worshiping cannibal?
Why you (A major) don't love the animal, animal?
(D major) Ooh, (G major) hey, (D major) mum, bay, bah!
(G major) Hey, baa- baa (D major) black sheep get vexed
(G major) Marcus Garvey take back (D major) his ex
(G major) Yeah, Lee Scott pray (D major) call back for his sex
(G major) Old King Cole call back his
sil (D major) ver and gold
Yeah, (G major) silver and gold (D major) I buy enough
And I have not, not (G major) bluff
In the name of Jesus Christ
(D major) get up and rock
I will (G major) have you killed on the spot
(D major) Rat- a- tat- a- pa- (G major) pa- pow, just like that
(D major) Wap, wap, wap, clip,
clip and (G major) cut off your cap
Turn your (D major) back and
take the lurch and rock (G major)
Hey, (D major) now I say teenagers live up to frack
I (G major) bought a stiff dick
(D major) My name is Dick Graceman and I am Batman,
are you ready?
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