Peas And Rice chords by Maya Angelou

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Verse 1
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My husband is a tropical man,
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you see.
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He is a native of
Dubladee.
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Dubladee, all the natives you see,
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they love roast pork and rice and peas.
Knowing me husband
loves rice and peas
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Being a lady who loves to please
I decided to cook him some
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Before me horses started to run
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I put the peas in the pot to cook
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I get the paper an d start to look
To see what odds they are giving
away
Me favourite horse
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was running that day
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I put the peas in the pot to cook
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I put the peas in the pot to cook
But me horse was running
at twenty to one
So me peas and me rice come out burn,
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burn
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Me peas burn up an d me pot get black
Just then me husband,
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he comes back
Me husband makes a right swing at me
I get mixed up with the rice and the peas
He says, I know
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this has happened before
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I smell a burn, burn outside the door
When I come home
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and me work is done
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Me house is filled with confusion
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You put the peas in the pot to cook
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But you're too busy to take a look
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The peas in the pot, they both get black
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Why don't you marry with the horses
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and live at the track?
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I take a seat in the easy chair
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Right by the door to catch
some air
My husband swing
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around to knock me down
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My chair fold up and I hit the ground
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I jump on my foot and I start to run
My husband throw at
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me a pepper can
The pepper fly out and
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it make me sneeze
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I jump in the yard just to catch
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the breeze
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When I think what me husband said
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He won't love me till the day I dead
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It break me heart and it make me cry
Big tear drops fall out me eye
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I stay in the yard till late at night
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I  decide me to face the fight
When I walk in what do me I see
Me husband in the bed
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with me racing sheet
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I put the peas in the pot to cook I  put the
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peas in the pot to cook
But if me house comes in
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at twenty to one
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Then me peas and me rice
and me pot
And me house burn, burn, burn
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