Poverty chords by
Culture

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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Am

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If you hungry,

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you is a boy (yes!)

If you and your woman hungry,

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you is a damn

boy (yes!)

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And if you and your woman

and your pickney

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hungry, you is a piece of. mmm, mmm

Woke up and look at poverty

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this morning

Said to poverty,

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"you can't stay inna me

yard" (come out!)

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So me tek up me cutlass and

start to do some

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farming

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While some man lef' dem

country from early

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this morning, and

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Poverty knocking at the door

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in their back yard

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Poverty knocking at the door

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in their back yard

Dem nuh want a job

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Poverty knocking at the

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door in their back yard

Let me remind you

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Poverty knocking at their door

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in their back yard

Hear me!

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Soon and very soon the

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red sun will be rising

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It gone to the West,

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coming forward from the

East

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And along with that,

Mr. Hungry with a long

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knife will be following

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And always him and him

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bound to get a stab

Don't you hear me when I say?

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Poverty knocking at the door

Am

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in their back yard

Can't you hear me when I say?

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Poverty knocking at the

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door in their back yard

Not even a pound of sugar

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Poverty knocking at the door

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Dm

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in their back yard

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Am

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Don't you hear me when I say?

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Poverty knocking at the door in their back

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yard

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Em

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D

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(.)

Some a dem run away an'

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leave their country

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(mi nah go back!)

Claiming that they can't

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find nothing to do

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They refuse from their

grandfather - do the

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farming

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And tek up a gun,

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just want some quick money

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But dust to dust and ash to ash,

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life get funny

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An' you gone down ah??,

down in a piece of old

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box, Lord

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Poverty knocking at the

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door in their back yard

Hear me when I say

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Poverty knocking at the

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door in their back yard

No mentality

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Poverty knocking at the door

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in their back yard

Where is your mentality?

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Poverty knocking at the door

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in their back yard

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"You nuh see after me

sharpen my cutlass

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And go build up my garden

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I don't want go work for a man

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Em

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for a farthing

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Because my heart will harden"

Wake up and look at poverty early

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this morning

(come outside!)

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Saying to him you just

can't stay inna Rasta

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yard (you nuh hear?)

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So me tek up me 'lass and

then mi start to do

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some farming

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Fi mek mi name nuh go fi

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thief and gone abroad

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For poverty knocking at

the door in their back

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yard

All because dem lazy

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Poverty knocking at the door

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in their back yard??

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Poverty knocking at the

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door in their back yard

Dm

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Am

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Run away and leave them, Dread!

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