Reggae Recipe chords by Desmond Dekker & The Aces

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Verse 1
C 
Right here and now, and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce for you a very soulful brother,
soul brother number one, from
Kingston,
Jamaica way!
Thank you ever so kindly. I'm here with my reggae machine,
and I'm gonna do you some good in the neighborhood like I should.
Hey, wait a minute, I hear a sound.
That sounds like organ.
Let me hear some drums to go with it,
please.
Come on now.
Mm -hmm, that sounds good.
How about some swinging guitar?
Please,
Mr.
B 
Eb 
Guitars, let me hear you.
C 
C 
Ay -yi -yi, baby, that sounds like it.
Eb 
C 
But let me hear some piano.
You can't sit on the keyboard.
Em 
Put your finger on it.
Eb 
Come on.
C 
Ay, thank you.
B 
Eb 
But I can't do it without the bass.
C 
Come on, bassy.
Move those fingers.
Let me hear it.
Eb 
E 
Swing it.
Ay -yi -yi, now you're doing your thing.
Eb 
That sounds like the thing.
F 
E 
Guitars, give me them reggae guitar,
Eb 
please.
E 
Aye, aye, aye.
Eb 
Man, ain't them sounds pretty?
It's just fabulous.
E 
I can't stand to listen to that thing.
Eb 
Throwin' me way out
of my mind.
E 
Now, come on now, blow it.
Eb 
Now, shake it, fellas, shake it well.
C 
And then start.
Aye, that's it.
Now we got
Desmond
B 
Decker and the
E 
Hasty thing.
C 
And they're gonna do their thing
B 
C 
with the reggae recipe.
Reggae
F 
C 
Recipe, la la la, la la la, la la
Reggae
F 
C 
Recipe, la la la, la la la, la la
B 
C 
You know I wonder why the grass is green
B 
and why the wind is never seen
C 
Who taught the birds to build their nest
G 
C 
and told the trees to take a rest
And when the moon is not quite round, tell me,
where can the missing bits be found
It can be found in the
Reggae
Recipe
C 
Come on fellas do your thing
B 
C 
B 
C 
Come on let me hear you
Reggae
Recipe
F 
C 
La la la la la la la
Reggae
Recipe
F 
C 
La la la la la la la
If you stay on my scene and be real keen
You won't be no jello bean
It's like the farmer said to the potato
I plant you now but I gonna dig you later
Give me the recipe fellas
C 
Reggae recipe, la, la,
F 
Db 
la, la, la, la, la
C 
C# 
Reggae recipe, la,
F# 
G#m 
C# 
la, la, la, la, la, la
Hit the spot with all you've got
C 
Because I'm a sure shot
F 
C 
I'm hot, I'm like the cat
C 
C 
You know, me, I'm free, I'm hip
I'm real set, baby
Db 
F 
Db 
So, I  wanna get some of them
swinging recipes from the
Reggae, do it!
Reggae
Abm 
Ab 
Db 
Recipe, la la la la la la    la  la
Reggae
Recipe, la la la la la la la la