Solomon chords by Mighty Sparrow

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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If I  had any doubts,
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now they're gone completely
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I  am living in true democracy
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If I had any doubts,
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now they're gone completely
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Our nation stands for true democracy
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I'm referring to that most
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regrettable disaster
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Through a corporal we lost
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our acting Prime Minister
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He complained to the Commission
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And made them kick out
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Paul Solomon
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Where in the world you could
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find democracy so?
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Except in Trinidad  Tobago,
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if was in America
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Is the corporal that had to  go
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In the first place a man
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like he couldn't see
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The commission of inquiry,
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don't care how he try
They'll charge him as a spy
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and tell the public he lie
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Oh, well, the good things you do,
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you never get credit
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But make one mistake, nobody forget it
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I agree he was wrong
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without any doubt
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Canceling the charge,
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letting the boy out
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But the way how some of
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these people criticizing
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You will think Solomon
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shouldn't have human feeling
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Just because he in politics,
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he must leave his stepson like Odogan in
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a cell to get killed with licks
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Some people say he too
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bold face an outer place
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Some of them
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facts because they hear
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he slap the doctor in the face
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But I  say Pat Solomon
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is still a damn good politician
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He only made a slip,
they throw him out with a kick
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This place too damn
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democratic
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Plenty people used to criticize the PNM,
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but the way things  turn
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out is a shock to them.
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They used to say that the
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doctor is a  dictator.
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Some went as far as to call him a traitor.
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But now it can be seen
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even by a blind man,
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what side of the fence the PNM stand.
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I  am sure now they all agree,
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P .N .M. stands for True Democracy
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In America,
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sunshine boy could be president
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For a million year tomorrow
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and  today he ain't got a black set
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For op portunity, America ain't bad
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For democracy, I like Trinidad
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Because the police force get snub,
a corporal push a knob,
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and the minister lost a good job
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In most other places it ain't so at all,
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they'll promote Solomon
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and kick the corporal
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Although democracy is what
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they go out and teach,
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you'll never see them practice
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what you hear them preach
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But the first thing we gave
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Solomon was a headline,
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opposition commission
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and the corporal in the tail
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He bound to resign,
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I really sympathize with he
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But I still say wrong
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for setting the boy free
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Now mind you, it is true
our nation
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needs strong men like
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Solomon
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Yeah, but no one is allowed
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to take the law in their hand
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Okay, drop the charge if you see it fit
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But it ain't what you do,
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it's how you do it
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Solomon acted like a lord,
trying to spare the rod,
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and now he die by the sword
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