Songs Of Your Land chords by Mighty Sparrow

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Intro 1

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This is not a

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simple song
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This is not an old time melody
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Yet you'll try to prove me wrong,
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but that is your specialty
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You wouldn't play in a band,
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you wouldn't beat a pan
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You wouldn't even sing a song,
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but you're criticizing all day long
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You do not appreciate
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anything this land create
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So you save up all your praise
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to be Isaac Hayes
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Woman of my heart, it is time you learn
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To cherish your own an
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d be more concerned
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If you want to make for your
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children's sake
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You've got to get up
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like everyone else
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and jump in a band
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Singin' the songs of your land
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All year long you dig in funk
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You spendin' your cash
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on soul records
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You deem our music bunk
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James Brung is your lord of lords
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You wouldn't learn to jump
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But you could do the bump
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You wouldn't even write a poem
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Those who do you criticize in them
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Frong your face on carnival
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And the steel band festival
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Then you rush to go and view
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Bruce Lee and Wang Yu
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Woman of my heart it is time you learn
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To cherish your own an
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d   be more concerned
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If you want to make for
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your children's sake
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You got to  get up  like everyone else
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and jump in a  band
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Singing the songs  of your hand
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Christmas time, the songs you know
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Tales of falling snow and mistletoe
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Bows of parsley and myrrh
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You hypocrite so and so
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Is only movie lang
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You throwing on parang
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And  then you talk about dignity
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Don't you know parang belong
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Suddenly you're foreign things,
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so silly and out of place
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Now checking out your creed and race,
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you're a damn disgrace
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Oh yeah, woman of my heart,
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it is time you learn
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To cherish your own an
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d be more concerned
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If you want to make for your
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children's sake
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You've got to get up  like everyone else
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and jump in  a band
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Singing the songs of your land
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Everyone should do  their share
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Everyone should play an active part
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You act like if you ain't care
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And so it does break my heart
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You do not do limbo, you do not do bongo
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And when it come to calypso,
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every calypso nyan is papi show
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Then you tell the steel band boys,
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how they making too much noise
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But no steel band in the town,
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noisy like James Brown
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Yes, woman of my heart,
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it is time you learn
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To cherish your own
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and   be more concerned
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If you want to make for your
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children's sake
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You've got to get up  like everyone else
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and jump in a band
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Singing the songs  of the young