This Is Madness chords by Mighty Sparrow
Intro 1
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This is
Verse 1
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madness,
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this is madness
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Once upon a time this
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country was sweet
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People put a lime freely on the street
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Where there was naught or salt,
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you could always walk without
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The fear of molestation and intimidation
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We had no money, but used to live right
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The people used to be
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just poor and polite
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It didn't matter what,
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we were always taught to have
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Oh now, your mother and father,
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and love thy neighbor
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No honor and respect gone
through the door
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We're living in a state
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of undeclared war
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The youths are kidding
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like they ain't sent their hands
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down to abstain
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Shouting out, don't call me name,
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I ain't taking no kind of blame
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Something happened along the way,
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no honesty
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Was in the throne of the world
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This is madness, madness
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This is madness,
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total madness
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Something happen along the way
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Morality we can no longer af ford
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This is madness, madness,
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this is madness
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Total madness,
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what's going on in my country, Lord?
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Tell me what is wrong, I want to know
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Hijackers,
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kidnappers and multiple murderers
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Trinidad and Nubevo
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Long ago was never, never so
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This is madness
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This is madness
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People used to go in to sleep anytime
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With the window open,
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no worries but cry
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Because the bugler rises
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The peeping toms and mischief makers
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were all behind bars
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Now the murder rate gone up,
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I ain't tellin' lies
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Like the crime wouldn't stop,
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don't care how we try
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The realization is that the laws of the nation
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Is in chaos and total
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breakdown
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Rationality is no longer the norm.
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It might well be we need
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more social reform.
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Politicians do find in theirself
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in all kind of sex for that.
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But allegations can't be used as facts.
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So, not me, I ain't touching that.
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Something happen along the way now.
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Self -respect seem to have little value.
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This is madness, madness
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This is madness,
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total madness
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Something happened my lonely way
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When intellect cannot resolve my issue
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This is madness, madness
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This is madness, total madness
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What's go ing on in my country, Lord?
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Tell me what is wrong,
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I want to know
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Disrespect the contempt,
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decent people cannot cope
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Giving the truth, they share in losing hope
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In the battle against the crime
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and dog
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This is violence
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We could make the case,
here was paradise
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And no other place on earth was so nice
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On land or sea or foam
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Once your navel's straightly buried here
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You then must come back home
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The living was easy,
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now things get so tense
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The reason is clearly too much violence
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I say the wicked and the evil
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Intimidation terrorizes the
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decent people
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But the oil and the other resources
still doing well
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Carnaval, Calypso and steel vans
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still weave us well
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But it's heart -rending
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when you realize the fear
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you can dispel
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What was once a paradise,
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nowadays is just a living hell
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Something happened along the way,
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no dignity
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Seem to be sick and forlorn
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This is madness, madness
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This is madness,
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total madness
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Something happened along the way,
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integrity
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It's all but over and done
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This is madness
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Madness
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This is madness
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Total madness
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What's going on
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In my country, Lord?
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Tell me what is wrong, I want to know
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Why we cast aside intelligence
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And abandon common sense
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With unprecedented violence
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For which there is little defense
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This is madness
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This is madness
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The sorrow and the pain
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revealed in this song
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By the things that I've seen,
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I wish I was wrong
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Because you must admit
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That it do make sense
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to wash your dirty linen in public
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Tell me where to hide it
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I guess I'm out to stop,
so take my advice
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It's time to wake up and
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open your eyes
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Bring back the good old days
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Let the Lord be praised
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and leave the devil and his wicked
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evil ways
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The nation's youth must know
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they mustn't stop trying
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So talk the truth to them
and stop all denying
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Leaders must be circumspect
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and guidance must be shown
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The youths must use their intellect
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for a happy future of their own
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Something happened along the way
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for the unrighteous
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Is now the rich and famous
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This is madness, madness
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This is madness,
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total madness
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Something happen along the way
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The protective force
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Is no example to us
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This is madness
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Madness
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This is madness
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Total madness
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What's go ing on
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In my country, Lord
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Tell me what is wrong
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I want to know
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Wickedness is widespread
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Even babies gonna be spread
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Oh, the rat's got enough head
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And the citizenry from his head
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This is Black Mass
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This is Black Mass
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Put a hand, save the
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nation
you
This Is Madness
Mighty Sparrow
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