Chords for "Barbados Calypso Music" Rudefus - De Church Bell (Crop Over 2022) LIVE

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_ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] And now for tonight's bedtime story.
Once upon a time in Barbados, there lived an old man called Rudefus.
His village was nice.
He enjoyed his life.
But things changed right before his old eyes.
Drug pushers were seen on every street corner.
The air filled with gunshots [F] and _ gunpowder.
The people would steal, no longer ideal to respect or look out for each other.
The [Bm] children were rude.
Their language was lewd.
It's time to [Ab] move out, he had to conclude.
_ So he left _ and went far away,
where the only noise heard was the sound of a chirping bird.
_ No sirens from police.
He felt a relief and the bed went in quiet and peace. _
And asleep he fell.
He thought all was well, but was awakened by a loud church bell. _ _ _ _ _
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Good evening [G] everybody. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ Granddaddy, no [Ab] lies. _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] Well, [F] I can't take it no more.
I'm gonna go get this [C] break. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ To get me from malicious people, I'm in smoking [E] hurt by [F] myself. _ _ _
_ Granddaddy, I can't take it no more, I have to get from out [C] there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Someone's stealing my motorcycle, stealing from me, hiding [F] here. _ _ _
[Bb] And over there, somebody's shooting.
Little [F] children crossing your street.
[C] They plan to walk through your door.
They [F] get kicked before you can play.
[Eb] Well, I [Bb] load up my [Bbm] donkey charge and I [F] head far into [Dm] the country.
[C] I find a nice little board house with a church right [F] next to me.
_ _ [C] But the world let me sleep in [F] peace. _ _
[C] Every night the choir boys [Dm] and the priests _ got [C] the church bell ringing.
[Dm] Church bell [Bb] ringing.
And also the [C] night they make some damn [F] noise. _ _ _ _
Bell ringing.
[Dm] Every night the choir boys kneeling down.
Bell ringing.
The angels burning strong.
Bell ringing.
But the wind passed. _ _ _
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Well, so [Bb] I [Gm] really [C] hope somebody will [F] hand me the bell.
Hey, hey, hey.
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Boy, [Dm] _ he [D] died there.
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ Well, for sure, I can't take it no more, the noise pollution.
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_ _ _ _ Noise pollution have brought my dad a serious _ [F] problem. _
_ For sure, I want to know for sure, we got some [C] jokers. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Early morning, the sun is rising and they're moving me [F] workers. _
_ _ [Bb] Men take off by Sunday morning, [F] all night they're moving, yeah.
_ [C] _ Barking like a [F] bulldozer, cut your toes and turn in the [Cm] bed.
[Bb] Yawmy yawmy all through [Bbm] the night, I just [D] screaming [Dm] and don't achieve.
[C] Loving God or the burning rubber, when they leave the [F] vicinity. _ _ _
[C] The death they _ force me [Dm] to laugh.
_ The [C] burning grass I leave, I don't care [G] who [Dm] calls the death.
_ _ Even [C] when I was leaving, _ [Dm] a power woke me begging.
[Bb] I know I get no here, [C] let me get your damn [Fm] bell.
Bollang, ah, _ [Bb] _ [F] bollang, _ night and day the bollang.
I used to sing the churches, bollang, [Dm] all from the yard and bollang.
Mouths say to the redder man, bollang, ah ha, bollang, ah ha, bollang.
And the choir leader, _ bollang, up top the yard, [Bb] bollang.
Redder man from the choir, bollang, _ [Dm] bollang.
Train is buying up [C] everything [Dbm] down [Dm] here, you know for real.
[Gm] So I ready [C] home, I ready work, by [F] the bell, hey, hey, hey, [C] hey, hey.
Boing, [Dm] _ _ [Gb] _
ding.
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[F] _ _ _ _ Now a day, I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ sang call, about the high life, bell and the cost of [C] living. _
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So we stop by a water bill, they say, they want me [F] moving.
_ _ _ [Bb] And for a national hero, something [F] like how we under the dress.
[C] She had four, she married all of us, she needs [F] to dress like Queen [A] Elizabeth.
_ [Bb] They used to give a calling, [F] say there was a [Dm] robbery.
_ They were [C] guns and murder, soldiers, they want to hang [F] somebody. _
_ [C] But then, the God only [Dm] declare, _ [F] _ he [C] believe it, and [Dm] we have to. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ People talking, bollang, and the bell interrupting, bollang.
I can't hear one thing, bollang, all the sound that you're saying is bollang.
_ Bollang, bollang, well I'll snatch up the radio, bollang.
Put me ear to the speaker, bollang.
But the bell ring harder, bollang, [Bb] bollang.
Some of these lawyers, [C] they feel [Dm] real bad, they don't know well.
[Gm] So I really hope [Am] a lawyer will take [F] the bell.
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ [B] Me a borrow money [Gb] non-stop, [Bbm] I hope she will borrow [Gb] the bell.
The [B] monkeys destroy [Gb] my crop, but would not destroy the bell.
I better [B] leave it here [Db] tonight.
[Bbm] I don't care who [Ebm] you tell, [B] I can't wait to [Db] see the church and have [Ebm] the bell.
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[B] Cause the government got [Db] police busy, [Bbm] police ain't got no time [Ebm] to run behind me.
[B] So I'm [Db] going in the church and break [Gb] up the bell, watch me now.
Ok, [Db] break up the bell, [Gb] break up the bell, [Db] break up the bell,
[Gb] break up the bell, [Db] break up, break [Gb] up, break up,
[Db] break up, break [Gb] up, break up, break up,
break [Db] up, break up. _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ Don't [Bb] bite me now.
_ What you [G] don't want me sleep at night?
[Bb] What you don't know who you're dealing with?
[B] Come on. _ _
_ First, I can carry the _ [Gb] _ crown, [Db] then go carry the [Gb] _ _ bell.
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Love it!
_ [B] Granddaddy gone. _ _ _
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