Chords for Alpha Blondy - Video and Interview Circa late 80's

The branch where, you know, where the nest is.
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_ _ [D] _ I've been in [C] Abidjan.
All the young reggae men we've spoken to have quoted [G] you as their main influence.
[C] But what were your main influences in the beginning?
How did you start?
[F] Well, my [A] influence was Bob Marley.
And _ [D] when I was [C] in America, I was kind of searching for a [G] music that can really show, kind of define my own identity, musical [F] identity and cultural identity.
[A] And reggae music came back [C] and for me it was a gift of God.
And that's why when I came in the Abri course and I started [E] playing reggae, all the kids just followed [G] because they [C] also identified themselves through all that [G] music.
_ So I wouldn't [C] say that it's the talent of Alpha Blondie.
It's [G] the gift of God.
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_ [A] You're a big cult figure, [C] particularly amongst the young reggae fans here.
Do you feel a responsibility to [B]
set them any kind of [C] an example?
I want to be _ a positive [F] example.
_ [A] I don't want to just preach, _ let's get high and let's, you know, [C] let's boogie.
You know, I want to say, let's give thanks and praise to [F#] God.
So [Em] let's go to church.
Let's go to the mosque.
You [C] know, whatever [G] we do, let's [E] _
give thanks and praise to [F] God.
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_ _ [A] Well, it's an [C] _ _
anti _ _ _ -racist [Em] _
song, you know, called Black Men [C] Tears.
Because wherever you go, you hear _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _
[G] some talking about [G#] niggers, you know, _ nigger kickers and stuff.
[C] You know, for me, [A] that's a kind of, how do you call it?
That's a kind [B] of _ _ _ running away from reality.
You know, _ black and white are bound to live together, bound to accept each other, [E] you know, _ _ [N]
because they all die.
And the mission that we have to do here, we're bound to do it together.
_ That's why I made Black Men Tears.
_ That's why I say, when they're living big, they say they're white, because money, you know, but they die, they die.
And the way they die, the way we die, they die.
And we're all going back to black.
So while we're living, why can't [A] we live together?
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_ _ _ You've [D] lived abroad, _ but now [Bm] you're living in Abidjan.
And a lot [D] of musicians from Africa, [C] when they go abroad, they stay [A] abroad.
Why did you come [G] back here?
Why is it important for you to be [D] here?
You know, we can go in Europe or in America, _ _ _ perform, [G] and we have to come back.
[E] _ _ _ _ [C] Africa needs us here.
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