Jah Heavy Load Chords by Ijahman Levi

_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] Yes, [Am] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ way back in [G] [A] 1975, _ _ _ [F] I did [Em] this song.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G]
[C] If I really know [F] what it was all about, I [A] would really sing it. _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Em] Being an instrument of [Am] Jah, [Em] and a servant of the Most High God, [F] Jah Ras Tafari,
[Em] _
[A] _ I have to sing [F] this song.
_ [Em] _ _
But no [A] song is without a meaning.
[G] So that's the [F] idea.
_ [Em] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Em] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _
[G] I've got to [E] carry [Fm] Jah in my [Em] [Am] pillow _
_ _ [F] _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _
_ Because [G] I [E] walk [F] in His gladness [Am] _ _ on [F] His [Em] merry merry [C] road
[G] _ [Am] _ _ [G] I've got to carry [F] Jah in [Em] my [Am] pillow
_ [E] I've [F] _ [Em] _
_ [C] _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [G] got to back [E] up [F] myself [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [F] against [Em] false [C] evidence
[G] _ [Am] _ _ I've got [G] to [E] carry [F] Jah in [D] my [Am] pillow _
[F] Lord, _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _
I've [Em] got to pick up [F] where them [Em] say [A] Jah [F] left [Em] off and [C] gone
[G] _ [Am] _
_ _ [G] _ [E] _ [F] [G] I've _ [A]
got to carry [F] Jah [Em] heavy heavy [A]
load
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ [F] [Em] Oh Lord, _
[Am] _ _ _ I [Em] _ [C] _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _
[Em] am [A] heavy
_ [F] _ [A] _ [Em] _ [C] _
[G] _ [Am] _ In my [G] meditation, _ [F] when I reason with Him _ _ [G] clearly
_ [Am] _ In [G] _ _ _
[F] my visions of dreams, _ _ _ _ _ when [G] He [A] reasons with me
[G] _ _ I feel [Am] Jah hearty calling, [Em] _ oh I know what I believe
_ I believe in Jah, Jah truth and _ _
[G] right
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _
_ [G] [Am] I've got to carry [F] Jah [Em]
heavy [G] heavy [A] load
_ _ [C] _ _ [F]
Oh Lord, [Em] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F]
I've [G] _ [A] got to carry [F] Jah [A] _ [Em]
heavy heavy [Am] load
_ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
[Em] _ _ [Am] Oh Lord, _ I [Em] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F]
[G] am heavy
[Am] _ Listen [F] _ _ [Em] _
[C] _ [G] _ [A] _ to the man [G] walking at the council [F] of the El Gadi of [G] Jah
[A] And [F] sit in the [Em] seat of His power
[C] [G] And [Am] _ stand in [G] the ways of sinners of [F] Jah
_ [Em] _ [A] But it is the night, [F] _ [C] it is Jah [A] Ras Tafari
[G] And holding [F] Jah, will He [E] meditate [A] the night
_ _ [F] _ _ [Em] _
[C] _ [G] _ [A] _ In a [G] _ situation [F] that is spreading across the nation
_ [A] Trying _ [G] to dim the light, [F] being precious in my father's sight
_ _ _ [Em] Saying [A] that Ras [Am] _
[G] Tafari, father's child [Dm] will [Am] hurt no longer _
[Em] _ _ But in Zion is my father's throne
In another is His [G] footstool _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ [G] _
[A] I've got to [F] carry Jah [A] [Em] heavy heavy [A] _ load
[Gm] Oh [F] _ _ [Em]
[A] Lord, _ _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] I've [Em] _
[A] got to carry [F] Jah _ [Em] heavy [A] heavy load
[Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] [Am] Oh Lord, _ _ [F] _ _ [Em] I said I [A] feel it every day
[Gm] _ [F] Oh [Em] _ [A] Lord, _ _ [F] _ [A] _ [C] I said it's [A] heavy every day
[Gm] Oh [Dm] _ [G] _ [A] Lord, _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ [A] Jah is so [G] heavy heavy heavy [Em] heavy every [A] day
_ [F] _ [Em] Oh _ [A] heavy every day [G] [E] Oh [F] _ [Am] Lord _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [Ab] _ _ _