Chords for Lord Kitchener - Speaks
Tempo:
107 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
B
Bbm
F
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I was born as a reamer on St.
Joseph Street.
[D] We used to call this season the guava season, which means hard time.
Because in those days, a family, they couldn't help themselves.
Never mind to help you.
I used to get along all right.
I was born in a musical family.
I was a [Eb] blacksmith.
He was [G] a singer.
He was a whistler.
When he was making the horseshoes, he used to make a kind of rhythm with the anvil.
[Bm]
[Gb] I wish I was a mango [A] tree, [D] planted [A] on lavender.
I wish I [F] was a [E] mango tree, [D] planted on lavender.
[C] And my quality [A] is mango well.
I'm [B] bearing one's eye.
[C] But my children must never fall.
I don't care if the bluebirds and them [Gb] eat all.
And look at dropping.
Brip, [B] broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, them school children run below.
But when [G] they reach, they hold their head and ball.
For when the trinkets, mangoes, [C] me branches fall.
I drop.
[Em] Brip, broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, [A] them school children run below.
But when they reach, they hold their [G] head and ball.
I left [E] Trinidad in 1948.
Went [Dm] to London and made my first record.
I was [G] a big hit in England.
I used to sing at the Churchill, where Princess Margaret used [Gm] to visit very often.
[F] Western dem [G] would explain to their English friends [C] what I was really saying.
So eventually, the English people [D] caught on, I saw.
Ah, bonnets, [Eb] don't call me [F] so.
I don't like it.
I want you [Bb] know.
Ah, bonnets, don't [E] call me so.
[A] I don't like it.
[B] I [E] want you know.
When you [Dm] call me [Eb] all this sweet name [E] stupidness.
[B] Then you leave me and you [A] gone.
I stop [F] foolish.
Well, darling, you will give me [E] misery.
Well, here this sweet name [A] that Bernie's calling me.
[Bb] Keech, come go to [F] bed.
I have a small comb [B] to scratch your head.
Keech, [Abm] don't make me [B] cry.
You know I love you.
[E] You're playing shy.
[B] Well, the people went crazy over that song.
They thought it was very sexy and things like that.
[F] And then, they [C] started coming to the club in the hundreds.
Things started working good for me.
[E] Until I, um, I was eventually singing in three clubs.
[G] So then, then I was in business.
That's when I enjoy life in England.
I love the cold then.
I got accustomed to the cold.
Now, I'm told that you are really the king of Calypso singers.
Is that right?
Yes, that's so true.
Are you singing for us?
Right now.
Yes.
London is the place for me.
[G] London, [D] this lovely city.
[E] You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia.
But you must come back to London City.
[G]
Well, believe me, I am speaking broad-mindedly.
I [B] am glad to know my mother country.
I've been traveling the country.
They call upon me to go to America.
It was a big Calypso craze.
[N]
They had Calypso buttons, Calypso shoes.
That was 1957.
Everybody was trying to get to America.
Because all that happened in [B] America was Calypso.
[B] [Bm]
[Ab] In Puerto [Bbm] Rico, there was [Eb] family.
[Bb] With more confusion, take it from me.
There was a mama and [Bbm] a papa with one child alone.
Who wanted to be married and [Ab] have a wife of his own.
So he [Bbm] went to the papa.
The papa [Eb] said, no, that girl is your sister, but your [Eb] mama don't know.
[Bbm] [Fm] [Bbm]
[Ab] [Eb]
[Fm] [Eb]
[Bbm] [Eb] [Ab] So he went to the mama.
[Bbm] The mama shook [Eb] her head when she found out what her [Ab] husband had said.
So she [F] paused for a moment, undecidedly.
This time the boy waited patiently.
[Abm] Then the mama, [Fm] she laughed and said, go, [Eb] man, go.
Your daddy ain't [Bb] your daddy, but your daddy don't know.
I tell [Bbm] you.
[Eb] [Fm] [Bbm] [Eb]
Belafonte [Ab] was the only man [Bbm] that the people accept [Ab] as a [F] Calypso-ian.
Although we know that Belafonte is not [Db] the authentic Calypso [F]-ian.
But to the people outside, he was.
And he helped Calypso in a big way.
The outer world understand Belafonte much better than they understand us.
[D] Because his accent
Joseph Street.
[D] We used to call this season the guava season, which means hard time.
Because in those days, a family, they couldn't help themselves.
Never mind to help you.
I used to get along all right.
I was born in a musical family.
I was a [Eb] blacksmith.
He was [G] a singer.
He was a whistler.
When he was making the horseshoes, he used to make a kind of rhythm with the anvil.
[Bm]
[Gb] I wish I was a mango [A] tree, [D] planted [A] on lavender.
I wish I [F] was a [E] mango tree, [D] planted on lavender.
[C] And my quality [A] is mango well.
I'm [B] bearing one's eye.
[C] But my children must never fall.
I don't care if the bluebirds and them [Gb] eat all.
And look at dropping.
Brip, [B] broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, them school children run below.
But when [G] they reach, they hold their head and ball.
For when the trinkets, mangoes, [C] me branches fall.
I drop.
[Em] Brip, broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, [A] them school children run below.
But when they reach, they hold their [G] head and ball.
I left [E] Trinidad in 1948.
Went [Dm] to London and made my first record.
I was [G] a big hit in England.
I used to sing at the Churchill, where Princess Margaret used [Gm] to visit very often.
[F] Western dem [G] would explain to their English friends [C] what I was really saying.
So eventually, the English people [D] caught on, I saw.
Ah, bonnets, [Eb] don't call me [F] so.
I don't like it.
I want you [Bb] know.
Ah, bonnets, don't [E] call me so.
[A] I don't like it.
[B] I [E] want you know.
When you [Dm] call me [Eb] all this sweet name [E] stupidness.
[B] Then you leave me and you [A] gone.
I stop [F] foolish.
Well, darling, you will give me [E] misery.
Well, here this sweet name [A] that Bernie's calling me.
[Bb] Keech, come go to [F] bed.
I have a small comb [B] to scratch your head.
Keech, [Abm] don't make me [B] cry.
You know I love you.
[E] You're playing shy.
[B] Well, the people went crazy over that song.
They thought it was very sexy and things like that.
[F] And then, they [C] started coming to the club in the hundreds.
Things started working good for me.
[E] Until I, um, I was eventually singing in three clubs.
[G] So then, then I was in business.
That's when I enjoy life in England.
I love the cold then.
I got accustomed to the cold.
Now, I'm told that you are really the king of Calypso singers.
Is that right?
Yes, that's so true.
Are you singing for us?
Right now.
Yes.
London is the place for me.
[G] London, [D] this lovely city.
[E] You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia.
But you must come back to London City.
[G]
Well, believe me, I am speaking broad-mindedly.
I [B] am glad to know my mother country.
I've been traveling the country.
They call upon me to go to America.
It was a big Calypso craze.
[N]
They had Calypso buttons, Calypso shoes.
That was 1957.
Everybody was trying to get to America.
Because all that happened in [B] America was Calypso.
[B] [Bm]
[Ab] In Puerto [Bbm] Rico, there was [Eb] family.
[Bb] With more confusion, take it from me.
There was a mama and [Bbm] a papa with one child alone.
Who wanted to be married and [Ab] have a wife of his own.
So he [Bbm] went to the papa.
The papa [Eb] said, no, that girl is your sister, but your [Eb] mama don't know.
[Bbm] [Fm] [Bbm]
[Ab] [Eb]
[Fm] [Eb]
[Bbm] [Eb] [Ab] So he went to the mama.
[Bbm] The mama shook [Eb] her head when she found out what her [Ab] husband had said.
So she [F] paused for a moment, undecidedly.
This time the boy waited patiently.
[Abm] Then the mama, [Fm] she laughed and said, go, [Eb] man, go.
Your daddy ain't [Bb] your daddy, but your daddy don't know.
I tell [Bbm] you.
[Eb] [Fm] [Bbm] [Eb]
Belafonte [Ab] was the only man [Bbm] that the people accept [Ab] as a [F] Calypso-ian.
Although we know that Belafonte is not [Db] the authentic Calypso [F]-ian.
But to the people outside, he was.
And he helped Calypso in a big way.
The outer world understand Belafonte much better than they understand us.
[D] Because his accent
Key:
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B
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F
E
Eb
B
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I was born as a reamer on St.
Joseph Street.
_ _ _ _ [D] We used to call this season the guava season, which means hard time. _ _
Because in those days, a family, they couldn't help themselves. _
_ Never mind to help you.
_ I used to get along all right.
I was born in a musical family.
I was a [Eb] blacksmith.
He was [G] a singer.
He was a whistler.
When he was making the horseshoes, he used to make a kind of rhythm with the anvil.
[Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ I wish I was a mango [A] tree, _ [D] planted [A] on lavender. _
I wish I [F] was a [E] mango tree, [D] _ planted on lavender.
[C] And my quality [A] is mango well.
I'm [B] bearing one's eye.
[C] But my children must never fall.
I don't care if the bluebirds and them [Gb] eat all.
And look at dropping.
Brip, [B] broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, them school children run below.
But when [G] they reach, they hold their head and ball.
For when the trinkets, mangoes, [C] me branches fall.
I drop.
[Em] Brip, broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, [A] them school children run below.
But when they reach, they hold their [G] head and ball. _ _ _ _
_ _ I left [E] Trinidad in 1948. _
Went [Dm] to London and made my first record. _
I was [G] a big hit in England.
I used to sing at the Churchill, where Princess Margaret used [Gm] to visit very often.
[F] _ Western dem [G] would explain to their English friends [C] what I was really saying.
So eventually, the English people [D] caught on, I saw.
_ _ Ah, bonnets, [Eb] don't call me [F] so.
I don't like it.
I want you [Bb] know.
Ah, bonnets, don't [E] call me so.
[A] I don't like it.
[B] I [E] want you know.
When you [Dm] call me [Eb] all this sweet name [E] stupidness.
[B] Then you leave me and you [A] gone.
I stop [F] foolish.
Well, darling, you will give me [E] misery.
Well, here this sweet name [A] that Bernie's calling me.
[Bb] _ _ Keech, come go to [F] bed.
I have a small comb [B] to scratch your head.
_ Keech, [Abm] don't make me [B] cry.
You know I love you.
[E] You're playing shy. _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] Well, the people went crazy over that song.
They thought it was very sexy and things like that.
[F] _ And then, they [C] started coming to the club in the hundreds.
Things started working good for me.
_ [E] _ _ Until I, um, _ I was eventually singing in three clubs.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ So then, then I was in business.
_ That's when I enjoy life in England.
I love the cold then.
I got accustomed to the cold.
Now, I'm told that you are really the king of Calypso singers.
Is that right?
Yes, that's so true.
Are you singing for us?
Right now.
Yes.
London is the place for me.
_ [G] _ _ _ London, [D] this lovely city.
[E] _ _ You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia.
But you must come back to London City.
_ [G] _
Well, believe me, I am speaking broad-mindedly. _ _
I [B] am glad to know my mother country.
_ _ I've been traveling the country.
They call upon me to go to America.
It was a big Calypso craze. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ They had Calypso buttons, Calypso shoes. _
That was 1957.
_ Everybody was trying to get to America.
Because all that happened in [B] America was Calypso. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] In Puerto [Bbm] Rico, there was [Eb] family.
[Bb] With more confusion, take it from me.
There was a mama and [Bbm] a papa with one child alone.
Who wanted to be married and [Ab] have a wife of his own.
So he [Bbm] went to the papa.
The papa [Eb] said, no, that girl is your sister, but your [Eb] mama don't know.
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] So he went to the mama.
[Bbm] The mama shook [Eb] her head when she found out what her [Ab] husband had said.
So she [F] paused for a moment, undecidedly.
This time the boy waited patiently.
[Abm] Then the mama, [Fm] she laughed and said, go, [Eb] man, go.
Your daddy ain't [Bb] your daddy, but your daddy don't know.
I tell [Bbm] you. _
[Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _
Belafonte [Ab] was the only man [Bbm] that the people accept [Ab] as a [F] Calypso-ian.
_ _ Although we know that Belafonte is not [Db] the authentic Calypso [F]-ian.
But to the people outside, he was. _ _
And he helped _ Calypso in a big way.
The outer world understand Belafonte _ much better _ than they understand us.
_ [D] _ _ _ Because his accent
Joseph Street.
_ _ _ _ [D] We used to call this season the guava season, which means hard time. _ _
Because in those days, a family, they couldn't help themselves. _
_ Never mind to help you.
_ I used to get along all right.
I was born in a musical family.
I was a [Eb] blacksmith.
He was [G] a singer.
He was a whistler.
When he was making the horseshoes, he used to make a kind of rhythm with the anvil.
[Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ I wish I was a mango [A] tree, _ [D] planted [A] on lavender. _
I wish I [F] was a [E] mango tree, [D] _ planted on lavender.
[C] And my quality [A] is mango well.
I'm [B] bearing one's eye.
[C] But my children must never fall.
I don't care if the bluebirds and them [Gb] eat all.
And look at dropping.
Brip, [B] broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, them school children run below.
But when [G] they reach, they hold their head and ball.
For when the trinkets, mangoes, [C] me branches fall.
I drop.
[Em] Brip, broop, broop, bree go.
Brigidig, [A] them school children run below.
But when they reach, they hold their [G] head and ball. _ _ _ _
_ _ I left [E] Trinidad in 1948. _
Went [Dm] to London and made my first record. _
I was [G] a big hit in England.
I used to sing at the Churchill, where Princess Margaret used [Gm] to visit very often.
[F] _ Western dem [G] would explain to their English friends [C] what I was really saying.
So eventually, the English people [D] caught on, I saw.
_ _ Ah, bonnets, [Eb] don't call me [F] so.
I don't like it.
I want you [Bb] know.
Ah, bonnets, don't [E] call me so.
[A] I don't like it.
[B] I [E] want you know.
When you [Dm] call me [Eb] all this sweet name [E] stupidness.
[B] Then you leave me and you [A] gone.
I stop [F] foolish.
Well, darling, you will give me [E] misery.
Well, here this sweet name [A] that Bernie's calling me.
[Bb] _ _ Keech, come go to [F] bed.
I have a small comb [B] to scratch your head.
_ Keech, [Abm] don't make me [B] cry.
You know I love you.
[E] You're playing shy. _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] Well, the people went crazy over that song.
They thought it was very sexy and things like that.
[F] _ And then, they [C] started coming to the club in the hundreds.
Things started working good for me.
_ [E] _ _ Until I, um, _ I was eventually singing in three clubs.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ So then, then I was in business.
_ That's when I enjoy life in England.
I love the cold then.
I got accustomed to the cold.
Now, I'm told that you are really the king of Calypso singers.
Is that right?
Yes, that's so true.
Are you singing for us?
Right now.
Yes.
London is the place for me.
_ [G] _ _ _ London, [D] this lovely city.
[E] _ _ You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia.
But you must come back to London City.
_ [G] _
Well, believe me, I am speaking broad-mindedly. _ _
I [B] am glad to know my mother country.
_ _ I've been traveling the country.
They call upon me to go to America.
It was a big Calypso craze. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ They had Calypso buttons, Calypso shoes. _
That was 1957.
_ Everybody was trying to get to America.
Because all that happened in [B] America was Calypso. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] In Puerto [Bbm] Rico, there was [Eb] family.
[Bb] With more confusion, take it from me.
There was a mama and [Bbm] a papa with one child alone.
Who wanted to be married and [Ab] have a wife of his own.
So he [Bbm] went to the papa.
The papa [Eb] said, no, that girl is your sister, but your [Eb] mama don't know.
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] So he went to the mama.
[Bbm] The mama shook [Eb] her head when she found out what her [Ab] husband had said.
So she [F] paused for a moment, undecidedly.
This time the boy waited patiently.
[Abm] Then the mama, [Fm] she laughed and said, go, [Eb] man, go.
Your daddy ain't [Bb] your daddy, but your daddy don't know.
I tell [Bbm] you. _
[Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _
Belafonte [Ab] was the only man [Bbm] that the people accept [Ab] as a [F] Calypso-ian.
_ _ Although we know that Belafonte is not [Db] the authentic Calypso [F]-ian.
But to the people outside, he was. _ _
And he helped _ Calypso in a big way.
The outer world understand Belafonte _ much better _ than they understand us.
_ [D] _ _ _ Because his accent