Slave Chords by Lucky Dube

_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [F] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] The ministers [F] of religion [Gm] have [Cm] visited me [Bb] many times [F] to talk about [Bb] it.
They say to me, [F] I got [Bb] to [Eb] leave her, if I [Cm] don't leave [Bb] her, it's a bad [Dm] habit for a [Bb] monk.
But when I try [F]
to [Eb] leave her, her [Cm] friends keep telling [Gm] me I'm a fool, [F] a monk.
[Bb] _ _ I'm a [F] slave, a [Eb] slave.
_ _ _ [Bb] I'm a lead [F] _ [Gm] custodian.
I'm [Bb] a slave, [F] _
a slave.
[Eb] I'm a slave, a slave.
[Bb] I'm a lead [F] custodian.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] I [Bb] have longed [Dm] for [F] dignity I had [Gm] before [Eb] trying to [Bb] please [F] God.
[Bb] _ Some say to me, I [F] look _ bad when [Eb] I'm drunk.
Some say, no, no, no, [Bb] I look bad.
[F] _ [Bb] _ Sometimes I cry, [F] _
I cry.
[Gm] But [Eb] my crying [Bb] never helps in [F] my [Gm] thoughts now.
[Bb] I am a slave, [F] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] just a legal [F] slave.
[Bb] _ I'm a slave, [F] _
a prisoner.
[Gm] _ [Eb] I'm a slave, [Bb] just a legal [F] slave.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] Every night when [F] I'm coming back home, [Gm] my wife is worried [Eb] because she knows it's [Bb] that double trouble [Dm] come home.
[Bb] Sometimes I [Dm] cry, [F] I _ [Gm] cry.
[Eb] But my [Bb] crying never [F] helps me.
[Bb] I'm a slave, _ [F] _
a [G] slave.
_ [Eb] _ I'm [Bb] a legal slave.
_ I'm a slave, a [F] _
_ _ _ [Eb] slave.
_ [Bb] I'm a legal [F] slave.
[Bb] I'm a slave, _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Gm] [Eb] a slave.
I'm a prisoner.
[Bb] I'm a legal [F] slave.
[Bb] _ I'm a slave.
_ [F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _