Chords for This is Ska! (1/4) 1964 Jimmy Cliff/Prince Buster/Toots & The Maytals and more...

_ _ _ _ Since 1959, the West End of Kingston, Jamaica, [Ab] has throbbed with a musical beat.
A hypnotic sound of surging excitement and power.
People hearing it became caught up in a frenzy and couldn't help moving to this pulsating, almost religious beat.
This is Ska.
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_ [Eb] _ [Ab] Ska, Ska, Ska, [Bbm] _ [Eb] [Ab] something is beating,
[Bbm] Ka [Eb]-cha-cha, [Ab] not everybody [Bbm] can do the Ska,
[Eb]
[Ab] But everybody [Db] can [Dbm] do the Ska,
[Ab] It's a new dance you can't resist.
Ska, Ska, Ska, [Bbm] _ [Eb] [Ab] Jamaica,
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[Ab] Now everybody [Dbm] can do the Ska,
[Ab] It's a new dance that goes like this.
Now, bow your head, [Bbm] _ [Eb] [Ab] swing your arms, [Bbm] _
[Eb] [Ab] shake your hips, [Bbm] _ [Eb] [Ab] now do a dip.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bbm] [Ab] Jamaica, Ska, [Bbm] _
_ [Ab] Ska, Ska, _ [Bbm] [Ab] do the Ska,
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[Bbm] _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Dbm] _ [Ab] _
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_ [Bbm] _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ [Dbm] _ [Ab] _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _
[Ab] _ _ [Bbm] _ [Eb] [Ab] Not everybody [Dbm] can do the [Ab] Ska,
But everybody can do the Ska,
It's [Eb] a new dance [Ab] you can't resist.
Ska, Ska, Ska, [Eb] _
[Ab] Jamaica,
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Ab] Now everybody [Dbm] can [Ab] do the Ska,
It's a new dance that goes like this.
Now, bow your head, [Bbm] _
[Eb] [Ab] swing your arms, [Bbm] _ [Eb] [Ab] shake your hips, [Bbm] _
[Eb] [Ab] now do a dip.
[Eb] _ [Ab] Ska, Ska, [Eb] Ska, _ [Ab] Jamaica,
Ska, [Bbm] _ [Eb] _ [Ab] Ska, [Bbm] _
Ska, [Ab] Jamaica,
Ska, Ska, _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _
[Bbm] Ska, Ska, [Eb] Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Get [Ab] em probe!
_ [Bbm] _ [Eb] _ [Ab] [E] Yes, _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] this is Ska, Original and Indigenous.
[E] The music of guitar, [B] saxophones, trumpets, [A] bass and drums.
[E] These instruments are playing a monotonic, grass root rhythm.
This beat has taken Jamaica by storm and is swiftly spreading to other [A] parts of the world.
Now, what is the [E] authentic style of this new dance craze?
[B]
Let's take a [A] look-see, shall we?
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
There are four basic steps to the ska.
The first is to keep the beat with the [A] upper half of the body,
bowing forward with a straight back [E] and a slight bend in both knees.
[Abm] At the first bow, the [Gbm] arms extend to the sides.
[E] At the second bow, the arms cross in front.
The body straightens up in between the change of arms from one position to the other.
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_ _ [E] Basic step number two is practically the same as step [Abm] number one,
but with the [A] addition of a side step.
[E] First to the right by moving the right leg on the extension of the arms,
then bringing up the left leg on the closing of the arms.
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_ Step number [E] three is once again very similar, only [B] the arms [Bb] change.
[A] First right, then left, [E] swing up and down in front of the body,
finishing with the body beat when the right arm is in the air,
and then when the left arm is in the air.
The arms are to be [A] very relaxed, and then swung on either side of the [E] legs or between the legs.
These [B] basic steps may be done face to [D] face or side by side [E] with your partner. _ _ _ _
_ Finally, our fourth basic step.
Now, this is perhaps the most energetic [A] of all the basic steps.
It's being done [E] by two members of the band, and it's called rowing.
[B] A similar [Bm] action to rowing [D] a boat.
It is either done [E] facing your partner or beside your partner.
The first move is to reach out with the arms,
keeping both back and legs perfectly straight to form an angle at the [A] waist.
Then a pullback, throwing backwards [E] the upper half of the body from the knees up.
[B]
Ka [A] is as easy as that.
[E] How about us joining a regular ska session? _ _
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