Tonalidad: G major•
Verse 1
G
Am
G
If you hungry,
Am
you is a boy (yes!)
If you and your woman hungry,
boy (yes!)
Em
And if you and your woman
and your pickney
Am
G
hungry, you is a piece of. mmm, mmm
Woke up and look at poverty
Am
G
this morning
Said to poverty,
Am
"you can't stay inna me
yard" (come out!)
G
So me tek up me cutlass and
start to do some
Am
farming
G
While some man lef' dem
country from early
Am
this morning, and
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
in their back yard
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
in their back yard
Dem nuh want a job
G
Poverty knocking at the
Am
door in their back yard
Let me remind you
G
Poverty knocking at their door
Am
in their back yard
Hear me!
G
Soon and very soon the
Am
red sun will be rising
G
It gone to the West,
Am
coming forward from the
East
G
And along with that,
Mr. Hungry with a long
Am
knife will be following
G
And always him and him
Am
bound to get a stab
Don't you hear me when I say?
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
in their back yard
Can't you hear me when I say?
G
Poverty knocking at the
Am
door in their back yard
Not even a pound of sugar
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
Dm
in their back yard
Am
Don't you hear me when I say?
G
Poverty knocking at the door in their back
Am
G
yard
Am
G
Em
Am
D
Am
G
(.)
Some a dem run away an'
Am
leave their country
G
(mi nah go back!)
Claiming that they can't
Am
find nothing to do
G
They refuse from their
grandfather - do the
Am
farming
G
And tek up a gun,
Am
just want some quick money
G
But dust to dust and ash to ash,
Am
life get funny
G
An' you gone down ah??,
down in a piece of old
G
Poverty knocking at the
Am
door in their back yard
Hear me when I say
G
Poverty knocking at the
Am
door in their back yard
No mentality
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
in their back yard
Where is your mentality?
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
in their back yard
G
"You nuh see after me
sharpen my cutlass
Am
And go build up my garden
G
I don't want go work for a man
D
G
Em
G
for a farthing
Am
G
Because my heart will harden"
Wake up and look at poverty early
Am
this morning
(come outside!)
G
Saying to him you just
can't stay inna Rasta
Am
yard (you nuh hear?)
G
So me tek up me 'lass and
then mi start to do
Am
some farming
G
Fi mek mi name nuh go fi
Am
thief and gone abroad
G
For poverty knocking at
the door in their back
Am
yard
All because dem lazy
G
Poverty knocking at the door
Am
in their back yard??
G
Poverty knocking at the
Am
door in their back yard
Dm
Am
Run away and leave them, Dread!
G
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