Chords for Alton Ellis Tribute by Christopher Ellis

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_ _ _ _ I'm trying to mimic [D] my dad.
But listen, we ain't gonna talk no [B] more.
We're gonna go straight to it. _ _
[C#m] _ _ No, no, no, [D#m] no, so they know it all.
[C#m] _ _ _ [B] Better get ready.
Come [C#m] do rock steady.
_ _ [D#m] He's_
You've got to do this [C#m] new dance.
Hope that you're ready.
[B] _ You've got to do it [C#m] just like Uncle Alton.
[D#] If you don't know [C#m] _ it.
_ [B] As I rise in the [C#m] morning.
I give my thanks and praise.
[D#m] From so far I hear my daddy calling.
[C#m] And he keeps some sound boys at bay.
[B] I have made the greatest choice in my [C#m] life.
That I know I won't regret.
[D#m] Alton is the greatest man [C#m] you will ever hear.
He's [B] always there.
Wherever [C#m] I go.
The power [B] I feel.
Now that's how [C#m] I know.
He, he is always [E] there.
[B] Wherever [C#m] I go.
Spring, summer, winter [D#m] or fall.
I'm mashing [C#m] up that soul. Oh yeah.
_ [B] You think I love you.
[C#m] For just one thing.
[D#m] To you my love it [C#m] may.
Be the way it seems.
[B] But I love the way.
[C#m] You carry yourself.
[D#m] I even love you, I love you, I love you, I [C#m] love you, I love you all.
_ [B] _ _ _
[C#m] Huh.
_ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _
[C#m] Listen.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[C#m] Huh. Huh.
_ _ [D#m] _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ I've [B] lost that love, that love, that love.
[C#m] Before.
I said God [D#m] man and I close and I close and I close.
[C#m] The door.
And you say [B] try.
Once more.
[C#m] _ _ They [D#m] know yeah, yes, yes, yes.
They [C#m] know yeah, yeah, yeah.
[B] _ When you turn [C#m] and you walk through that door.
[D#m] _ It [C#m] hurts me so.
Now.
[B] _ Said it [C#m] hurts me so.
It [D#m] hurts me, it hurts me so.
[C#m] Oh.
Listen to me.
[B] _ _ She didn't [C#m] button I, I.
[D#m] _ _ As I [C#m] packed my bags to leave.
[B] _ I thought she would [C#m] start to cry.
_ _ [D#m] _ I stood around my [C#m] room and we.
_ I said I [B] know you're ready.
Come [C#m] to rock steady.
My [D#m] ease.
You've got to do this [C#m] new dance.
Now that you're ready.
[B] _ You've got to do it [C#m] just like.
Uncle.
[D#] Now that you know. _ _
[C#m] _ This.
_ [B] Has a rise in the morning.
[C#m] I give your thanks and praise.
[D#m] From so far.
I can call.
[C#m] Keep the sound boys at bay.
[B] I've been made the greatest choice in my [C#m] life that I know.
I won't be.
_ [D#m] I'll attend as a great.
[C#m] You ever hear.
It's always [B] _ there. _
[C#m] _ The power.
[D#m] _ _ That's how [C#m] I know.
He is.
He's always.
[A#] _ Where ever.
[C#m] Spring summer winter.
[D#m] He _ [C#] did every day.
I didn't get the right.
You know I'm saying.
_ [G#] _ _
Get the right.
No. _ _ _ _ _
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