Chords for Before Afropunk, There Was Fishbone
Tempo:
65.15 bpm
Chords used:
F
C
Am
F#
D#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
You think they ready to sing, Dirty Walt?
Yeah, let's see.
You think they ready to sing, Chuck?
Let's get that [F#] sunshine shit going.
You gonna help me out now?
Come on, sit.
[C#] Everyday sunshine.
Everyday sunshine.
[D#] Back then, we'd get a lot [B] of guys playing that white boy music,
[E] and we really don't listen to that, you know, [F#m] and it's going too fast.
To finally get to a place where there [D#m] is now a [E] sea of all the [F#] rainbows of people
with a lot of black kids there, we're at the point of progress.
I hear from a lot of people of color [C#] say,
you guys made it okay for me to [G] feel like it was alright to be black and rock.
I hear that a [C] lot.
Brooklyn's Afro-Punk Music Festival was born in 2005 for alternative black culture.
But before there was a space for celebration,
a strong handful of bands were paving the way, like the band Fishbone.
[G#] My name is [C] Angelo Moore, frontman of Fishbone.
[Cm] I'm John Norwood Fisher, bassist for Fishbone.
[D] Fishbone was formed [F#] in the late 70s, [D#] and it was Los Angeles, 1978.
There weren't too many [B] bands that looked like this,
because an all-black band playing [D#] punk rock and ska,
you're probably counting on [F#] one hand.
[C] The crazy part about it was, while we were starting to play a lot of [F] rock and roll,
we really weren't embraced too much by the black public.
We were [C] embraced a lot by the white public,
so we'd get a lot of [F] white kids coming to the show.
[Am] Black people ain't supposed to play [F] rock.
That's not the stereotype.
[C] Black people are supposed to play [F] R&B and funk and [Am] soul.
If you got dreadlocks, you're [F] supposed to be playing reggae.
And [C] if you put on a suit and tie, you play [F] jazz.
You can play jazz, right?
[Am] [F] Afro-punk is a celebration [C] of rock and [F] roll, black music [Am] for everyone.
[F] [C] It's incredible, [F] and it draws in [Am] youth of color
to [F] say this is for you in [C] a larger way than we [F] did.
You can be [Am] the beautiful black [F] youth and rock.
[C] [F] [C] [B]
Yeah, let's see.
You think they ready to sing, Chuck?
Let's get that [F#] sunshine shit going.
You gonna help me out now?
Come on, sit.
[C#] Everyday sunshine.
Everyday sunshine.
[D#] Back then, we'd get a lot [B] of guys playing that white boy music,
[E] and we really don't listen to that, you know, [F#m] and it's going too fast.
To finally get to a place where there [D#m] is now a [E] sea of all the [F#] rainbows of people
with a lot of black kids there, we're at the point of progress.
I hear from a lot of people of color [C#] say,
you guys made it okay for me to [G] feel like it was alright to be black and rock.
I hear that a [C] lot.
Brooklyn's Afro-Punk Music Festival was born in 2005 for alternative black culture.
But before there was a space for celebration,
a strong handful of bands were paving the way, like the band Fishbone.
[G#] My name is [C] Angelo Moore, frontman of Fishbone.
[Cm] I'm John Norwood Fisher, bassist for Fishbone.
[D] Fishbone was formed [F#] in the late 70s, [D#] and it was Los Angeles, 1978.
There weren't too many [B] bands that looked like this,
because an all-black band playing [D#] punk rock and ska,
you're probably counting on [F#] one hand.
[C] The crazy part about it was, while we were starting to play a lot of [F] rock and roll,
we really weren't embraced too much by the black public.
We were [C] embraced a lot by the white public,
so we'd get a lot of [F] white kids coming to the show.
[Am] Black people ain't supposed to play [F] rock.
That's not the stereotype.
[C] Black people are supposed to play [F] R&B and funk and [Am] soul.
If you got dreadlocks, you're [F] supposed to be playing reggae.
And [C] if you put on a suit and tie, you play [F] jazz.
You can play jazz, right?
[Am] [F] Afro-punk is a celebration [C] of rock and [F] roll, black music [Am] for everyone.
[F] [C] It's incredible, [F] and it draws in [Am] youth of color
to [F] say this is for you in [C] a larger way than we [F] did.
You can be [Am] the beautiful black [F] youth and rock.
[C] [F] [C] [B]
Key:
F
C
Am
F#
D#
F
C
Am
You think they ready to sing, Dirty Walt?
Yeah, let's see.
You think they ready to sing, Chuck?
Let's get that [F#] sunshine shit going.
You gonna help me out now?
Come on, sit.
[C#] Everyday sunshine.
Everyday sunshine.
[D#] Back then, we'd get a lot [B] of guys playing that white boy music,
[E] and we really don't listen to that, you know, [F#m] and it's going too fast.
To finally get to a place where there [D#m] is now a [E] sea of all the [F#] rainbows of people
with a lot of black kids there, we're at the point of progress.
I hear from a lot of people of color [C#] say,
you guys made it okay for me to [G] feel like it was alright to be black and rock.
I hear that a [C] lot.
Brooklyn's Afro-Punk Music Festival was born in 2005 for alternative black culture. _
But before there was a space for celebration,
a strong handful of bands were paving the way, like the band Fishbone.
[G#] My name is [C] Angelo Moore, frontman of Fishbone.
[Cm] _ I'm John Norwood Fisher, bassist for Fishbone.
[D] Fishbone was formed [F#] in the late 70s, [D#] and it was Los Angeles, 1978.
There weren't too many [B] bands that looked like this,
because an all-black band playing [D#] punk rock and ska,
you're probably counting on [F#] one hand. _ _ _
_ [C] The crazy part about it was, while we were starting to play a lot of [F] rock and roll,
we really weren't embraced too much by the black public.
We were [C] embraced a lot by the white public,
so we'd get a lot of [F] white kids coming to the show.
[Am] Black people ain't supposed to play [F] rock.
That's not the stereotype.
[C] Black people are supposed to play [F] R&B and funk and [Am] soul.
If you got dreadlocks, you're [F] supposed to be playing reggae.
And [C] if you put on a suit and tie, you play [F] jazz.
You can play jazz, right?
[Am] _ [F] Afro-punk is a celebration [C] of rock and [F] roll, black music [Am] for everyone.
_ [F] _ _ [C] It's incredible, [F] and it draws in [Am] youth of color
to [F] say this is for you in [C] a larger way than we [F] did.
You can be [Am] the beautiful black [F] youth and rock.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Yeah, let's see.
You think they ready to sing, Chuck?
Let's get that [F#] sunshine shit going.
You gonna help me out now?
Come on, sit.
[C#] Everyday sunshine.
Everyday sunshine.
[D#] Back then, we'd get a lot [B] of guys playing that white boy music,
[E] and we really don't listen to that, you know, [F#m] and it's going too fast.
To finally get to a place where there [D#m] is now a [E] sea of all the [F#] rainbows of people
with a lot of black kids there, we're at the point of progress.
I hear from a lot of people of color [C#] say,
you guys made it okay for me to [G] feel like it was alright to be black and rock.
I hear that a [C] lot.
Brooklyn's Afro-Punk Music Festival was born in 2005 for alternative black culture. _
But before there was a space for celebration,
a strong handful of bands were paving the way, like the band Fishbone.
[G#] My name is [C] Angelo Moore, frontman of Fishbone.
[Cm] _ I'm John Norwood Fisher, bassist for Fishbone.
[D] Fishbone was formed [F#] in the late 70s, [D#] and it was Los Angeles, 1978.
There weren't too many [B] bands that looked like this,
because an all-black band playing [D#] punk rock and ska,
you're probably counting on [F#] one hand. _ _ _
_ [C] The crazy part about it was, while we were starting to play a lot of [F] rock and roll,
we really weren't embraced too much by the black public.
We were [C] embraced a lot by the white public,
so we'd get a lot of [F] white kids coming to the show.
[Am] Black people ain't supposed to play [F] rock.
That's not the stereotype.
[C] Black people are supposed to play [F] R&B and funk and [Am] soul.
If you got dreadlocks, you're [F] supposed to be playing reggae.
And [C] if you put on a suit and tie, you play [F] jazz.
You can play jazz, right?
[Am] _ [F] Afro-punk is a celebration [C] of rock and [F] roll, black music [Am] for everyone.
_ [F] _ _ [C] It's incredible, [F] and it draws in [Am] youth of color
to [F] say this is for you in [C] a larger way than we [F] did.
You can be [Am] the beautiful black [F] youth and rock.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _