Chords for Bob Marley: So Much Things To Say - Part 1

_ _ _ _ _ IREH! _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A#] YAY!
Good [G#] evening [A#] Rastafari ladies, you know
[G#] As _ _ [Dm] I would say, [A#m] shall live itinerally
[F#] And there's a natural mystic blowing [N] through the air
_ When you perform in the [A] same building with people like that, do you feel any different from when you perform in Jamaica on your [Am] own?
_ Well right now, the difference in feelings, you know
Right now I'm gonna really feel no difference, I just wanna play good music and play good music
So I don't care which part of the music I play
Because it's not the people who are playing who are playing music, you know
What exactly is the point you want to get to in music?
Well the point is the fulfillment of revelation
_ And I'm a man who says my [G] work, to go out in the Babylon, to go and do [Am] what I do
But I find myself doing it and I can't stop it because greater power than the power I know of myself
Make I do it
[A]
There's a [D] natural mystic [G] blowing through the air
[Am] _ _
[A] If you listen [G] carefully now, you [Am] will hear _
_ _ This could be the [Dm] first [Am] trumpet
Might as well be the last
Now [G#] Bob, could we talk a little bit about you and how [A] you started out in the singing business?
[D] I know you started very young, [A] how did you start?
Started out crying
_ Right [D] from the start, eh?
Yeah, started [G] out crying, you know
[A] And then music becomes a part
[E] Our music is a part, I was a part, you know
[Dm] What I'm telling you, how it really started is really
[A] A thing where we really have to think about how it really started
Because I can't be ungrateful to Jah
_ [Dm] Because yesterday [E] was yesterday, you know
[Dm] So from the beginning, [F] Jah the creator, you know, the starting for the [Am] man to start
You know what I mean?
So we really have to think about from creation then
Alright, well, okay, let's get it down to this sort of terms now
[G] When did you first go in a [Am] studio?
Or somebody got you in a studio, or you went on a stage show or something, performing in public? _
_ About 1960, you [G] know
1960, 1959, 1960
[A] No, when, what is that?
You went in a studio to record?
No, I went to a stage show
Yes, yes, they used to have a little thing down at Queens there, you know
So one night I went [Am] there to sing a tune, and Winna Pound
And the man there told me I must start singing Right away?
Yeah, because they used to have a thing down at Darling Street [A] and Sark here on the back of the wall
[G] Some bredren who knew [G#] the rights but got brutalized by [B] just saying right things, you know what I mean?
Yeah, [G] yeah, yeah
_ _ [E] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ [G] You hit me with [D] music, [F] you hit me with [B] music now
This is Chains down [E] rock
Don't watch [G] that
Chains down rock
[C#] Big fish on [C] a sprat now
Chains down rock
You reap what you sow
[C#] Chains down rock
I'm only judge, I know
Chains down rock
I've [F#] never thrown my bat
[C#] Chains down rock
I'd give [C] the summer try
Chains down rock
I've never [F#] let the children cry
Chains [C#] down rock
All you got to tell Joshua [Am] Ruben
It's Kingston Crab
Ruben
It's Kingston Crab Ruben
It's Kingston [G#] Crab now Ruben
It's Kingston Crab Ruben
You know Bob, it seems to me you always seem to come back to [A] this situation when you talk
That [G#] you're always aware of the suffering
It seems to me that you keep coming right back to it all the time
Would you say you're a bitter [G] person or angry or you know
Well [E] I'm on the side of the earth today [G] Neville
And when I'm on the side of the earth I know [A] people live off of false pretence
The majority of them you know
[B] And I know I [G] don't have to suffer the [C#] way I always suffer
Not [C] because of material things
[F#] But in some way [C#] material things becomes [E] an object for me and I [B] to suffer
[F#] And through the people and the teaching that they get
And they want to come teach me the same [C#] teaching the whole world gets
[C] And we are showing them the truth today
And so they fight against the truth because they say [C#] well then because of this self pride [C] and respect
Because you're older than me I shouldn't come tell you [B] something
The way you should have known a long [C] long time ago
So you use this false pride and fight me because when I tell you [C#] about Rastafari
[F#] Through your long experience a [G#m] year from time ago about the teaching that you get
[A] You can't see this nothing in [D] a new wine this is creation you know
[C#] But you can't see something when they don't teach you [G#] you only have to see when they teach you
It's not anger and all of that but it's just truth you know
And then it [C#] has to bust out a man like River
Right right and your way to [G#] bust it out is in your music
That's the way it comes out
[G#] That's your expression So talk
_ [G] _ _ Alright listen now you talk about [D] material things right
But Bob quite frankly [A] I don't think you would fairly say [G] that right now you are a [A] sufferer
[E] In the sense of money
[C] _ _ [Am] Well if you check what money is then money don't make you suffer
And money don't make you don't suffer
But everything really rests in your mind you know because I dig this
I'm a farmer and I don't live with money
They could have never given you a penny I say
I have to live
_ But again I can play music and I do faith for the earth
So I play music and if money comes out of music
Money doesn't come out of music
[G] I don't mind directly
My heart really [A] works wide
I bleed blood to get money
[G#] For the thing is
[Gm] Celestia is the king of [Am] kings
But on earth no which guy on earth is rich like the king of kings
[A] So my father is the richest man on earth
So I [N] am a rich rich man
But I don't mind making [D] you suffer because
[Am] You know I don't mind making you suffer
Because material things make you suffer
Because [A#] just as I never [E] gave a man more than he can bear
That [G] means if someone tells me
Yes they never drink no tea and the other [Am] day they never drink no tea
Because I know if the man didn't want to drink tea he couldn't drink [F#] tea
So it's the mind [C] things you know
[G] It seems to me you put such a lot in your lyrics
Does it bother [Am] you that Jamaica people don't hear your [B] lyrics as well as they should?
Or you [D] think that they understand them and your message is getting across?
Well [Am] I _
[D] say many shall be called but [Am] only few chosen Right?
[Em] And then people have listened to the [Am] last of the trumpet
Which is not no trumpet to accomplish
Man of God talks and his imperial majesty
[D] Earth rightful ruler
_ [G] Emancipate yourselves from [Em] mental slavery
And [C] battle with [G] self skin free our [Am] minds
Have no fear for atomic [Em] energy
Because none of them [D] can stop the time
How [G] long shall they kill our [Em] prophets
While we stand aside [Am] and look
[G] Some say it's [B] just a part of it
We've got to fulfill [A] the book
Won't [G] you help to sing _
_ [C] These songs of freedom
[A] Because all I ever [Em] had
_ _ _ [G] Redemption songs _
[A] _ [G] Redemption songs
[C] Now Bob, a [G] lot of recording