Chords for Damian Marley - Gunman World - Rootsman Riddim (Overstand Entertainment) January 2014
Tempo:
83.6 bpm
Chords used:
Dm
Am
C
F
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Dm] Two [F] sides to a [Dm] coin, and one must choose the side they join, [Am] you know?
Brother man, yeah.
[Dm] Meanwhile [Am] one man means [Dm] another man poison.
Man can't reveal [Am] what they must to [C] survive, ain't it?
Hear me [Am] now?
[Dm] In a gunman world, any nighting clock he not work.
[Am] Morrow's lot had the toolbox full, the magazine [C] inna the two-block pool.
And he's watching [Dm] as the days go by, and he's counting as his peers all die.
Sleeping with the [Am] rifle cross his chest, and so he never [C] gets a good night's rest.
And then he's cranky [F] in the morning [D] times, and [C] more victims have to lose their lives.
[G] The community [F] a kiss and twirl, to sing that there wasn't in a gunman world.
[Dm] In a gunman life, he might not come home from work one night.
So every minute, Mata [Am] quick knows advice, from his big-time baby mother and child.
That he won't [Dm] win every game he plays, so she know he'll meet his end one day.
Some juvenile will [Am] have to earn his strife, and have to take another gunman's life.
But if a boxed [Dm] up man names his price, and how ironic if him dead from night.
The mouth a bullet [Am] where him put from wall, drop the scripts until end is roll.
[Dm] So tell me is it worth it all, if one done rise then a next must fall.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
Well [Dm] in a gunman world, life [G] is so stressful, [Dm] back to school time come.
Cause [Am] when a gunman work, if he [G] is successful, and the job is well done.
[Dm] Then there will be a non-stop crime, if no one to fill out a blank line.
Done public [Am] a fi hear and dey, inform a get a cook off quay.
Does he get [Dm] nervous just like you and I, watching out if the police pass by.
Cause when the day you [Am] hear a gunman fail, then it's either dead or start jail.
What will it cost [Dm] to make a gunman rich, how many lives before a gunman switch.
The truth no warn [Am] dey you dem stop ignore, say the majority a gunman poor.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
And when [Dm] a gunman makes rice, I wonder what goes to a gunman's mind.
And does [Am] a gunman think twice, before him take another someone's [Dm] life.
I wonder what it is a gunman say, [G] to the father when a gunman pray.
Does he kiss [F] his kids to bed at night, [N] making sure the blanket tuck just right.
[Dm] Nothing no scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say no, [Am]
what could a [Dm] scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say [Am] no, [Dm] then you tell me is it worth it all, if one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll [Dm] call.
Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one [Am] ball.
Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [Am]
[Dm] [Am] [Dm]
[Am] [F] [C]
Brother man, yeah.
[Dm] Meanwhile [Am] one man means [Dm] another man poison.
Man can't reveal [Am] what they must to [C] survive, ain't it?
Hear me [Am] now?
[Dm] In a gunman world, any nighting clock he not work.
[Am] Morrow's lot had the toolbox full, the magazine [C] inna the two-block pool.
And he's watching [Dm] as the days go by, and he's counting as his peers all die.
Sleeping with the [Am] rifle cross his chest, and so he never [C] gets a good night's rest.
And then he's cranky [F] in the morning [D] times, and [C] more victims have to lose their lives.
[G] The community [F] a kiss and twirl, to sing that there wasn't in a gunman world.
[Dm] In a gunman life, he might not come home from work one night.
So every minute, Mata [Am] quick knows advice, from his big-time baby mother and child.
That he won't [Dm] win every game he plays, so she know he'll meet his end one day.
Some juvenile will [Am] have to earn his strife, and have to take another gunman's life.
But if a boxed [Dm] up man names his price, and how ironic if him dead from night.
The mouth a bullet [Am] where him put from wall, drop the scripts until end is roll.
[Dm] So tell me is it worth it all, if one done rise then a next must fall.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
Well [Dm] in a gunman world, life [G] is so stressful, [Dm] back to school time come.
Cause [Am] when a gunman work, if he [G] is successful, and the job is well done.
[Dm] Then there will be a non-stop crime, if no one to fill out a blank line.
Done public [Am] a fi hear and dey, inform a get a cook off quay.
Does he get [Dm] nervous just like you and I, watching out if the police pass by.
Cause when the day you [Am] hear a gunman fail, then it's either dead or start jail.
What will it cost [Dm] to make a gunman rich, how many lives before a gunman switch.
The truth no warn [Am] dey you dem stop ignore, say the majority a gunman poor.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
And when [Dm] a gunman makes rice, I wonder what goes to a gunman's mind.
And does [Am] a gunman think twice, before him take another someone's [Dm] life.
I wonder what it is a gunman say, [G] to the father when a gunman pray.
Does he kiss [F] his kids to bed at night, [N] making sure the blanket tuck just right.
[Dm] Nothing no scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say no, [Am]
what could a [Dm] scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say [Am] no, [Dm] then you tell me is it worth it all, if one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll [Dm] call.
Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one [Am] ball.
Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [Am]
[Dm] [Am] [Dm]
[Am] [F] [C]
Key:
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Am
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Dm
Am
C
[Dm] _ _ Two [F] sides to a [Dm] coin, and one must choose the side they join, [Am] you know?
Brother man, _ _ yeah.
[Dm] Meanwhile [Am] one man means [Dm] another man poison. _
Man can't reveal [Am] what they must to [C] survive, ain't it?
Hear me [Am] now?
_ [Dm] In a gunman world, any nighting clock he not work.
[Am] Morrow's lot had the toolbox full, the magazine [C] inna the two-block pool.
And he's watching [Dm] as the days go by, and he's counting as his peers all die.
Sleeping with the [Am] rifle cross his chest, and so he never [C] gets a good night's rest.
And then he's cranky [F] in the morning [D] times, and [C] more victims have to lose their lives.
[G] The community [F] a kiss and twirl, to sing that there wasn't in a gunman world.
_ [Dm] In a gunman life, he might not come home from work one night.
So every minute, Mata [Am] quick knows advice, from his big-time baby mother and child.
That he won't [Dm] win every game he plays, so she know he'll meet his end one day.
Some juvenile will [Am] have to earn his strife, and have to take another gunman's life.
But if a boxed [Dm] up man names his price, and how ironic if him dead from night.
The mouth a bullet [Am] where him put from wall, drop the scripts until end is roll.
[Dm] So tell me is it worth it all, if one done rise then a next must fall.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
Well [Dm] in a gunman world, life [G] is so stressful, [Dm] back to school time come.
Cause [Am] when a gunman work, if he [G] is successful, and the job is well done.
[Dm] Then there will be a non-stop crime, if no one to fill out a blank line.
Done public [Am] a fi hear and dey, inform a get a cook off quay.
Does he get [Dm] nervous just like you and I, watching out if the police pass by.
Cause when the day you [Am] hear a gunman fail, then it's either dead or start jail.
What will it cost [Dm] to make a gunman rich, how many lives before a gunman switch.
The truth no warn [Am] dey you dem stop ignore, say the majority a gunman poor.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
And when [Dm] a gunman makes rice, I wonder what goes to a gunman's mind.
And does [Am] a gunman think twice, before him take another someone's [Dm] life.
I wonder what it is a gunman say, [G] to the father when a gunman pray.
Does he kiss [F] his kids to bed at night, [N] making sure the blanket tuck just right.
[Dm] Nothing no scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say no, [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
what could a [Dm] scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say [Am] no, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] then you tell me is it worth it all, if one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll [Dm] call.
Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one [Am] ball.
Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
[Dm] _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ _
Brother man, _ _ yeah.
[Dm] Meanwhile [Am] one man means [Dm] another man poison. _
Man can't reveal [Am] what they must to [C] survive, ain't it?
Hear me [Am] now?
_ [Dm] In a gunman world, any nighting clock he not work.
[Am] Morrow's lot had the toolbox full, the magazine [C] inna the two-block pool.
And he's watching [Dm] as the days go by, and he's counting as his peers all die.
Sleeping with the [Am] rifle cross his chest, and so he never [C] gets a good night's rest.
And then he's cranky [F] in the morning [D] times, and [C] more victims have to lose their lives.
[G] The community [F] a kiss and twirl, to sing that there wasn't in a gunman world.
_ [Dm] In a gunman life, he might not come home from work one night.
So every minute, Mata [Am] quick knows advice, from his big-time baby mother and child.
That he won't [Dm] win every game he plays, so she know he'll meet his end one day.
Some juvenile will [Am] have to earn his strife, and have to take another gunman's life.
But if a boxed [Dm] up man names his price, and how ironic if him dead from night.
The mouth a bullet [Am] where him put from wall, drop the scripts until end is roll.
[Dm] So tell me is it worth it all, if one done rise then a next must fall.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
Well [Dm] in a gunman world, life [G] is so stressful, [Dm] back to school time come.
Cause [Am] when a gunman work, if he [G] is successful, and the job is well done.
[Dm] Then there will be a non-stop crime, if no one to fill out a blank line.
Done public [Am] a fi hear and dey, inform a get a cook off quay.
Does he get [Dm] nervous just like you and I, watching out if the police pass by.
Cause when the day you [Am] hear a gunman fail, then it's either dead or start jail.
What will it cost [Dm] to make a gunman rich, how many lives before a gunman switch.
The truth no warn [Am] dey you dem stop ignore, say the majority a gunman poor.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll call.
[Dm] Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one ball.
[Am] Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
And when [Dm] a gunman makes rice, I wonder what goes to a gunman's mind.
And does [Am] a gunman think twice, before him take another someone's [Dm] life.
I wonder what it is a gunman say, [G] to the father when a gunman pray.
Does he kiss [F] his kids to bed at night, [N] making sure the blanket tuck just right.
[Dm] Nothing no scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say no, [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
what could a [Dm] scary like a gunman vice, when people beg a gunman think twice.
And him say [Am] no, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] then you tell me is it worth it all, if one down rise then a next one [Am] fall.
Tell me is it worth it all, those [C] sleepless nights and virtual roll [Dm] call.
Tell me is it worth it all, one child smile while a next one [Am] ball.
Tell me is it worth it, is it worth it, is it [C] worth it all.
[Dm] _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ _
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