Chords for Gregory Isaacs & U-Brown - The Border 12" 1977

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ If I could [G] reach the border, _ _ [Am] _ _ then I would [G] step across.
_ _ [Am] _ So please take me [G] to the border, _ _ [Am] _ _ no matter [G] what's the cost,
cause I'm leaving [Am] it.
I'm a leaving out [G] of Babylon,
leaving [Am] out,
I'm a leaving out [G] of Rome,
_ leaving [Am] out of Rome,
I'm a leaving out [G] of Israel.
_ _ [Am] This place could never be [G] our home,
say we want, we want, [Am] go home.
Say we want, we want, [G] go home.
Yes we want, we want, [Am] go home.
Say we want, we want, [G]
go home.
Where the milk and [Am] honey flow,
say we want, we want, [G] go home.
_ That's where we [Am] want to go,
say we want, we want, [G] go home.
Africa we want [Am] to go,
say we want, we want, [G] go home.
Where the milk and [Am] honey flow,
say we want, we want, [G] go home.
_ _ _ [Am] _ If I could [G] reach the border,
_ _ [Am] _ then I would step [G] across.
_ _ _ [Am] _ So please take me to [G] the border,
_ _ [Am] _ _ and I would [G] pay the cost,
cause I'm leaving [Am] it.
I'm a leaving [G] out of Babylon,
leaving [Am] out,
I'm a leaving out [G] _
_ _ [Am] of Rome,
leaving out of Rome,
[G] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ leaving [Am] out of Israel.
_ [G] _
_ Leaving out of Rome,
we want, we [Am] want, go home.
Say we want, we [G] want, go home.
You know we want, we [Am] _ want, go [G] _
home.
Leaving [Am] out of Rome,
Say we want, we [G] want, go home.
Got [Am] to step across,
say we want, we [G] want, go home.
We want, we [Am] want more.
Say we want, we [G] want more.
We want, we want, we [Am] want more.
Say we want, we [G] want more.
_ [Am] The live up's rising.
Say we want, we [G] want more.
What we [Am] want more.
Say we want, we [G] want more.
The can [Am] be gained.
Say we want, we [G] want more.
The can be made.
[Am] Say we want, we [D] want more.
_ [E] What we want more.
_ _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
No more will I [G] roam.
No, no, no, no more will I roam in a [Am] Babylon.
[E] So black people you gotta understand in a time [G] like this you gotta change up your planetarium.
_ [Am] _
_ If I could reach the border.
[G] I would live a little [Am] bit better.
_ _ [G] I would live a much longer every minute of the hour.
Some [Am] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
Some [N] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
When I tell [A] you sing a black people come make we stupid to the roll.
[G] We say we leave King Pharaoh [G] on his throne.
Some [Am] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
Some [G] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
When I tell you [Am] in a time [C] like this you gotta watch your soul.
I [D] say that what about me have a natural level being tough.
[A] We say roll the river Jordan [E] roll.
Some [G] say we say roll the river [E] Jordan roll.
Until you [A] see the high [C] school of green is the color of a rainbow.
[G] All you got to do is keep on coming to me though.
[Am] You say you never know what gonna really teach you so.
[G] When I tell you about the sound will make you tippy-tummy.
Come on we say roll the river Jordan [E] roll.
Some say [G] we say roll the river Jordan roll.
[G] Meet me up a bank of a [E] beautiful river.
[G] Cause I'm a walk we stupid cross the border liquor water.
[Em] We say roll the river Jordan [E] roll.
We [G] say roll the river Jordan roll.
When I tell you [Em] about the sound will make you tippy-tummy.
Come on we say [G] _ _ _ [E] roll the river Jordan roll.
Some say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
Things [Am] is getting rougher and time is really getting tougher.
[G] We say that we stupid cross the border.
Some say we [Am] say roll the river Jordan roll.
Some say [G] we say roll the river Jordan roll. _
Blackfield you got to watch your soul.
Say that what about me have a natural level being tough.
[A] We say roll the river Jordan roll.
We say roll the [G] river Jordan roll.
Till they [A] got to follow [C] through me don't let me really tell you so.
[G] The time like this you got to tippy-tummy.
Come on [A] we say roll [Em] the river Jordan roll.
Some [G] say we say roll the river [D] Jordan roll.
[G] Children [E] suffering from [D] hunger.
I say that mommy and daddy couldn't live without sugar.
[Am] We say roll the river Jordan roll.
Some [G] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
[Am] Black people you got to be cooler.
[G] And don't make yourself a goddamn fool.
Some say [Am] we say roll the river Jordan roll.
Some [G] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
When I say time like this you should never take no risks.
I see you got to relax and then the leak off your split.
[A] We say roll [C] the river Jordan roll.
Some [D] say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
Ain't no sound me [C] say this sound so good I would rock them sound.
This [B] sound so good I would rock them sound.
_ [Am] _
_ _ _ [G] No more without Rome.
[Am] _
_ _ _ No [G] more without Rome.
Me say we [E] lift King Pharoah and him golden [G] throne.
Granite, adrenaline, and steel for you so they come.
[Em] And me say roll the river [D] Jordan roll.
[G] Some say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
[A]
[E] Lift King Pharaoh and him Roman soldier.
[G] Because they really want a man to figure work up the [Am] Uber.
Me say roll the river Jordan roll.
[Abm] Some say we say roll the river [G] Jordan roll.
[A] Teaching [C] high brutality and say I must love vanity.
[G] Instead of five love and unity for black people.
I [Am] tell you me say roll the river Jordan roll.
[G] Some say we say roll the river Jordan roll.
[Am]
Meet me over bank over beautiful river.
[B] Me say me want to reach cross the [Bm] border.
Some say me say roll the river [E] Jordan roll.
[Gb] Some say me say roll the river Jordan roll.
[A]
[C] Roman soldier try to brutalize I.
But [D] trust to the public and the good I never control.
[A] Me say roll the river [C] Jordan roll.
[G] Some say me say roll the river Jordan roll.
[A]
1933 [E] say me hula pure [Ab] and pick up the things and get it off.
And that is no damn [Am] bluff.
Me say roll the river Jordan roll.
[D] Some say me say roll the river Jordan roll.
In a [A]
time like [C] this you got to wash your [G] soul.
Say what about the earth that [E] should never be in town.
Me say roll the river Jordan roll.
[G] Some say me say roll the [B] river Jordan roll.
[E] _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _