Johnny Was Chords by Bob Marley, Guru

And the unity that must have to start now, because I mean how long would we have to suffer
_ to just learn these things that we must be [D] united.
_ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ That's [D] right.
_ Truth, we're involved in a struggle.
[C#m]
So what we gonna do?
_ _ _ [F#m] _
We [C#m] gotta make it right for our [F#m] people, _ _ [C#]
for our [Bm] forefathers, you know.
_ _ _ _ [C#m]
That's right.
[E] _ For the seeds.
[Bm] We must be united.
_ _ _ [C#m]
We must be united.
Fairly to warriors.
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [D] I saw [C#m]
the woman _ [B] cry, _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
[E] wondering [F#m] _ _ how can she work it out. _ _ _ _ _
_ Now [D] she knows [C#m]
that the wages [E] of sin is [Bm]
death.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C#m] Gift of [F#m] God is _ _ life.
_ _ _ She _ [Bm] cried, _ _ _ [A] _ oh, _ [Bm] _
_ oh, _ [C#m] _ oh, [Bm] _
_ _ [C#m] Johnny was a good [Bm] man.
_ _ _ _ [C#m] Oh, [Bm] oh, oh, [A] Johnny was a good, [Bm] good, good, good, [C#m] good, good, [Bm] good, good, good, [A] good man.
_ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ He cried.
[F#m] Any attempt to change my stance, son, would be futile.
Now things for you can never get easier.
Roo-Roo-Cha, supreme color scheme.
Why brothers die for dirty cream?
Yet worthy dreams may be obtained by worthy beings.
[D] Homicide [C#m] statistics, obituary [E] columns, numerous names listed, [D]
different violent types of behavior depicted.
They murdered [C#m] my brethren.
He was a good man, [A] protected his fam.
We all respected [F#m] this man.
[Bm] Still his life [Em] got held up like liquor stores or [D] old school jams.
What goes around [C#m]
resurfaces.
[A#] Now is it worth it, kid?
Do you really want to get out the [D#m] game?
I know you're [D] nervous, kid.
Ah, you're caught [C#m] up like my boy, Bokeem, in a flick.
[D#] Plus we know [A] reality's much more worse and [B] much more sick.
Your [E] cerebral eye probe, vocal [D] canvass, your earlobes destroying all [E] microbes.
The ill dynamic _ _ psychoanalyst.
[Bm] So understand that this [D] beautiful world as we [C#m] know it is definitely at risk.
[A] Righteous soldiers profess to be triumphant [B] in battle.
[E] Loud cry from the cell when many [F#] cages rattle.
Fire radiates heat, [D#m]
ice radiates cold.
I radiate thoughts [C#] and ideas, all things within [A] my control.
Some men [Bm] travel down [C#m] twisted roads and innocent lives belong.
[Bm]
May Jah bless [A] his soul.
_ _ [Bm] Yet I _ know.
[C#m] _ Ah, _ [Bm] _
_ _ [A] never did this thing go [Bm] _
_ wrong.
_ [C#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [A] Sonny was a good man.
[Bm]
Yet a woman's [C#m] end of care.
_ [Bm] _
_ _ [A] He cried.
_ _ [Bm] This was the [C#m] time she [Bm] paid. _
_ _ [A] Oh, _ _ [Bm] a _ woman's [C#m] end of _ [Bm] care.
This [A] was the time [Bm] she paid.
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ Just [Gm] like [G] this, my [D] baby.
_ _ [C#m] Word is Barney [E] was a good man.
_ _ [D] So was my man Ben.
_ _ _ [C#m] Rest in peace, Ben.
_ _ [F#m] So was my man Pac.
[E] _ _ Rest in peace, Pac. _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m]
So were so many other [E] brothers.
_ [D] Too numerous to _ mention.
_ _ _ [G#m] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ Time is _ _ _ now. _ _ _ _
[F#] For us to [D] fight _ for what [C#m] is ours.
_ _ [E] Rightfully so.
[Bm] _
Had to put the [D] Bible aside from the _ [C#m]
beginning.
_ So [A] shall _ it be.
So shall [Bm] it be.
So [C#m] shall it be. _