Hold On Chords by Lucky Dube

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_ _ _ [Ab] _ I knew [Eb] _
_ exactly [Db] what you were [Eb] going _ through.
[Ab] It's just that I didn't [Eb]
have the right [Db] to discuss [Eb] your problems.
_ [Ab] I saw [Eb] you struggling [Db] for our _ _ [Eb] _
education.
_ [Ab] I saw [Eb] you struggling [Db] to get us close.
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_ _ [Ab] Mama, this [Eb] man you got married [Db] to, is [Eb] dead or alive.
[Ab] _ _ Over [Eb]
the years I [Db] asked myself [Eb] many questions.
_ [Ab] If he [Eb] was still dead, _ [Db] was I [Eb] _
adopted?
Mama, [Ab] _ I know _ this is [Db] difficult for [Eb] you.
But [Ab] hold on, _ I will be home at _ [Db] night.
_ _ [Eb]
Hold _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb]
on, [Ab] _ [Db] just a little bit longer.
[Eb] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Db] Just a little bit [Eb] longer now.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] Hold on, _ [Db] just a little bit [Eb] longer now.
_ [Ab] Hold _ _ [Eb]
on, _ [Abm] just a [Db] little bit [Ab] [Eb] longer now.
_ [Ab] _ You [Eb] were a _ _ [Db] laughingstock in the [Eb] _
community.
_ [Ab] _ The [Eb] brass didn't rhyme, [Ab] making _ news [Eb] out of you, Mama.
_ [Ab] _ Now is the _
[Eb] time to [Db] show them _ [Eb]
all that.
[Ab] _ Who laughs last, laughs [Db] the best, [Eb] that's the way it is.
[Ab] Who laughs last, laughs [Db] the best, that's the [Eb] way it is.
[Ab] _ _ _ Hold [Eb]
on, [Ab] _ [Db] just a little bit [Eb] longer now.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] Hold on, _ [Db] just a little bit [Eb] longer now.
_ [Ab] Hold _ _ [Eb]
on, [Ab] _ just a [Db] little bit [Ab] longer [Eb] now.
_ [Ab] _ Hold _ [Eb] _
on, just [Db] a little bit [Eb] longer now.
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ I know _ [F] it's [Db] easy for [Ab] you, Mama.
_ I'm just being brutal to love [Db] her.
[Fm] Now that [Eb] I'm a grown up, Mama.
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