Matilda Chords by Harry Belafonte

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_ _ _ _ _ Hey, I'm _ Matilda, _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ Matilda, _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ Matilda, she take me money and run [G] Venezuela _ once again.
Now _ [Cm] Matilda, _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ Matilda, _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money [Gm] and run Venezuela.
_ _ [Eb] Five hundred dollars, friends are lost. _
Woman [Ab] even sell me cat and horse.
Hey, [Bb] _ _ Matilda, she take me [Cm] money and run Venezuela.
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Everybody, _ _ [Bb] Matilda, _ sing a little [Ab] chorus.
_ Matilda, sing a little louder.
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.
_ [Bb]
Once again [Eb] now.
_ Matilda, going round the [Db] corner.
_ Matilda, sing a little [Bb] chorus.
_ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money and run Venezuela. _
Well, the money was to buy me house and land.
Then [Ab] she got a serious plan.
Hey, [Bb] _ _ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money and run Venezuela.
_ [C] _ Everybody, [Eb] _ _ _
Matilda.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Matilda, Matilda, [Eb] she take me money [Db] and run Venezuela.
[Gb] _ Once again [Ebm] now. _
[Bb] Matilda, going round the corner.
[Ab] _
_ Matilda, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.
_ [Bb] Well, the [Eb] money was just inside me bed.
Stuck up in [Ab] a pillow beneath [Db] the head.
[Cm] Don't you know?
_ _ _ [Eb] Matilda, [A] she buy me money. _ _ _ _
Everybody.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] Matilda, Matilda, [Db] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ Matilda, she [Cm] take me money and [Db] run Venezuela.
_ [A] _
Once again [Eb] now.
_ Matilda, going round the corner.
[Ab] _ _ Matilda, sing a little chorus.
[Bb] _ _ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money and [Db] run Venezuela.
_ [Gbm] Women over [Eb] 40.
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Matilda, _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] Matilda, Matilda, _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _
she take me money and run Venezuela.
_ _ [C] Everybody.
[Eb] _ _
[C] _ Matilda, [Eb] going round the [Db] corner.
_ [Cm] _ [Eb] Matilda, in [Ab] the little [Db] water.
_ [Bb] _ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money and [C] run Venezuela.
_ [Eb] Well, me friends [Bb] never to love [Eb] again. _
All me money [Ab] gone in vain.
Hey, [Bb] _ _ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money and [Cm] run Venezuela.
[Eb] _ _ _ Everybody.
_ _ Matilda, _
[Cm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] Matilda, _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Matilda, [Eb] she take me money and run Venezuela.
Sing [A] a little [Eb] softer. _ _
Matilda, _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
Matilda, [Db] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
Matilda, she take me money and [Db] run Venezuela.
_ _ Everybody.
[Eb] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] Matilda, Matilda, sing a little [Bb] chorus.
_ _ Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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