Chords for Mighty Sparrow - Salt Fish

Tempo:
155.2 bpm
Chords used:

C

Dm

Am

G

F

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Mighty Sparrow - Salt Fish chords
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Salfish Salfish
[C] I'm
[Dm] [C] a Nazmi
[B] [C]
[Bb] Who's making that for me?
[D] [B] [C]
What's your favourite song?
[Em] I don't [C]
100%  ➙  155BPM
C
3211
Dm
2311
Am
2311
G
2131
F
134211111
C
3211
Dm
2311
Am
2311
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_ _ _ Salfish _ Salfish
_ [C] _ _ I'm _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] a Nazmi _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ Who's making that for me?
_ _ Salfish _ _ _
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ What's your favourite song?
[D] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] I don't [C] _ _
know
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ I don't know
I don't _ _ know
I [A] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] don't know
I don't _ _ [Em] know [C] No _ _ _ _ _
Salfish is known
_ _ by many different names
_ _ _ in many different lands _ _ _ _ _ _
of the country
_ [B] that we're in [C] now _
_ supposedly
_ _ [F] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] intelligent _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ and a suffragette
_ _ _ _ [E] How [A] do your boys
Salfish [Bb] in England?
[C] _ _
_ In Australia
_ _ [D]
That [Am] is too drab of you
That is too [C] unromantic
_ I don't like [F] it at all
That [C] _ _ is why I like Venezuela
_ _ _ How do they call it in [D]
Venezuela?
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Am] It sounds like you're [F] saying
_ [C] Bacanal
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [C] Now remember
_ here in Venezuela
_ _ [B]
I [C] started picking the country
[G] _ [C] finding your own memory
_ [C] and here comes the girls
who walk up to you _ _ _
Say no
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] Look at the Bacanal _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] When you love [C] me
I have [Cm] to respond _ Give [C] it _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And then the girls
say to me
[Am] _ _ _
Senor
_ [C] _ _ _ Mucho [B] dinero?
_ [C] _ _ Mucho Bacanal _
_ Oh _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ Venezuela is a nice place _
So you live in Venezuela
and you're coming up the islands
_ _ You pass Venezuela _
_ You pass Bacanal
_ You pass Bacanal You pass
_ _ _ _ Barreiro
And _ _ _ you [Em] finish the same [Dm] way
in [C] _ _ _ _ _
the land of romance _ _ _
Jamaica
[D] _ [C] _ _ _ _ St.
[F] Lucia
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ Patinique
_ _ _ [C] _ _
_ Guadalupe
_ _ [Am] _ _
Missy
[D] _ _ [C] _ How do they call it there?
_ _ _ How do they call [Db] it in Guadalupe [D] La [C] _ _ _ [D] Mauie [C] _ Ah I'm _ shaking _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Of course we can go on and on
with several different names
in [F] several different countries
[C] but we better stick to that [C] one
generic name that we all know and love _ Salfish
_ Salfish _ _
Salfish
Are _ _ _ _ you ready to sing a little [E] chorus for us _ Yeah
_ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah
_ _ _ _ Make it very very simple
so all you have to sing is _ _
Salfish
Nothing in the world's bitter [Dm] than _
_ [G] Salfish
English called it for even my vision
[C] _ _ Salfish
It's with [F] bread and meat
[C] When you want to eat
[Am] I _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] Salfish _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Salfish _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
Salfish
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] Salfish _ _ _ _ [C] Salfish _ _ _ Salfish Salfish _ [F] Salfish Salfish Salfish
_ _ [Am] _ _ Salfish Salfish
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ Salfish Salfish _ _ Salfish Salfish
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ Salfish Salfish Salfish
_ [C] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ [F]
Salfish
_ Salfish Salfish Salfish
[Am] Salfish Salfish Salfish Salfish Salfish _
[A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ Salfish _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
Salfish
[B] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Salfish
_ [A] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] Salfish _ _ _ [C] Salfish
_ _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ _ Salfish
[Cm] _ [Dm] Salfish _ [G] Salfish _ _ _ _ Salfish
[C] _ _ _ _ Salfish [F] Salfish
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am]
Salfish
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [C] Salfish Salfish _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _

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