Chords for Original Soul Train Dancer Shabba-Doo Recalls Soul Train Days! | American Soul

I'm Adolfo Chabadu Quinones and I was a soul train dancer from [E] _ 1971 [D] until mid [E]-74.
_ Promise me the day that you quit your boyfriend, _ _ _ _ I'll be the next one to eat some meat.
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Promise me_
Growing up as a young black boy in Chicago in the project homes and just really being known as a Negro
was something that really saddened me most of the time until I heard James Brown say,
say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud and then Soul Train brought it all home, baby.
It was like, all right, we get to be proud and black and strut our stuff and be _ unapologetically black.
Soul Train started in Chicago and me and my sister, we appeared on the show in Chicago.
Of course, when they moved from Chicago to L.A., we were brokenhearted.
[Db] Lucky for us, my mom said, hey, you know what, I'm going to start your lives over.
We're going to move from Chicago to L.A.
It was there that we met someone named Campbell Locke Jr.
in a dance contest at the BSU,
the Black [D] Student Union at Fullerton College.
I saw him do a dance I had never really seen before.
It was like kind of a circus act.
Chicago was about being cool, you know, and reserved.
Here this guy is diving on the floor, sliding on his chest.
We became friends.
Later, [A] we became co-founders of The Lockers.
The Lockers, we're a fabled dance [D] troupe, a dance troupe that really changed the face of dance forever.
The original members of The [Am] Lockers, Don Campbell Locke Campbell, Flukie Luke, _ Campbell Locke [Dm] Jr.,
Slim the Robot.
[Gb] The guy that most people know [C] as Rerun, we called him Mr.
Penguin, Fred Berry.
[Ab] And then myself and Tony [E] Basil, who basically formed the group as a professional troupe.
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_ _ [Cm] _ Now I have some personal feelings about Don Cornelius, having [Gm] dealt with him professionally.
Don [Cm] Cornelius had a great opportunity to really [C] push The Lockers ahead.
[G] We weren't The Lockers [Fm] at the time, but we approached him, and we asked him [Cm] to pay us, and he wouldn't pay us.
And that kind of broke my heart a little bit.
All we're supposed to get is chicken.
We got a two-piece chicken dinner with some bread.
[D] At first that was fun, but then when our eyes started opening, we were like, hey, we should get paid.
And the way he responded was more disappointing.
When we asked to get paid, he kicked us off the show.
[Eb] Having been kicked off the show, and then formally being part of [D] the founding member of The Lockers,
I did manage to come [Cm] back as a soloist, something that no one has ever done before.
No hit record, just on my dance ability [Cm] alone.
He gave me a pretty elaborate introduction.
One of many who have gone from social dancing, or street dancing if you will, to soul train, to professional careers.
It's always a pleasure to welcome back one of our own.
How about a gang for [C] Shabba Do?
_ [Db] _ _ [Eb] That particular achievement, [Dm] I didn't see it for myself, I saw it for all of [Am] us.
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_ _ [D] Breaking into the movies was [Am] a [Dm] long journey.
I mean, of course I was with The Lockers, [Am] and about [D]
1977, [Dm] we disbanded for [Am] creative differences.
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You know, when you're part of a [Am] group, and you try [Dm] to start over again, it's pretty [Am] hard.
Yeah, they knew [G] me as Shabba Do from [Dm] The Lockers, but [Am] who was Shabba Do?
[G] _ [Dm] By himself.
I forged ahead, [G] I [Dm] started really owning that new style that I created.
After I built up some street [Am] cred in LA, someone [Dm] approached me and said,
hey, you know, they're going to [Am] be doing a new music video [D] with Lionel Richie.
And [A] I was like, Lionel Richie?
[D] That dude from Commodore?
And Commodore was like, yeah, [G] okay.
They said, [D] _ you know, they want to meet you, or whatever.
[Dm] So I went and met with the director, [F] and I met with Lionel [G] Richie.
[Dm] That led to me [C] choreographing all night long, the music video.
And I hired, of course, [Am] all the [D] people that you see in Breaking, [Dm] they were in that particular [Am] music video.
[G] Including my _ former wife, Leela Roshan.
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_ Soul Train affected and changed [G] American culture on so many levels.
Fashion, [Bb]
style, _ music, [C] attitude, [D] everything.
The show [Gm] reshaped American culture because of [Cm] how they danced, [G] but more importantly, why they danced.
We didn't [C] do it because we were trying to get jackets [Gm] or get our cool car.
We [G]
danced for our people.
We danced to be [A] recognized, not recognized in terms of [G] stardom.
To be recognized as a [Bb] people.
Look at me, I'm [C] somebody.
I've got something to say.
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