Chords for Ras Shorty I & The Love Circle - Hold Me Jesus

I was talking to Mandela the other day.
So, you were talking to Nelson Mandela?
Not Nelson Mandela, Izaak.
Kariga Mandela, bhai.
Oh!
The man from the network, right?
Right.
He was telling me that they were having problems with the Calypso fraternity
in getting them to understand and recognize that rapso is poetry in Kaiso.
He said they couldn't recognize that rapso is talking Kaiso rather than singing Kaiso.
So, what do you do, bhai?
Well, they encouraged me to do a rapso.
But we don't sing rapso.
True, but let me call it Jamu Rapso then. _ _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] Woyoi! _ _
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_ _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] Yeneyeneyeneyeneyene_ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] Listen.
[E] I want to live.
I want to live [A] as Jesus lived.
[E] I mean, just like Jesus lived.
I want to live.
Identical.
Identical.
But Lucifer, the old devil that he is, don't want me to live [A] as Jesus lived.
[E] I mean day after day, every day he just stays.
Trying to pull [B] me away from the straight [E] way to the broad way.
From me a going no way.
I love the [A] straight way.
Me a want no [E] broad way. _ _ _
All them zombie coming.
[A] Trying to pull [E] me away. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] All them demons coming.
Trying to lead [B] me [C#] astray.
Aye aye aye [A] aye aye aye.
Hold me [Bm] Jesus.
Hold [E] me in your arms. _ _
[A] Hold me [Bm] Jesus.
Hold [E] me in your [A] arms.
[E] Don't let me go.
[A] No no no.
Don't [E] let me go.
[A] No no no.
Don't let [E] me go.
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[E] We have been deceived.
Totally deceived.
We were made to [B] believe that [E] Lucifer is a fella in a red body fitting suit.
Youth, that is the truth.
Satan is a brute and that is the truth.
He a have no [A] tail.
He a have no horns.
[E] He a have no fork in his hand.
Man, that description of [A] Satan is to my opinion [E] of a true manifestation in man and woman.
[A] As the plant [E] is a devious plan for your destruction.
All them who [A] say that Jesus is the way [E] and wouldn't obey what the Lord say.
As Satan go [A] sway to his own way.
[E] They go walk out with Bible and briefcase in hand trying to convert [A] man to their [E] religion.
Offering freedom when they themselves are the servants of [A] corruption.
You [E] understand?
Any time the conversation is more about religion than the [A] creator of the [E] creation.
They're working for Satan.
You understand?
Any man who [A] offer you salvation.
[E] I don't point you to Jesus Christ, the great I am, the word of God.
[B] I mean the holy Bible [E] man which is the power of God unto salvation.
But want you to [A] join he [E] denomination.
Want you to be a part of he religion. Listen, listen.
_ [A] This is the [E] dragon.
This is the radiant Christ.
All them John be saying I [A] am a victim of [E] niggomancy.
They say two Hindu come and walk on me.
Not [A] two, it's three.
[E] All them John be saying I have a shanty home [Bm] spirit on me.
Ay, ay, ay, [A] ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
Hold me [Bm] Jesus, [E] hold me in your arms.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
[A] Hold me [B] Jesus, hold [E] me in your arms.
[A] Yeah.
Don't [E] let me go.
[A] No, no, no.
Don't [E] let me go.
[A] No, no, no.
Don't [E] let me go. _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [E] Listen, when I was a youth, I lived like a brute.
And that is the truth.
[A] Youth.
_ [E] Adultery and fornication was my addiction.
Woman and [A] more woman was [E] Satan's plan for my destruction.
But I found salvation.
Thanks be to [A] Jesus Christ, the great [E] I AM, who died for my condemnation,
and rose again from the dead [A] for my justification.
[E] I found salvation.
That's why I say, I want to [A] live.
I want [E] to live.
I want to live as Jesus lived.
I mean just as [A] Jesus lived.
I [E] want to live identical. _
Identical.
But Lucifer, [A] the old devil that he [E] is,
don't want me to live as Jesus lived.
You see, day after [A] day, every day, just [E] day,
trying to pull me away from the straight way to the broad [A] way.
But me a going [E] no way.
I love the straight way.
Me a want no broad way.
You understand what I say?
I say, me a going no way. _
All them zombies saying,
how I used to be so sexy.
They want the anger making love for [A] me.
And in [E] planning, all them zombies trying to put that old sex [B] demon on me.
[G#] Aye, aye, [E] aye, aye, aye, aye.
Hold me [Bm] Jesus, hold [E] me in your arms.
Oh, oh, [A] oh, oh, yeah.
Hold me [B] Jesus, [E] hold me in your arms.
[A] Let [E] me go, [A] no, no.
[E] Let me go, [A] no, no, no.
[E] Let me go.
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[Em] Oh, oh, [A] oh, oh, yeah.
[E] _ Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.