Chords for Tradewinds - Dave Martins Pt 2 of 3 "Not a blade of grass & Is we Own"

_ This is Dave Martins.
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_ _ _ _ [C] _
Everybody say
peaceful [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
people.
[C] Struggling.
We struggle.
_ [D] _
_ Just [G] ask around.
But [B] _ [Em] when outside faces [C] from foreign places.
_ [D]
We _ [G] ain't backing down.
We ain't giving up no _ _ _ [Am] tree.
We ain't giving up no [D] river.
Nothing [G] long to be.
Not one blue sake.
Not [C] one rice grain.
Not [D] one for us.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D]
And _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] we love the open country.
[C] Of the roof and honey.
[D] And the essig we bone.
[G] A time of night.
[B] _ [Em] So we may criticize it.
[C] This is the home we love it.
[D] And we mean forgive.
We [G] have that right.
So we ain't giving up no mountain.
We ain't [C] giving up no tree.
And we ain't [D] giving up no river.
Nothing [G] long to be.
Not one blue sake.
Not [Am] one rice [C] grain.
[D] Not one for us.
Not [G] a blade of grass.
Not one golden apple.
Not [C] one chamu.
Not a [D] drop of water.
From the [G] bummer road.
Not one breadfruit.
_ Not [C] one white tea.
Not [D] one ginseng.
Not [G] one lime tree.
Not one sapodilla.
Not one [Am] caroline.
_ Not one [D] sugarcane.
_ _ _ [G] _
_ Not one sherry.
_ Not one [C] cracker.
_ Not [D] one guinea.
_ _ _ [G] _
_ Not one blue sake.
_ Not one [Am] rice [C] grain.
Not one grain.
_ [D] Not _ a [G] blade of grass.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] This land is our [Em] land now.
We [C] gonna make it somehow.
We [D] will bend like a bow but never break.
[B] _ Our [Em] fathers came here.
And the [C] Indians died here.
And [D] we moving from here.
Make no [G] mistake.
So we ain't giving up no mountain.
And we ain't giving [C] up no tree.
And we ain't giving [D] up no river.
That belongs [G] to me.
Not one blue sake.
Not one [C] rice grain.
Not one [D] for us.
Not a blade of [G] grass.
_ _ [Em] _ _
Every time we sing this [E] song for our Guyanese audience,
a chorus must break out.
_ And here is your chorus to break out.
All you have to do is sing.
You all come here to sing.
_ _ One.
Two.
_ Three.
No we ain't giving up no [G] mountain.
[Ab] And we ain't [Am] giving up no _ [Dbm] river.
_ [D] That [G] belongs to me.
Not one blue sake.
_ [Abm] Not one rice grain.
_ [D] Not one for us.
One more time.
Not [G] a blade of grass.
Let me hear you.
No we ain't giving up no mountain.
Yes.
No we ain't [Am] giving up no tree.
We ain't [D] giving up no river.
That [G] belongs to me.
Not one blue sake.
_ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
No we ain't giving up no mountain.
And we ain't giving up [Am] no tree.
We ain't giving up [D] no river.
That [G] belongs to me.
Not one blue sake.
Not one rice [C]
grain.
Not one for [D] us.
Not a blade of grass.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] We have come to the almost to the end.
We have one more song to do.
And I just want to tell you briefly that this song is a song that came out of a
fete we played in New York about three years ago.
Maybe some of you were there.
[Ab] I don't know.
But it was a night when it was a magic night.
It was a Guyana night and people were nostalgic
about Guyana.
And I went I was moved by it and went back to Cayman and [Em] wrote a song. _
_ We come across the Caribbean Sea.
Mother father picnic.
And [D] we settle down in GT.
Why ho.
_ _ We sat down in the pouring rain.
In the hot sun and the sugar cane.
[D] And we planted the rice and cane.
[Em] Why ho. _
[B] Yes we take off the boots and we put on the roots.
[Em] Why ho.
So remember the crown boot that grow in Hessequibo is real.
[E] _ And the [Am] six o'clock in [D] the sack is [G] real.
_ _ [Am] And the lava that run [B] from the fire gun [Em] is real.
_ [B] And the wall of a force on the quarantine [Em] course is real.
_ [Am] I hear the boundary crime is real.
[Em]
So the ten of is real.
[B] Human Ayana [Em] is real.
_ _ [Am] Brick or rile is real.
[Em] Arab primer is real.
[B] Human Ayana [Em] is real.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Em] Whether cruel or whether pleasant.
We know the Pagua and come for dance.
[Bm] And we know how [D] to wine and dance.
[Em]
Why ho.
_ And we celebrate Diwali.
And when it's time for Mashramani.
[D] It's party, party, party.
[Em] Why ho.
_ [B] Yes we know how to rock until we on the wave.
[Em] Why ho.
So _ remember the crown boot that grow in Hessequibo is real.
[E] _ [Am] And the six o'clock [D] in the sack is [G] real.
_ _ [Am] And the lava that run [D] from the fire gun [Em] is real.
_ And [B] the wall of a force on the quarantine course [Em] is real.
_ _ [Am] Partner fellows is real.
[Em] Five finger shoes is real.
[B] Human Ayana is [Em] real.
[E] The [Am] semolina wine is real.
And the [Em] mascarade wine is real.
[B] Human Ayana is [Em] real. _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
Listen to me [Em] chip sugar cake and salt fish and bake is real. _
_ [Am] Mutton curry and two pearl auri [Em] is real. _
Gonna [B] be a nice black pudding and rice is [Em] real. _
The coconut metachi [B] and riri riri is real. _ _
Babu lala rich and with the kota in the hand is real. _ _
[Am] Alexander willing and the blue dashiki [Em] is real. _ _
[B] Frankie minis and the boom boom sees [Em] is real. _
And [B] the fella in tongue name Lee funky bunk is [Em] real. _
And the fellas in the tree watching for a kid for free is real. _
And the [Am] brother in the night preaching Jordanite is [Em] real. _ _
[B] Mary and Paul up on the sea wall is real. _ _