Kingdom Coming Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][G]

[Verse 1]
Say [G]Darkies,
have you seen the master
with the mustache on his [D]face?
Go [G]along the road sometime this morning
like he's going to [D]leave the [G]place.
He's [C]seen the smoke way [G]up the river
where the Lincoln gunboats lay.
[D]He too[G]k his hat and he left very sudden
and I suspect he's [D]run [G]away.
Loom [C]as I run, ha,
the [G]dark is day, ho, [D]ho, ho, ho.
It [G]must be now that the kingdom am I
coming in the year of [D]Ju [G]bilaw.
He's six foot one way,
two feet t 'other
and he weighs three hundred [D]pound.
His [G]coat's so big
he couldn't pay the tailor,
and it won't go [D]halfway [G]round.
He [C]drills so much
that they call [G]him the captain,
and he gets so dreadful [D]tan.
Well, I [G]spec' he'll try and
fool them Yankees
for to think he's [D]con[G]traband.
To [C]Massar and Ha -Ha,
the [G]darkies stay [D]home.
It [G]must be now that the King to Mam
will come in the year of [D]Jubalore.[G]
The darkies get so lonesome
living in the log house on the [D]lawn,
That they [G]move their things
to the Mass's parlour -board
to keep them [D]while [G]he's gone.
There's [C]wine and cider [G]in the kitchen
and the darkies they'll have [D]some.
But ex[G]pect it'll all be confiscated
when the Lincoln sol[D]diers [G]come.
To [C]Massarun -ha -ha,
dee [G]-dah, dee -say -ho [D]-ho,
It [G]must be now that the kingdom
am I comin' in the year of [D]Ju [G]bilaw.
The overseer made us trouble
and he drove us round a [D]spell,
So we [G]locked him up in the
smokehouse cellar
with the key thrown [D]in [G]the well.
The [C]whip is lost, the [G]handcuffs broke,
but the master'll have his [D]pay.
He's [G]old enough, big enough,
he ought to know better than
to go and [D]run [G]away.
To [C]Massa run, ha, ha!
Deep [G]dark he stay, ho, [D]ho, ho, ho!
It [G]must be now that the Kingdom
am I coming in the year of [D]Ju bilaw.
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