Poverty Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]If [Am]you h[G]ungry,
you is a [Am]boy (yes!)
If you and your woman hungry,
you is a dam[G]n
boy (yes!)
And if you and your [Em]woman
and your pickney
[Am]hungry, you is a piece of. mmm, [G]mmm
Woke up and look at poverty
this [Am]morning[G]
Said to poverty,
"you can't stay inna [Am]me
yard" (come out!)
So me [G]tek up me cutlass and
start to do some
[Am]farming
While [G]some man lef' dem
country from early
[Am]this morning, and
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard
Dem nuh want a job
[G]Poverty knocking at the
door in their back [Am]yard
Let me remind you
[G]Poverty knocking at their door
in their back [Am]yard
Hear me!
[G]Soon and very soon the
red sun will [Am]be rising
[G]It gone to the West,
coming forward [Am]from the
East
And [G]along with that,
Mr. Hungry with a long
knife will [Am]be following
An[G]d always him and him
bound to get a [Am]stab
Don't you hear me when I say?
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard
Can't you hear me when I say?
[G]Poverty knocking at the
door in their back [Am]yard
Not even a pound of sugar
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard[Dm]
Don't you [Am]hear me when I say?
[G]Poverty knocking at the door in their back
[Am]yard[G]
[Am][G][Em]
[Am][D][Am][G]
(.)
Some a dem run away an'
leave their [Am]country
(mi nah [G]go back!)
Claiming that they can't
find nothing [Am]to do
They re[G]fuse from their
grandfather - do the
[Am]farming
An[G]d tek up a gun,
just want some quick [Am]money
[G]But dust to dust and ash to ash,
life [Am]get funny
An' [G]you gone down ah??,
down in a piece of old
[Am]box, Lord
[G]Poverty knocking at the
door in their back [Am]yard
Hear me when I say
[G]Poverty knocking at the
door in their back [Am]yard
No mentality
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard
Where is your mentality?
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard
[G]"You nuh see after me
sharpen my cutlass
[Am]And go build up my garden
I [G]don't want go work for a man
[D]for [G]a farthing[Em][G]
[Am]Because my heart will [G]harden"
Wake up and look at poverty early
[Am]this morning
(come outside!)
Saying to [G]him you just
can't stay inna Rasta
[Am]yard (you nuh hear?)
So me [G]tek up me 'lass and
then mi start to do
some [Am]farming
Fi [G]mek mi name nuh go fi
thief and gone [Am]abroad
For [G]poverty knocking at
the door in their back
[Am]yard
All because dem lazy
[G]Poverty knocking at the door
in their back [Am]yard??
[G]Poverty knocking at the
door in their back [Am]yard
Run away and leave them, [Dm]Dread![Am]
[G]