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Treat the Youths Right Chords

Music by: Jimmy Cliff
Tone Db major BPM 81 Views 5
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[Verse 1]
[C][Am][C]
[Am]Trea[C]t
the youths right
Instead of putting up a [Am]fight
Treat the [C]youths right
Or you'll been playin' with dynam
[Am]ite
Treat the [C]youths right

[Verse 2]
[C]
Instead of putting us a [Am]fight
Treat the [C]youths right
Or you'll been playin' with dynam
[Am]ite
[G]When you go and look for a job

[Verse 3]
[F]
There is someone givin' you a fight
[G]Light them on, get to go and rob
[F]Then we know that that's not right

[Verse 4]
Oooh, [G]yeah (Oooh, yeah)
Oooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[C]Treat the youths

[Verse 5]
right
Instead of putting up a [Am]fight
Now if you treat the [C]youths right
Or you'll been playin' with dynam
[Am]ite
'Cause if you treat the [C]youths right, right, right, right

[Verse 6]
[C]
Instead of giving us a [Am]fight
Treat the [C]youths right
Or you'll be playin' with dynam[Am]ite
[G]All the boys and girls of today

[Verse 7]
[F]
Here's the well-know rumour
rumour of tomorrow
[G]Take heed to the words that I say
[F]All your days will be filled with sorrow

[Verse 8]
Oooh, [G]yeah (Oooh, yeah)
Oooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[C]Treat the youths

[Verse 9]
right
Instead of putting up a [Am]fight
'Cause if you treat the
[C]youths right
You could be sitting on a [Am]bomb
[C]I won't

[Verse 10]
[Am]
[C][Am]
[C][G]
go hither from the first resurrection
[F]I want my field in the second resurrection
[G]I won't go hither from the first generation
[F]I won't be real to the fifth
generation
Oooh, yeah (Oooh, [G]yeah) Oooh,

[Verse 11]
[G]
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[C]Treat the

[Verse 12]
youths right
Instead of giving us a [Am]fight
Treat the [C]youths right
Or you'll been playin' with
dynam[Am]ite

[Verse 13]
[Am]Sucka treat the [C]youths right,
right, right, right
Instead of putting up a [Am]fight
And if you treat the [C]youths
right
Or you'll been playin' with dynam[Am]ite

[Verse 14]
[G]I want protect them from the
ways and bullets
[F]No, we dream through the ways
[G]and solins
I want protect them from the
high school students
[F]Now, we dream through the
kids and violence
Oooh, [G]yeah

[Verse 15]
(Oooh, yeah)
Oooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[C]Treat the

[Verse 16]
youths right
Instead of putting up a [Am]fight
Now if you treat the [C]youths
right
Or you'll been playin' with dynam[Am]ite

[Verse 17]
If [Am]you treat [C]the youths right,
right, [Am]right, right
[C]Treat the [Am]youths right
[C]

[Verse 18]
[Am]Treat the youths right
Treat [C]the youths right

[Verse 19]
[Am]
Treat the [C]youths [Am]right
Treat the [C]youths right

[Verse 20]
Treat them right, [C]treat them [Am]right!
Treat [C]the youths right
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