Tonart: G minor
Verse 1
Em
Bm
Em
Hey chuh! Stop the begging, man!
Yuh mek it look bad upon the whole a we.
You ever see dog pon the street?
And talk about fatha fatha.
Then all dog a your father too.
D
Em
Get up and do something for yourself
D
Em
Rise up and do something for yourself
D
Rise up and do something
Instead of your begging!
D
Bm
Em
Do something progressive for yourself
C
Bm
Am
G
One thing I can? t understand
Em
D
How did the guinea chicken
C
Bm
Em
so broad?
D
Get up and do something
Bm
Em
for yourselves
D
Bm
Look at the children,
D
Em
they are in school
Bm
D
Em
d further edu cation
Bm
D
Em
Coronation Market
C
Bm
I can? t believe that
Am
G
young strong man
D
Stand up on street and stretch
C
Bm
Em
out them hand
D
Get up and do something for yourselves
Em
(You can't beat a bush)
D
Bm
D
Em
Can? t you be a mechanic?
D
Can? t you teach yourself
Bm
D
Em
to paint a house?
D
Bm
Can? t you make a Dutch
D
Em
pot? Yahba pot!
D
Em
Can? t you make a pair of shoes?
D
Bm
Can? t you do something
D
Em
C
with the tailor?
Bm
Am
G
Em
I can? t understand
D
C
Bm
Em
Everyday you have fi nyam
D
Bm
D
And you nuh want to work at
D
Bm
D
A lazy man eat more than a working
Em
man (Him belly bigger)
D
Em
For him more time to eat the food
D
Bm
D
Em
While I have to be in the field
D
Bm
See if I can make tomorrow?
D
Em
C
s meal
Bm
Am
G
The building haffe reach the sky
Em
D
Them seem to a next sky
C
Bm
Em
scraper now
D
Get up and do something for
Bm
D
Em
yourselves
Rise up and work!
D
Rise up and do something
C
Bm
Am
This is what I can? t
D
C
Bm
Em
Women having children for lazy man
D
I wonder how the pickney them
Bm
D
Em
ago nyam
D
Those children need some
Bm
D
Em
edu cation
Bm
D
Em
disab il ity
C
Bm
Lawyers, doctors,
Am
G
D
teachers of tomorrow
C
Bm
Em
There won? t be no sorrow
D
Em
That? s all the hope that we have got (So you know what,
brother? Mind them)
D
Get up and do something
C
Em
Sell two callaloo, star
D
Get up and do something
C
Em
Even two ripe ba nana
Bm
Em
C
Bm
Granny she
Am
G
D
can wait so long
G
D
C
Bm
Em
Yet you want to be a jiffy man
D
Em
Get up and do something for yourselves
Meet me with a nana nap.
D
Get up and do something for
Bm
D
Em
yourselves
D
Bm
D
Em
You just a pray for John Brown fi dead
D
Why didn't you pray a good
Bm
D
Em
prayer for survival?
D
Everything you see a street
D
Em
Everything a street, yuh say you need
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