Capture Land Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]And I say dread and
terrible pon dem
Good god of grace, well I have his mercy
And me say old slave driver
Time is catching up on you
Old slave driver I know your
sins dem a haunt you

[Verse 2]
Carry we go [Am]home, carry we go home
And bring we gone a east
[C]Cau[Am]se man a rasta man
And [C]rasta nuh [Am]live pon
no cap[G]ture [Am]land
Carry we go home
An mek we settle and seize
Caw man a rasta man
And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

[Verse 3]
Lord [Am]Ameri[C]ca a c[Am]apture land
Di whole a Jamaica a capture land
A long time dem wah trick
the [C]rasta [Am]man
Like dem nuh know say man a real African
Yuh tink me nuh memba King Ferdinand
And teifing columbus have a golden plan
Dem make a wrong turn and
end up in the Caribbean
One rass genocide kill nuff Indian
Lord fi turn paradise in a plantation
And bring cross one [C]ship [Am]load a African
No hear comes the
teifing queen from en gland
No she carmwell and envy mother
Century pon top a century
[C]full a [Am]sufferation
And after four hundred year mi
[C]say [Am]no referation
And now dem wah fi kill we wid taxation
But a beg you please [C]take me
[Am]to the mother land

[Verse 4]
Carry we go [Am]home, carry we go home
And bring we gone a [C]east[Am]
Cause man a rasta man
And rasta nuh live pon no capture land
Carry we go home
An mek we settle and seize
Caw man a rasta man
And rasta nuh live pon no
[G]capture [Am]land

[Verse 5]
Watch [Am]dem pon di top a di hill
A look inna dem plate how
it proper and it fill
Because down town have shotta fi kill
Dem tell the tourist say fi stop a Negril
So come mek we start a new chapter
We nah stay pon di land weh dem capture
A me say Africa fi all true rasta
A say go tell di unscrupulous factors say

[Verse 6]
Carry we go [Am]home, carry we go home
And bring we gone a east
Cause man a rasta man
And rasta nuh live pon no capture land
Carry we go home
An mek we settle and seize
Man a rasta man
And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

[Verse 7]
Cherry [Am]garden a capture [D]land
Me [Am]tell you Shortwood seh
dat a capture land
Los Angeles dat a capture land
And New York City dat a capture land
East some a di place weh
you wah go live sweet
A teifing land there's no title fi it
And some a these place [C]weh
you [Em]wah go live [Am]nice
A tief dem tief it in the name of Christ
Spanish Town dat a cap[Em]ture [D]land
The [Am]whole a Kingston dat
a capture land
Remember Portland dat a capture land
And all down a Trinidad dat
a capture land
Barbados dat a capture land
Tell dem Bermuda dat a capture land
And tell Colombia dat a capture land
All round a Cuba dat [C]a c[Am]apture land

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