Man Piaba chords by Harry Belafonte

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
G MajorG C majorC D MajorD G+G


Verse 1:
G+G          C majorC
When I was a lad of three-foot-three
D MajorD          G+G
Certain questions occurred to me
   G+G           C majorC
So I asked me father quite seriously
  D MajorD              G+G      D MajorD
To tell me the story 'bout the bird and bee
  G+G              C majorC
He stammered and he stuttered pathetically
D MajorD              G+G
And this is what he said to me

Chorus:
       G+G          G+G
He said, "The woman piaba and the man piaba
    G+G         D MajorD
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass
  G+G     G+G      G+G     C majorC
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm
    D MajorD               G minorGm
And the famous grandy scratch scratch


Verse 2:
    G minorGm          C minorCm
It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
    D MajorD         G+G
And the confusion made the brain go 'round
 G+G          C majorC
I went and ask a good friend of mine
D MajorD           G+G
Known to the world as Albert Einstein
     BB
He said "Son,
      G+G            C majorC
from the beginning of time and creativity
D MajorD               G+G
There existed the force of relativity
G+G         C majorC
Pi r square and a minus ten
   D MajorD      G+G  D MajorD
is a routine only when
G+G          C majorC
The solar system in one light year
D7D7              G+G
Make the Hayden planetarium disappear
  G+G       C majorC
So if Mt Everest doesn't move
   D7D7           G+G
I am positive that it will prove

Chorus:
     G+G          G+G
That the woman piaba and the man piaba
    G+G         D MajorD
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass
  G+G     G+G      G+G     C majorC
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm
    D MajorD               G minorGm
And the famous grandy scratch scratch


Verse 3:
G minorGm             C majorC
It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
D MajorD             G+G
And the confusion made the brain go 'round
G+G             C majorC
I grabbed a boat and went abroad
D7D7          G+G
In Baden Baden asked Sigmund Freud
G+G                C majorC
He said "Son, from your sad face remove the grouch
D MajorD          G+G
Put the body down up on the couch
G+G       C majorC
I can see from your frustration
D MajorD        G+G    D MajorD
a neurotic sublimation, Hey!
G+G        C majorC
Love and hate is psychosomatic
D MajorD                G+G
Your Rorsach shows that you're a peri pathetic
G+G           C majorC
It all started with a broken sibling
D7D7             G+G
In the words of the famous Rudyard Kipling


Chorus:
       G7G7         G7G7
He said, "The woman piaba and the man piaba
    G+G         D MajorD
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass
  G+G     G+G      G+G     C majorC
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm
    D MajorD               G minorGm
And the famous grandy scratch scratch


Verse 4:
G+G             C majorC
Well I traveled far and I traveled wide
D MajorD            G+G
And I don't even have me self a bride
G+G         C majorC
All the great men upon this earth
D MajorD             G+G   D MajorD
Have confused me since my birth
G+G              C majorC
I've been over land and been over sea
D MajorD                G+G
Trying to find answer 'bout the bird and bee
G+G         C majorC
But now that I am ninety three
D MajorD        G+G
I don't give a damn you see


Chorus:
    G+G          G+G
If the woman piaba and the man piaba
    G+G         D MajorD
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass
  G+G     G+G      G+G     C majorC
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm
    D MajorD               G+G
And the famous grandy scratch scratch