Man Piaba chords by Harry Belafonte

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G C D G
G C D G


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

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


Verse 2:
       Gm                   Cm
It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
        D                  G
And the confusion made the brain go 'round
  G                   C
I went and ask a good friend of mine
D                     G
Known to the world as Albert Einstein
         B
He said "Son,
           G                       C
from the beginning of time and creativity
D                              G
There existed the force of relativity
G                 C
Pi r square and a minus ten
     D            G    D
is a routine only when
G                   C
The solar system in one light year
D7                           G
Make the Hayden planetarium disappear
   G             C
So if Mt Everest doesn't move
     D7                     G
I am positive that it will prove


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


Verse 3:
Gm                         C
It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
D                          G
And the confusion made the brain go 'round
G                         C
I grabbed a boat and went abroad
D7                   G
In Baden Baden asked Sigmund Freud
G                                C
He said "Son, from your sad face remove the grouch
D                    G
Put the body down up on the couch
G              C
I can see from your frustration
D               G       D
a neurotic sublimation, Hey!
G                C
Love and hate is psychosomatic
D                                G
Your Rorsach shows that you're a peri pathetic
G                     C
It all started with a broken sibling
D7                         G
In the words of the famous Rudyard Kipling


Chorus:
              G7                  G7
He said, "The woman piaba and the man piaba
        G                 D
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass
    G          G           G          C
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm
        D                             Gm
And the famous grandy scratch scratch


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


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