Treat The Youths Right chords by Jimmy Cliff
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Capo on 1st
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Key: Db Difficulty: Novice Music & Lyrics: Jimmy Cliff Album: Special (1982) You can also play with capo 1, transpose -1 Intro: |Db |Db |Bbm |Bbm | x2 Chorus: Db Db Treat the youths right Db Bbm Instead of putting up a fight! Bbm Db Treat the youths right Db Bbm Or you'll be playing with dynamite Bbm Db Treat the youths right Db Bbm Instead of putting up a fight! Bbm Db Treat the youths right Db Bbm Bbm Or you'll be playing with dynamite
Verse 1:
Ab Ab
When you go and look for a job
Gb Gb
There is someone givin' you a fight
Ab Ab
Like they want you to go and rob
Gb Gb
And we know that that's not right
Ab
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
Ab
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Chorus:
Db Db
Treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Instead of putting up a fight!
Bbm Db
Now you fi treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Or you'll be playing with dynamite
Bbm Db
You seh fi treat the youths right, right, right, right
Db Bbm
Instead of giving us a fight
Bbm Db
Oh you fi treat the youths right
Db Bbm Bbm
Or you'll be playing with dynamite
Verse 2:
Ab Ab
All the boys and girls of today
Gb Gb
Who are the grown men and women of tomorrow
Ab Ab
Take heed to the words that I say
Gb Gb
Or your days will be filled with sorrow
Ab
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
Ab
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Chorus:
Db Db
Treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Instead of putting up a fight
Bbm Db
'Cause if you treat the youths right
Db Bbm
You could be sitting on a bomb
Bbm
(Woah woah woah waoh)
Db Db
(Woah woah woah waoh)
Instrumental:
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Verse 3:
Ab Ab
What was hidden from the first resurrection
Gb Gb
Now revealed in the second resurrection
Ab Ab
What was hidden from the first generation
Gb Gb
Now revealed to the fifth generation
Ab
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
Ab
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Chorus:
Db Db
Treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Instead of putting up a fight!
Bbm Db
Treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Or you'll be playing with dynamite
Bbm Db
Treat the youths right, right, right, right
Db Bbm
Instead of giving us a fight
Bbm Db
And you fi treat the youths right
Db Bbm Bbm
Or you'll be playing with dynamite
Verse 4:
Ab Ab
What was hidden from the wise and prudent
Gb Gb
Now revealed to the babes and sucklings
Ab Ab
What was hidden from the high school students
Gb Gb
Now, revealed to the the kids and ducklings
Ab
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
Ab
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Chorus:
Db Db
Treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Instead of putting up a fight!
Bbm Db
Now you fi treat the youths right
Db Bbm
Or you'll be playing with dynamite
Bbm Db Db
Now you fi treat the youths right right, right, right
Outro:
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(Treat the youths right)
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(Treat the youths right)
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(Treat the youths right)
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(Treat the youths right)
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(Treat the youths right)
Db Bbm
Treat them right, treat them right!
Bbm Db
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