Treat The Youths Right chords by Jimmy Cliff

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

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

Key: DbDb

Difficulty: Novice

Music & Lyrics: Jimmy Cliff
Album: Special (1982)


You can also play with capo 1, transpose -1

Intro:
|DbDb  |DbDb  |BbmBbm  |BbmBbm  | x2

Chorus:
DbDb        DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of putting up a fight!
BbmBbm       DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb              BbmBbm
 Or you'll be playing with dynamite
BbmBbm       DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of putting up a fight!
BbmBbm       DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb              BbmBbm  BbmBbm
Or you'll be playing with dynamite

Verse 1:
AbAb        AbAb
 When you go and look for a job
GbGb        GbGb
 There is someone givin' you a fight
AbAb           AbAb
 Like they want you to go and rob
GbGb        GbGb
 And we know that that's not right
   AbAb
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
   AbAb
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Chorus:
DbDb        DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of putting up a fight!
      BbmBbm       DbDb
Now you fi treat the youths right
DbDb              BbmBbm
 Or you'll be playing with dynamite
      BbmBbm       DbDb
You seh fi treat the youths right, right, right, right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of giving us a fight
     BbmBbm       DbDb
Oh you fi treat the youths right
DbDb               BbmBbm  BbmBbm
 Or you'll be playing with dynamite

Verse 2:
AbAb        AbAb
 All the boys and girls of today
GbGb             GbGb
 Who are the grown men and women of tomorrow
AbAb        AbAb
 Take heed to the words that I say
GbGb          GbGb
 Or your days will be filled with sorrow
   AbAb
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
   AbAb
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Chorus:
DbDb        DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of putting up a fight
       BbmBbm       DbDb
'Cause if you treat the youths right
DbDb             BbmBbm
 You could be sitting on a bomb
         BbmBbm
(Woah woah woah waoh)
         DbDb  DbDb
(Woah woah woah waoh)

Instrumental:
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||BbmBbm  |BbmBbm  |

Verse 3:
AbAb            AbAb
 What was hidden from the first resurrection
GbGb         GbGb
Now revealed in the second resurrection
AbAb            AbAb
 What was hidden from the first generation
GbGb         GbGb
Now revealed to the fifth generation
   AbAb
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
   AbAb
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Chorus:
DbDb        DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of putting up a fight!
BbmBbm       DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb              BbmBbm
 Or you'll be playing with dynamite
BbmBbm       DbDb
Treat the youths right, right, right, right
DbDb           BbmBbm
 Instead of giving us a fight
      BbmBbm       DbDb
And you fi treat the youths right
DbDb               BbmBbm  BbmBbm
 Or you'll be playing with dynamite

Verse 4:
AbAb            AbAb
 What was hidden from the wise and prudent
GbGb          GbGb
 Now revealed to the babes and sucklings
AbAb            AbAb
 What was hidden from the high school students
GbGb            GbGb
 Now, revealed to the the kids and ducklings
   AbAb
Oooh yeah (oooh yeah)
   AbAb
Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Chorus:
DbDb        DbDb
Treat the youths right
DbDb            BbmBbm
 Instead of putting up a fight!
      BbmBbm       DbDb
Now you fi treat the youths right
DbDb              BbmBbm
 Or you'll be playing with dynamite
      BbmBbm       DbDb            DbDb
Now you fi treat the youths right right, right, right

Outro:
BbmBbm BbmBbm       DbDb  DbDb
  (Treat the youths right)
BbmBbm BbmBbm       DbDb  DbDb
  (Treat the youths right)
BbmBbm BbmBbm       DbDb  DbDb
  (Treat the youths right)
BbmBbm BbmBbm       DbDb  DbDb
  (Treat the youths right)
BbmBbm BbmBbm       DbDb
  (Treat the youths right)
      DbDb        BbmBbm
Treat them right, treat them right!
 BbmBbm       DbDb
(Treat the youths right)