Treat The Youths Right chords by Jimmy Cliff

• 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:
Bbm  Bbm              Db    Db
    (Treat the youths right)
Bbm  Bbm              Db    Db
    (Treat the youths right)
Bbm  Bbm              Db    Db
    (Treat the youths right)
Bbm  Bbm              Db    Db
    (Treat the youths right)
Bbm  Bbm              Db
    (Treat the youths right)
           Db                Bbm
Treat them right, treat them right!
 Bbm              Db
(Treat the youths right)