Israelites
Desmond Dekker
*Slow: - [A] Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
So that every [A7] mouth can be fed
[D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites [F] [G]
[A] Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
So that every [A7] mouth can be fed
[D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites [C] [G]
[A] My wife and my kids they pack up and a leave me
Darling she said I was [A7] yours to receive
[D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites [C]
[A] Shirt dem a-tear up trousers are go
I don't want to end up like [A7] Bonnie and Clyde
[D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites [F] [G]
[A] After a storm there must be a calm
[A] Catch me in your palm you [A7] sound your alarm
[D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites [F] [G]
[A] [F] [G] [A] [D] [A] [F] [G] [A] [E7]
Repeat verses
[D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites
I wonder who I'm working for [D] Poor [E7] me [A] Israelites