Biography:
Sizzla Kalonji (real name Miguel Orlando Collins) is a Jamaican reggae musician. He was born on 17 April 1976, in St Mary, Jamaica, of devout Rastafari parents and raised in August Town. He is unusually prolific, even by Jamaican standards. Sizzla has worked with such artists as Mobb Deep.
Sizzla, along with reggae recording artists such as Capleton, Buju Banton, and Anthony B, are credited with leading a movement toward a re-embracement of Rastafarian
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My interpretation of sizzla’s song Be strong
Taken from the drop leaf riddim album.listen
To song for timing & strumming.
Comments and corrections to
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chords used: Dm A# C Am Gm
E = ( 0 0 0 0 3 )
A = ( 0 1 3 0 5 )
D = ( 0 3 2 2 5 )
G = ( 3 3 0 2 3 )
B = ( 2 3 1 1 3 )
e = ( 1 0 0 0 3 )
Progression pattern runs through entire tune.
Dm A# C Am
Gm Am
Intro picks played over this intro verse. But intermittently you can improvise
Picking into the song so as u like it.
e-5-5--7------------5-5--------5-5--7-7--7--5------------|
B--------8-8--7--5-------8-7-5-----------------8--5------|
G--------------------------------------------------------|
D--------------------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------|
Intro:
Whoa oh! Whoa whoa yeah! Whoa ay! Whoa hey!
Yeah, you got to get goin, no time for sitting down
Some people not knowing life is a cycle
You gotta know how to get around, Wooh! Ha!
Dm A# C Am
Gm Am
Chorus:
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Verse 1:
Hi! How you doing long time I have been seeing you
Hope your behaving yourself to good behaving citizen
Nothing come easy you got tom work cause I’m telling you
Hope and pray for the best, cause I believe in you
Not like the stereotype cleanliness intriguing you
Give thanks and praises for my life, and for us being here
Children can’t go to school, the system killing us
There’s good in us and recall is what they bringing out
Show the world what we got the struggles continues yo
Check the conditions in which were living yo
Ain’t no one come giving yo, got to work to be the winner
Our children going to bury not having your dinner
Chorus:
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Verse 2:
People are filled with expectations that’s fine with me
Opportunity comes but once so it’s time for me
I don’t think of fire because it’s sunshine for me
Something in the back of my HEAD!!!! Keeps reminding me
Keep on listening hear, when I call
There’s good, and that’s so just be good and stand tall
A lot of people love your wish for me to fall
I’m not scared, I pray to be who had created all
Evils and the demons woo I don’t stop with them
Hey they don’t like me, hey what’s up with them
I just can’t do without Jah love because it lacks the oxygen
I’m doing no fully, I don’t even no par with them
Chorus:
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Repeat Verse 1
Repeat Chorus
ENJOY! JAH GUIDE.
Taken from the drop leaf riddim album.listen
To song for timing & strumming.
Comments and corrections to
[email protected] or [email protected]
chords used: Dm A# C Am Gm
E = ( 0 0 0 0 3 )
A = ( 0 1 3 0 5 )
D = ( 0 3 2 2 5 )
G = ( 3 3 0 2 3 )
B = ( 2 3 1 1 3 )
e = ( 1 0 0 0 3 )
Progression pattern runs through entire tune.
Dm A# C Am
Gm Am
Intro picks played over this intro verse. But intermittently you can improvise
Picking into the song so as u like it.
e-5-5--7------------5-5--------5-5--7-7--7--5------------|
B--------8-8--7--5-------8-7-5-----------------8--5------|
G--------------------------------------------------------|
D--------------------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------|
Intro:
Whoa oh! Whoa whoa yeah! Whoa ay! Whoa hey!
Yeah, you got to get goin, no time for sitting down
Some people not knowing life is a cycle
You gotta know how to get around, Wooh! Ha!
Dm A# C Am
Gm Am
Chorus:
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Verse 1:
Hi! How you doing long time I have been seeing you
Hope your behaving yourself to good behaving citizen
Nothing come easy you got tom work cause I’m telling you
Hope and pray for the best, cause I believe in you
Not like the stereotype cleanliness intriguing you
Give thanks and praises for my life, and for us being here
Children can’t go to school, the system killing us
There’s good in us and recall is what they bringing out
Show the world what we got the struggles continues yo
Check the conditions in which were living yo
Ain’t no one come giving yo, got to work to be the winner
Our children going to bury not having your dinner
Chorus:
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Verse 2:
People are filled with expectations that’s fine with me
Opportunity comes but once so it’s time for me
I don’t think of fire because it’s sunshine for me
Something in the back of my HEAD!!!! Keeps reminding me
Keep on listening hear, when I call
There’s good, and that’s so just be good and stand tall
A lot of people love your wish for me to fall
I’m not scared, I pray to be who had created all
Evils and the demons woo I don’t stop with them
Hey they don’t like me, hey what’s up with them
I just can’t do without Jah love because it lacks the oxygen
I’m doing no fully, I don’t even no par with them
Chorus:
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Yes you got to be strong, and behave the best you can
The world is out there conquer your fears, and don’t you wait too long
Repeat Verse 1
Repeat Chorus
ENJOY! JAH GUIDE.
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