Biography:
The Wailing Souls started out as a three-piece - Winston 'Pipe' Matthews, George 'Buddy' Haye and Lloyd 'Bread' McDonald - known as the Renegades in 1965.
In the late 60s, Matthews and McDonald recorded on Coxsone Dodd's famous Studio One label with singers Oswald Downes and Norman Davis as both The Classics and The Wailing Souls.
The Wailing Souls then moved to Bob Marley's Tuff Gong label in the early 1970s and became known as Pipe and The Pipes to avoid confusion with The Wailers.
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[Intro]
G
G
Free the sweet black slave, free the sweet black slave.
[Verse 1]
D G D G
Got a sweet black angel, got a pin up girl
D G D G
Got a sweet black angel, up upon my wall
D G D G
Well, she ain't no singer and she ain't no star
D G D G
But she sure look good and she move so fast.
[Chorus]
Em Am
Yes the girl in danger, yes the girl in chains
D G
Yet she keep on pushin', would you do the same
Em Am
She's countin' up the minutes, she's countin' up the days
D G
She's a sweet black angel, oooh, not a sweet black slave.
D G D G
not a sweet black slave, not a sweet black slave.
D G D G
not a sweet black slave, not a sweet black slave.
[Instrumental]
G G G D x8
[Verse 2]
D G D G
Ten little youths sittin' on the wall
D G D G
Their brothers been fallin', fallin' one by one
D G D G
For the judges in a judges court,
D G D G
Now the judge he's gonna judge her, for all that he's worth.
[Chorus]
Em Am
But the girl in danger, yes the girl in chains
D G
Yet she keep on pushin', would you take her place
Em Am
She's countin' up the minutes, she's countin' up the days
D
She's a sweet black angel, not a gun toting teacher
D
Not a red lovin' school mom, ain't someone gonna free her
G D G
Free the sweet black slave, free the sweet black slave.
D G D G
Free the sweet black slave, free the sweet black slave...
G
G
Free the sweet black slave, free the sweet black slave.
[Verse 1]
D G D G
Got a sweet black angel, got a pin up girl
D G D G
Got a sweet black angel, up upon my wall
D G D G
Well, she ain't no singer and she ain't no star
D G D G
But she sure look good and she move so fast.
[Chorus]
Em Am
Yes the girl in danger, yes the girl in chains
D G
Yet she keep on pushin', would you do the same
Em Am
She's countin' up the minutes, she's countin' up the days
D G
She's a sweet black angel, oooh, not a sweet black slave.
D G D G
not a sweet black slave, not a sweet black slave.
D G D G
not a sweet black slave, not a sweet black slave.
[Instrumental]
G G G D x8
[Verse 2]
D G D G
Ten little youths sittin' on the wall
D G D G
Their brothers been fallin', fallin' one by one
D G D G
For the judges in a judges court,
D G D G
Now the judge he's gonna judge her, for all that he's worth.
[Chorus]
Em Am
But the girl in danger, yes the girl in chains
D G
Yet she keep on pushin', would you take her place
Em Am
She's countin' up the minutes, she's countin' up the days
D
She's a sweet black angel, not a gun toting teacher
D
Not a red lovin' school mom, ain't someone gonna free her
G D G
Free the sweet black slave, free the sweet black slave.
D G D G
Free the sweet black slave, free the sweet black slave...
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