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Toots And The Maytals

In The Dark

by Toots And The Maytals
Toots And The Maytals

Biography:

Jamaican ska vocal group The Maytals became a reggae band in 1971, renamed Toots and The Maytals with Toots Hibbert (Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert) as front figure. The band won a 2005 Grammy award for the album True Love. Funky Kingston in early 70s is on Rolling Stone's list The Greatest Albums of All Time. The bass line in "54-46" is one of the most covered in pop music. Songs such as "Monkey Man", "Pressure Drop", "Bam Bam", among others, made them favorites for the early skinhead movement of white working-class youth in UK.

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203 Artist   70 Music   478 Tab Tab
...IN THE DARK... by Toots and the Maytals
-----------------.........................

*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*


Intro:

D#, G# D#
D#, A#7 D#

D#
Riddle me this, riddle me this,
G# D#
Riddle me, riddle me that.
A#7 D#
I bet you don't know just where I'm at.

Verse 1:

D# G# D#
In the dark, you live your life,
D# A#7
In the dark, you cheat and lie.
D# G# D#
In the dark, you want to fuss and fight,
G# D# A#7 D#
In the dark, you will get no life.

Interlude:

D#, G# D#
D#, A#7 D#
Listen...

Verse 2:

D# G# D#
People tell me love, love is true,
D# A#7
People tell me love, what love can do.
D# G# D#
You keep on telling me love and then sleep,
G# D# A#7 D#
That's when you try to turn your back on me.

Interlude:

D#, G# D#
D#, A#7 D#

Verse 3:

D# G# D#
I'm so lonely and so blue,
D# A#7
Good God, I keep on loving no one but you.
D# G# D#
I wonder where you go, I wonder where you are,
G# D# A#7 D#
And I know one day soon you'll wanna, (break my heart).

Interlude:

D#, F# G# D# (x3), D#, A#7 D#

Outro:

D#
Riddle me this, riddle me this,
G# D#
Riddle me, riddle me that.
A#7 D#
I bet you don't know just where I'm at.
D#
Riddle me this, riddle me this,
G# D#
Riddle me, riddle me that.
A#7 D#
I bet you don't know just where I'm at.

(Repeat to Fade)


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------

D# G# A#7 F#

EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x68886 466544 686766 244322


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2009 ([email protected])




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