Biography:
With a discography of over 50 albums, Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry, on March 20, 1936, in Kendal, Jamaica) is a reggae and dub artist, who has been highly influential in the development and acceptance of reggae and dub music in Jamaica and overseas. He is amongst some of the first producers to create the sound we now know as 'dub'. He employs numerous pseudonyms, such as Pipecock Jaxxon and The Upsetter.
His musical career began in the 1950's
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Dreadlocks In Moonlight.(Lee Scratch Perry) MUSIC STYLE(REGGAE)(CHORDED BY HUMBLE LION)
INTRO: G Am/ G Am/
G Am
A time to sow and a time to reap, yes, my friend
G
The seed you sow, that's what you shall reap
Am
in the end.
C D C D
You light the fire, to burn this Nyah
C D C D
But it no work out, you're just a weakheart
G Am
You send your big neck police friends fe come cool I up
But it no work
G Am
For Jah Jah walk right in and cool up the scene
You get a jerk
C D
Far better put they trust in Jah
C D
Shall like be Mount Zion I
C D
That shall never removeth, iyah
C D
But abideth for iver, Jah Jah
G
The knife that stick the sheep
Am
A go stick the goat, do you hear?
G Am
How you gonna feel when the knife is at your throat?
C D C D
For sowing bring reaping, and reaping is harvest'
C D C D
The seed that you sow a yard that's what you shall reap, yeah
Do you hear?
C D
Jah is I light and salvation, whom shall I fear?
C D
Jah the protector of I life, of whom shall I be afraid?
G Am
Hypocrite inna broad daylight, parasite inna dim light
D Am
Dreadlocks in moonlight, baldhead at sunrise, oh
C D
Jah Jah is I shepherd, I shall not want
C D
Do you hear? Do you see?
C D
Jah Jah is I shepherd I shall not want
G Am
You send your big neck police friends fe come cool I up
But it no work
G Am
For Jah Jah walk right in and cool up the scene
G Am
You get a jerk, you get a jerk, it no work
G
You set a sprat to catch a whale
Am
Little did you know
G
Jah Jah shark was on your trail
Am
It didn't work
G
It couldn't work
INTRO: G Am/ G Am/
G Am
A time to sow and a time to reap, yes, my friend
G
The seed you sow, that's what you shall reap
Am
in the end.
C D C D
You light the fire, to burn this Nyah
C D C D
But it no work out, you're just a weakheart
G Am
You send your big neck police friends fe come cool I up
But it no work
G Am
For Jah Jah walk right in and cool up the scene
You get a jerk
C D
Far better put they trust in Jah
C D
Shall like be Mount Zion I
C D
That shall never removeth, iyah
C D
But abideth for iver, Jah Jah
G
The knife that stick the sheep
Am
A go stick the goat, do you hear?
G Am
How you gonna feel when the knife is at your throat?
C D C D
For sowing bring reaping, and reaping is harvest'
C D C D
The seed that you sow a yard that's what you shall reap, yeah
Do you hear?
C D
Jah is I light and salvation, whom shall I fear?
C D
Jah the protector of I life, of whom shall I be afraid?
G Am
Hypocrite inna broad daylight, parasite inna dim light
D Am
Dreadlocks in moonlight, baldhead at sunrise, oh
C D
Jah Jah is I shepherd, I shall not want
C D
Do you hear? Do you see?
C D
Jah Jah is I shepherd I shall not want
G Am
You send your big neck police friends fe come cool I up
But it no work
G Am
For Jah Jah walk right in and cool up the scene
G Am
You get a jerk, you get a jerk, it no work
G
You set a sprat to catch a whale
Am
Little did you know
G
Jah Jah shark was on your trail
Am
It didn't work
G
It couldn't work
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