Yalla Yalla Tablature

Transcribed by:
Stephen Turner (smcnuff@altavista.com)

(Joe Strummer)
 
Intro; C  F  C  F etc

C             
Well so long liberty
F                       C
Let's forget you didn't show
          F
Not in my time
           C
But in our son's and daughter's time
F
When you get the feelin'
C                        F
Oh, when you got a room, meantime
C
We're cutting our hands at the kebab shop
F
In the streets of fear
C
Forgettin' all our best tai-kwon-do moves
F
On a barrel of beer
C
We're tryin' to get a signal on a raga FM
       F
To the D.T.I. bust CNN
C
Suckin' the wine right out of the vine
F
And spreading it out again
C                                       F
Groovin' let's cut out of the scene, go groovin'
C                                       F
Groovin' let's cut out of the scene, go groovin'
C      F
Drive, drive
C     F                          C    F    C    F
Drive distance no object Rastafari

C
Yalla yalla yalla ya-lah
F
Yalla yalla yall-i-oo, whoa 
C
Yalla yalla yalla ya-lah
F
Jambalaya on the bayou

C
Kool Moe Dee was in the treacherous three
F
There's old school, new school and Brownie McGee
C
Going underwater to explode
F                           C
Now night is falling on the grove
            F      C     F             
You can but dream          
And I hear
C
Yalla yalla yalla ya-lah
F
Yalla yalla yall-i-oo, whoa 
C
Yalla yalla yalla ya-lah
F
Jambalaya on the bayou

C
Yalla yalla yalla ya-lah
F
Yalla yalla yall-i-oo, whoa 
C
Yalla yalla yalla ya-lah
F                                           C      F
Let's jambalaya on the bayou tonight in the grove

C   F   C   F   C   F

     C             
Well so long liberty
F                       C
Let's forget you didn't show
          F
Not in my time
           C
But in our son's and daughter's time
F
When you get the feelin'
C                        F
Oh, when you got a room, meantime
C
We're cutting our hands at the kebab shop
F
In the streets of fear
C
Forgettin' all those best tai-kwon-do moves

F
On a barrel of beer
C
We're tryin' to get a signal on a raga FM
       F
To the TTI bust CNN
C
Suckin' this wine right out of the vine
F
And I'm spittin'it back again
C                                       F
Groovin' let's cut out of the scene, go groovin'
C                                       F
Groovin' let's cut out of the scene, go groovin'
C      F
Drive, drive
            C                 F    C    F    C    F
Distance no object Rasta - fari

C   F   C   F

C
Somebody got a vision of a homeland
F                                   C      F     C
From a township, from a township window
                      F    C   F   
Through a township window
C               F
Some crazy widow
                     C   F
Dares to have a vision
                    C
Starts seething, like

Seeming like a homeland
F
On the plain
C              F
Not in focus yet
C
Seeming like a homeland
F
On the plain
       C         F
Not in focus yet

C    F   C   F   



     C
From groovin'
F                      C
We increased our nation
       F
To the maximum density

And I say
C
Yalla yalla yalla yalla
F
Yalla yalla yalla yall-i-ooh-ooh
C
Yalla yalla yalla yalla
F
Jambalaya on the bayou
C
Yalla yalla yalla yalla
F
Yalla yalla yalla yall-i-ooh-ooh
C
Yalla yalla yalla yalla
F                                  C
Hone it to shine, shine like gold, shine!

 

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