Trench Town
Written by Bob Marley
Recorded by Bob Marley & The Wailers in Kingston, JA 1980
Album: Confrontation (1983)
I belive the song is in 4/4 time
Bm (4 strokes) C(2) D(2)
Up a cane river to wash my dread
Bm C D
Upon a rock I rest my head
Bm(4) C(2) Bm(1) A#m(1)
There I vision through the seas of oppression
Am D
Don't make my life a prison, we come from
Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2)
Trench Town, Trench Town most of them come from Trench Town
G C D(2)
Can we free the people with music
G C D(2)
Can we free the people with music
G C D(6)
Can we free our people with music, with music, oh music
Bm(4) C(2) D(2) Bm(2) C(2) D(2)
Whoa my head, in desolate places we'll find our bread
Bm(4) C(3) Bm(1)
And everyone see what's taking place Whoa-yo
Am(4) D(4)
another page in history, We come from
Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2)
Trench Town, come from Trench Town We come from
Bm(2) Am(2)
Trench Town, Lord
G C D(2)
we free the people with music
G C D(2)
We free the people with music, sweet music
G C D(6)
We free our people with music With music, oh music, oh music
Bm(4) C(2) D(2)
They say it's hard to speak
Bm(4) C(2) D(2)
They feel so strong to say we're weak
Bm(4) C(3) Bm Am(4) D(4)
But through the eyes the love of our people Whoa-a they got to repay, We come from
Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2)
Trench Town, We come from Trench Town
Bm(2) Am(2)
Trench Town
Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2)
They say "can anything good come out of Trench Town?"
Bm(2) Am(2)
That's what they say
Bm(2) Am(2)
Say we're the underpriveleged people
Bm(2) Am(2)
So they keep us in chains
Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2) Bm(2)
Pay pay pay tribute to Trench Town We come from
Am(2) Bm(2)
not because we come from
Am(2) Bm(2) Am(2)
Just because we come from Trench Town
