One Drop

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

  5   6  6  5   6    5
Feel it in the one drop
 5   -4    -5   -5   -5  -5  5
And will still find time to rap
  5    5   6   5   6    5
We’re mak-ing the one stop
 5   -5 -5 -5 -5   5
The gen-er-a-tion gap
 5   6   5    6    5
So feel the drum beat
-5 -5  -5    -5   5
As it beats with-in
  5   6  5  6   5
Play-ing a rhy-thm
 5  -5   -5 -5  -5    -5  -5  5   6   6
Re-sist-ing a-gainst the sys-tem ooh we

3   4  -4  -5  5  -4   4  -4
I know Jah ne-ver let us down
  5   -5     6     4    4
Pull your rights from wrong
3   4  -4  -5  5   -4  4  -4
I know Jah ne-ver let us down
 5  6   5  6   5  6
Oh no, oh no, oh no

  4    4   3    4   -5   5
They made the world so hard
 5  6 5  4    4  4   4   4   4  -4    5
Ev-er-y day, we got to keep on fight-ing
  4    4   3     4  -5   5
They made the world so hard
 6  6 6  4    3   4   4   4  -3’ 3    5
Ev-er-y day, the peo-ple are dy-ing yeah

  5   6   6   5   -5   6   5
From hun-ger and star-va-tion
 5   5 -4   4
Lam-en-ta-tion
 5    6   6  5  5 -5  6   5
But read it in Rev-e-la-tion
  -5     5   -5   5  -4    4  
You’ll find your re-demp-tion

 5   -4   3    4   4  4    4     4   4  -4  5  -4  4
And then you give us the teach-ings of his ma-jes-ty
 5   5   -4    4   4  4   4  -4  5 -4  4
For we don’t want no de-vil phi-los-o-phy
 5   -4   3    4   4  4    4     4   4  -4  5  -4  4
And then you give us the teach-ings of his ma-jes-ty
 5  -4    4    4  4  4   -4  5 -4  4
We don’t want no de-vil phi-los-o-phy

  5   6  6  5   6    5
Feel it in the one drop
 5   -4    -5   -5   -5  -5  5
And will still have time to rap
We’re mak-ing the one stop
And we’ll fill in the gap
So feel the drum beat
As it beats with-in
Play-ing a rhy-thm
Fight-ing a-gainst isms and sk-ims

I know Jah ne-ver let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know Jah ne-ver let us down
Oh no, oh no, oh no

They made the world so hard
Ev-er-y day, we got to keep on fight-ing
They made the world so hard
Ev-er-y day, the peo-ple are dy-ing yeah


Feel it in one drop
And will still have time to rap
We’re mak-ing the one stop
And we’ll fill in the gap
So feel the drum beat
As it beats with-in
Play-ing a rhy-thm

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