Play-along chords for Feb. 26 Black History show at BAX

On Feb. 26th I'm doing a Black History Month show at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) in Park Slope. I'm inviting parents and kids to bring their instruments and join us on some Dees favorites. Here are the basic chords to four songs. I haven't put all the words because the chords just keep repeating in a pretty much the same cycle for the whole tune.

For more advanced players, we'll have the chords to some jazz tunes on hand day of show.

Get practicing! These are the same chords we use on the albums and in our YouTube videos so you should be able to play along easily.

Here's info on the show: http://bax.org/performances-events/family-events/lloyd-miller/

Lloyd



All these songs are copyrighted.
words & music by Lloyd Miller

Tub-Tub-Ma-Ma-Ga-Ga
    G                             C             G
If you get tired, do the Tub-Tub-Tubman
                                    D                    G
If you get mad, do the Martin Luther King
                                       C                       G
If you're feeling greedy, give it away like Gandhi
                                 D
Hum, hum, if you're too tired to sing



Sojourner Truth

G                          B7                        Em
Sojourner Truth traveled up the mountain
       C                              D
the moon was right behind her
        G           B7            Em
she looked down the mountain
     C                              D
at those who tried to stop her

                                 C
The moon looked like a light
                                D
and shined on Sojourner Truth
                        C
Where she's going
                D
you're invited too



Henry Box Brown

Bm
Henry Box Brown put himself in a box
                                                           F#7
mailed himself to freedom in the North

Henry Box Brown… this side up!

Philadelphia-bound
                                                       Bm
He tried to get to freedom in a box

Em! Em! Em!
                                                    Bm
They sold his wife and kids away

Em! Em! Em!
                                                                   Bm
that's when he started planning his escape

Em! Em! Em!

                                                       F#7
twas in the town of Richmond, VA

where a sympathetic tobacconist

helped Henry Box Brown escape
                  Bm
to the abolitionists



Cool Papa Bell

E
Cool Papa
C
Cool cool Papa
A7
Cool Papa
D
Cool Papa Bell

Same for rest of verse...


CHORUS
G
Cheetah cheetah
C
When your feetah
Am
Go round and round
D
Go round and round

G
Cheetah cheetah
C
When your feetah
Am
Go round and round
D7
Go round and round