...ISLANDS UNITE... by Steel Pulse
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*from 'Vex' (1994)*


Intro:

F5  C#5  Eb5
         Woah, now.

F5  C#5  Eb5 (x2), F5 , C5

Chorus 1:

  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.
  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.

Verse 1:

F5
 First world; your bomb is sticking,
                             C#5  Eb5
Dirty deeds and politricking.
F5
 A whore's a whore, a witch is a witch,
                                C#5  Eb5
Answer to your name; Elizabitch.
F5
 Third world; its time for switching,
                                 C#5  Eb5
Watch how the tables are turning.
F5
 We must abandon the sinking ship,
                                          C#5  Eb5
So here's your chance; don't make it slip.

Chorus 2:

  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.
  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.

Verse 2:

F5                                       C#5  Eb5
 Christopher Columbus and a-Captain Hook,
F5                                                      C#5  Eb5
 Pirates of the ocean, glorified, written in your books..
F5                                                             C#5  Eb5
 They never knew that this ya music would help us find our way,
F5                                                                   C#5  Eb5
 It's the source I say, that makes us one, pumping through our veins.

Chorus 3:

  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.
  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.

Break:

F5

Verse 3:

F5                                                            C#5  Eb5
 Independence is what we crave for, so leave our riches alone,
F5                                                                     C#5  Eb5
 Don't wanna be your footstool, 'cos you rule with your heart of stone.
F5                                                         C#5  Eb5
 Don't want corruption to lead us and keep the masses poor,
F5                                                 C#5  Eb5
 Now prophecy must fulfill, 'pon Babylon the whore.

Chorus 4:

  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.
  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.

Verse 4:

             F5
You take the commonwealth, and make the common poor,
                                               C#5  Eb5
Your tables are turned, 'cos we know the score.
         F5
We gonna scrap your script and flip your ship;
                                     C#5  Eb5
No more lashes from the massa's whip.
    F5
The bomb a tick; a cause panic and when it hit,
                              C#5  Eb5
Your world will smash to bits.
F5                                              C#5  Eb5
 Bit by bit, bit by bit, woah, no, no, na, yeah.

Chorus 5:

  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.
  F5                          C#5  Eb5
U-nite, all the islands unite,
    F5                                C#5  Eb5
And fight, the wicked dem out a sight.

(Repeat to Fade)


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY