Israelite:Desmond Dekker.
#1 in UK and #9 in USA in 1968.

INTRO:
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Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sah,
              Bb7
so that every mouth can be fed.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#1.
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Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sah,
              Bb7
so that every mouth can be fed.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#2.
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Wife and kids, dem pack up and-a leave me..
                         Bb7
Darling, she said, I was yours to receive.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#3.
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Shirt dem a tear up, trousers a go.
                            Bb7
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#4.
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After a storm there must be a calm.
                           Bb7
catch me in your farm..you sound an alarm.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

(INTERLUDE:)

#5.
Bb
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sah,
              Bb7
so that every mouth can be fed.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#6.
Bb
Wife and kids, dem pack up and-a leave me..
                         Bb7
Darling, she said, I was yours to receive.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#7.
Bb
Shirt dem a tear up, trousers a go.
                            Bb7
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

#8.
Bb
After a storm there must be a calm.
                           Bb7
catch me in your farm..you sound an alarm.
Eb    F           Bb         F# Ab
poor, poor me, me-Israelite. Aah.

OUTRO:
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poor, poor me, me-Israelite.(x3)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.