Natty Dread Chords

KeyBm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays432

Natty Dread by Bob Marley is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Bm. It uses the chords Bm, C#m, A, D and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Bm
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  			Intro: Bm    C#m    Bm   C#m 
  
| A D | F#m  Bm | 
Dread, Natty Dread now,                          (Natty Dread) 
Dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                         (Natty Dread) 
Natty Dreadlock in a Babylon:                   (Natty Dread) 
A dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                      (Natty Dread) 
Eh!  Children get your culture                   (Natty Dreadlock) 
And don't stay there and gesture, a-ah,     (Natty Dreadlock) 
Or the battle will be hotter                        (Natty Dreadlock) 
And you won't get no supper.                    (Natty Dreadlock) 
  
Natty Dread, Natty Dread, now;                (Natty Dread) 
A dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                      (Natty Dread) 
Natty Dreadlock in a Babylon -                  (Natty Dread) 
Roots Natty, Roots Natty!                         (Natty Dread) 
  
Then I walk up the first street,                        (Natty Dreadlock) 
And then I walk up the second street to see.    (Natty Dreadlock) 
Then I trod on through third street,                  (Natty Dreadlock) 
And then I talk to some Dread on fourth street. (Natty Dreadlock) 
Natty Dreadlock in a fifth street,                       (Natty Dreadlock) 
And then I skip one fence to sixth street.          (Natty Dreadlock) 
I've got to reach seventh street:                      (Natty Dreadlock) 
Natty Dreadlock Bingy Bongo I                        (Natty Dread) 
Natty dread, Natty Dread, now,                       (Natty Dread) 
Roots Natty Congo I.                                      (Natty Dread) 
	
Bm | C#m 
Oh, Natty, Natty, 
Natty twenty one tousand miles away from home, yeah! 
Bm |  C#m 
Oh, Natty, Natty, 
And that's a long way for Natty to be from home. 
  
Don't care what the world seh;                  (Natty Dread) 
I'n'I couldn't never go astray.                   (Natty Dread) 
Just like a bright and sunny day:               (Natty Dread) 
Oh, we're gonna have things our way.       (Natty Dread) 
Natty Dread, Natty Dreadlock,                   (Natty Dreadlock) 
Dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                        (Natty Dreadlock) 
Don't care what the world seh;                  (Natty Dreadlock) 
I'n'I gonna have things our way.                (Natty Dreadlock) 
If a egg Natty in a the red -                       (Natty Dreadlock) 
If a egg Natty in a the red.                        (Natty Dreadlock) 
Natty Dread, Natty Dreadlock.

Paz... Jah Bless!!!
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante