Medication Chords & Tabs

by Damian Marley

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Basic Pattern:
BPM: 85
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 101, 203, 101, 203, 101, 203, 101]
Swing (16th triplet) Pattern:
BPM: 85
Denominator: 16
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 202, 101, 1, 202, 202, 101, 202, 203, 202, 202, 202, 101, 202, 101, 1, 202, 202, 101, 202, 203]

[Chorus]
    Bbm   Fm
Medication
         Bbm                Fm
Your medication makes me high
         Bbm   Fm
Just be patient
             Bbm               Fm
I'm like a patient trying to find
     Ebm  Bbm
Levitation
          Ebm               Bbm
Run your fingers down my spine
    F    
Elevation
          F                       
Your medication makes me high  Hey

[Verse]
         Bbm                    Fm          
Such a short way up and such a long way down
  Bbm                       Fm               
Chalice it a bubble like we deh ya right down
     Bbm                             Fm             
The way you somethin’ nuff it haffi weigh five pound
      Bbm                        Fm           
Inna fields of marijuana that is my playground
I love you, Mary J
             Ebm               
You're the prettiest of flowers
          Bbm          
Girl, me can't complain
               F                                        
When I'm with you, I feel so high, I rise above the rain
            F                                           
And you no do people damage, like that bitch cocaine, no
Bbm                                  
And if them lonely, feeling only pain
      Bbm                                
'Cause, your DNA is of the highest strain
     Bbm                                
Your effect is so potent, it's so insane
       Bbm                               
You so gummy and sticky like a plasticine
           Ebm                     Bbm        
When me grind out your body, only stems remain
         Ebm                          Bbm        
And to love you is so risky, I might get detained
      F                                       
You always keep me flying on the highest plane
And anybody know, will always proclaim

[Chorus]
    Bbm   Fm
Medication
         Bbm                Fm
Your medication makes me high
         Bbm   Fm
Just be patient
             Bbm               Fm
I'm like a patient trying to find
     Ebm  Bbm
Levitation
          Ebm               Bbm
Run your fingers down my spine
    F    F
Elevation
          F               F       
Your medication makes me high  Hey

[Post-Chorus]
Bbm            Fm   Bbm                    Fm
Your leaves of green, your purples and blue
Bbm            Fm   Bbm            Fm
A short little kids, adore women too
      Ebm       Bbm          Ebm        Bbm
And I say to myself, what a wonderful herb
      F          F           F         F  
And I say to myself, what a wonderful herb

[Verse]
                 Bbm                  Fm         
Look how Babylon so duppy, dem fight you fi years
         Bbm                    Fm       
Fi your love whole heap a man serve years
             Bbm                    Fm  
Babylon so duppy, dem fight you fi years
         Bbm                    Fm  
And now the whole a dem a buy shares
                  Ebm              Bbm     
You should be a celebrity, amongst any tree
                  Ebm              Bbm
Across the seven seas, for your energy
              F                       
But you're an enemy, catching felonies
                          F          
Of the remedies in your recipes, whoa

[Chorus]
    Bbm   Fm
Medication
         Bbm                Fm
Your medication makes me high
         Bbm   Fm
Just be patient
             Bbm               Fm
I'm like a patient trying to find
     Ebm  Bbm
Levitation
          Ebm               Bbm
Run your fingers down my spine
    F    F
Elevation
          F               F       
Your medication makes me high  Hey

[Verse]
    Bbm                  Fm         
Ask me how you feel, splendid indeed
        Bbm                  Fm        
With a likkle bit a black splendid weed
        Bbm                      Fm           
Her parents grow indoors, not a stick nor seed
        Bbm                          Fm           
And she never force-ripe, it was a real slow speed
Ebm                 Bbm         
No fertilizer, natural baby feet
     Ebm                       Bbm           
No cross pollination, she's a real pure breed
      F                                         
Cultivated in love and she's not grown for greed
       F                                   
She's everything I want and also all I need

[Chorus]
    Bbm   Fm
Medication
         Bbm                Fm
Your medication makes me high
         Bbm   Fm
Just be patient
             Bbm               Fm
I'm like a patient trying to find
     Ebm  Bbm
Levitation
          Ebm               Bbm
Run your fingers down my spine
    F    F
Elevation
          F               F  
Your medication makes me high
Hey