Redemption Song Chords & Tabs

by Bob Marley

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 116
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 202, 101, 1, 101]

[Intro]
e|----------------------|----------------------|
B|----------------------|----------------------|
G                                               
D|--------------1/2-0---|-------0--------------|
A|----0-2---2/3-------2-|----0-2---2-3-2-0-----|
E|-3------3-------------|-3----------------3---|
e|----------------------|----------------------|
B|----------------------|----------------------|
G                                               
D|--------------1/2-0---|-------0--------------|
A|----0-2---2/3-------2-|----0-2-----3-2-0-----|
E|-3------3-------------|-3----------------3---|  / = Slide up

[Verse 1]
    G                      EmEm7
Old pirates, yes, they rob I.
     C        G/B      Am   
Sold I to the merchant ships
G                      Em  C         G/B        Am  
minutes after they took I   from the bottomless pit.
       G            Em Em7 
But my hand was made strong
C      G/B           Am     
By the hand of the Almighty.
   G                   Em    C   Am7    D  
We forward in this generation triumphantly.

[Chorus]
                 G    C       D        G         
Won't you help to sing    these songs of freedom?
      C     D        Em   C  D       G      C
Cause all I ever had,      redemption songs,
  D       G      C
redemption songs.

[Verse 2]
       G                      Em     Em7  
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
             C         G/B      Am    
None but ourselves can free our minds.
        G                 Em   
Have no fear for atomic energy,
                C       G/B      D    
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
    G                        Em  Em7 
How long shall they kill our prophets
         C      G/B      Am   
While we stand aside and look?
          G               Em         
Ooh, some say it's just a part of it.
      C         Am7      D    
We've got to fulfill the book.

[Chorus]
                  G    C       D        G        
Won't you help to sing    these songs of freedom?
       C     D        Em   C  D       G      C
'Cause all I ever had,      redemption songs,
  D       G      C  D       G      C
redemption songs, redemption songs.

[Instrumental]
Em  C  D
Em  C  D
Em  C  D
Em  C  D

[Verse 3]
     G                           Em   Em7 
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
           C           G/B          Am
None but ourselves can free our minds.
             G                Em    
Woh, Have no fear for atomic energy,
               C              G/B            D 
'Cause none of them-ah can-ah stop-ah the time.
    G                        Em Em7  
How long shall they kill our prophets
         C      G/B         Am
While we stand aside and look?
          G              Em          
Yes, some say it's just a part of it.
      C         Am7         D 
We've got to fulfill the book.

[Chorus]
                  G    C       D        G        
Won't you help to sing    these songs of freedom?
       C     D        Em   C  D       G      
'Cause all I ever had,      redemption songs,
 C     D        Em   C  D       Em    C
All I ever had,      redemption songs,
       D        G      C  D        G     
These songs of freedom,  songs of freedom

[Outro]
C  C/B  Am  Am6