SPOONS REGGAE - "what me name" Tablature

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:57:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Rev. Linda Slug" <dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>

Here are the chords to the song What me Name? by the Jamaican funk-ethnic
crossover artist, Reggae Spoons. His "wife" (officially they are not
married) Joan plays bass, while Reggae plays electric and sometimes
acoustic guitars. The following is transcribed from Spoons' only UK
performance ever at the Citadel, St. Helens in 1988 as part of a Rasta
Revival concert. Bootlegs of the concert are easily available in
Liverpool city centre (Try Probe or Scene of the Crime), but the only
official release of the song was on a jamaican only 45 which has long
since been deleted. Reggae was a pivotal figure in the early 70s reggae
breakthrough and was reputed to have played in bands with Desmond Dekker
and Pete Tosh during the 1960s.


What Me Name? - Reggae Spoons.

bass tab:

X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
G----------|--------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
D--------2-|------2-|--------|--------|--------|----0----|
A--0---3---|0---3---|------2-|------2-|--0-3---|--2---2--|
E----------|--------|0---3---|0---3---|1-----1-|3--------|
Chords: Am... Am... Em... Em... F... G...


Repeat throughout verse.

Chorus:

G----------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
D----------|----0---|--------|3-2-0---|--------|----0---|--------|
A----0-3---|--2-----|3-2-0---|------3-|--0-3---|--2-----|3-------|
E--1-----1-|3-----3-|------3-|--------|1-----1-|3-----3-|--------|
Chords: F... G... C... C... F... G... C...



Lyrics:

RS:What me name?
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:What me name?
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:I say what me name?
Both:Your}name Reggae Spoons
Me}

Verse 2:
RS:What me play?
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:What me play?
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:Me play reggae! cos I
Both: Reggae Spoons.

Chorus:
Both: Jah love me
Jah protect me
Jah called
Haile Selassie
Jah feed me
Jah clothe me
Jah protect me
From what is nasty

Verse 3:
RS:Who gonna love ya?
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:Who gonna love ya?
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:Yeh, I gonna love ya, cos I is
Both: Reggae Spoons

Instrumental break.
Reggae sometimes plays the sax here, but on this occasion (St. Helens) a
member of a different band, uncredited on the sleeve played the melody of
No Woman No Cry on the pipes. It fits quite well.

Chorus 3 times

Verse 4:
RS:Time for me to go now
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:It's really time for me to go now
JS:Reggae Spoons
RS:But me want you all to buy me record called
JS:Reggae Spoons.

Chorus 5 times to end.

Transcribed by David Linley (dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
on 29th November 1995. Comments or mistakes to the address above.