Harry Belafonte

Matilda

Harry Belafonte

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Matilda

Written by Harry Belafonte/Harry Thomas

Key:  C More
Matilda Key GG
Matilda Key G#G#
Matilda Key AA
Matilda Key A#A#(one step down)
Matilda Key BB(half step down)
Matilda Key CC(original key)
Matilda Key C#C#(half step up)
Matilda Key DD(one step up)
Matilda Key D#D#
Matilda Key EE
Matilda Key FF
Matilda Key F#F#
	  		Harry Belafonte 


     C        F        G7           C       G7        C       G7  C 
Hey! Matilda, Matilda, Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 

Once again now! 
C        F        G7           C       G7        C       G7 C   
Matilda, Matilda, Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 

             C 
Five hundred dollars, friends, I lost: 
G7         F 
Woman even sell me cat and horse! 
      G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Heya! Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 


Everybody! 
 C 
(Matilda,) Sing out the Chorus, 
 F 
(Matilda,) Sing a little louder, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 


Once again now! 
 C 
(Matilda,) Going 'round the corner, 
 F 
(Matilda,) Sing out the Chorus, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 

                       C 
Well, the money was to buy me house an' lan' 
         F 
Then she got a serious plan, 

A-hey, ah! 
G7           C       G7        C       GY C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 


Everybody! 
C 
(Matilda, 
F 
Matilda, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.) 


Once again now! 
 C 
(Matilda,) Going 'round the corner, 
 F 
(Matilda, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.) 

                    C 
Well, the money was just inside me bed, 
              F  
Stuck up in a pillow beneath me head. 

Don't you know, 
G7           C        G7         
Matilda, she found me money and... 

Everybody... 
 C 
(Matilda, 
F 
Matilda, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.) 


Once again now! 
 C 
(Matilda,) Hooma locka chimba, 
 F 
(Matilda,) Bring me little water, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 


Women over forty? 
 C 
(Matilda, 
F 
Matilda, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.) 


Everybody! 
 C 
(Matilda,) Goin' round the corner, 
 F 
(Matilda,) Bring me little water, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 

                  C 
Well, me friends, never to love again, 
       F 
All me money gone in vain! 

Uh, heya... 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela. 


Everybody! 
 C 
(Matilda, 
F 
Matilda,) Oom, ba-locka-chimba! 
 G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
(Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.) 


Sing a little softer! 
 C 
(Matilda, 
F 
Matilda, 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.) 


EVERYBODY! 
 C 
(Matilda, 
F 
Matilda,) Sing out the Chorus! 
G7           C       G7        C       G7 C 
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela! 
		  

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