Song: Word up
Artist: Cameo
Composers: Lawrence Ernest Blackmon
and Thomas Michael Jenkins
Album: Word up
Tabbed by: DJ 18th June 2013
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
option for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers
F#m = 244222 F# = 244322 F#7 = 242322
E = 022100 E4 = 022200 F#7sus4 = 242422
D = xx0232 A = 577655 Eadd9 = 022102
^ = Emphasise the beat
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Intro
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
| / /_/ / / | /_/ /_/ / /| / /_/ / /_/| /_/ /_/ / / |
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
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Verse 1
[F#m] [E4]
Yoh, pretty ladies, a - round the world,
[D] [E]
Got a weird thing to show you,
[F#]
So tell all the boys and girls,
[F#m] [E4]
Tell your brother, your sister, and your mama too,
[D] [E]
'Cause we're a - bout to go down,
[F#]
And you know just what to do
Verse 2
[F#m] [E4]
Wave your hands in the air like you don't care,
[D] [E] [F#]
Glide by the people as they start to look and stare,
[F#m] [E4]
Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick,
[D] [E] [F#]
Ma----ma, come on, baby, tell me what's the word?
Chorus
[F#7] [F#7sus4] [F#7] [E4] [E]
A - word up! Every - body say...
[D] [E] [F#]
When you hear the call you've got to get it under way
[F#7] [F#7sus4] [F#7] [E4] [E]
Word up! It's the code word,
[D] [Eadd9]
No matter where you say it,
[F#]
You know that you'll be heard
Verse 3
[F#m] [E4]
Now, all you sucker DJ's who think you're fly,
[D] [E] [F#]
There's got to be a reason and we know the reason why
[F#m] [E4]
You try to put on those airs, and act real cool,
[D] [Eadd9] [F#]
But you got to real-ise that you're acting like fools
Verse 4
[F#m] [E4]
Give us music, we can use it, we need to dance,
[D] [E] [F#]
We don't have that time for psycho - logical romance,
[F#m] [E4]
No ro - mance, no romance, no romance for me,
[D] [Eadd9] [F#]
Ma----ma, come on, baby, tell me what's the word?
Chorus
[F#7] [F#7sus4] [F#7] [E4] [E]
A - word up! Every - body say...
[D] [E] [F#]
When you hear the call you got to get it under way
Break
[F#] [A]
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
OW!! Dial L for...
e |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
B |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
G |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
D |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
A |-------2-0-|-----------|-------2-0-|-----------|
E |-2--2------|-2--2------|-2--2------|-2--2------|
...Low!
e |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
B |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
G |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
D |-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
A |-------2-0-|-----------|-------2-0-|-----------|
E |-2--2------|-2--2------|-2--2------|-2--2------|
Verse 5
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[F#7] [F#7sus4] [F#7] [E4] [E] [D] [D] [Eadd9]
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[F#]
Come on, all you people say...
[F#] [E] [F#] [A] [F#] [E] [F#] [A]
W - O - R - D ...UP! W - O - R - D ...UP! Hey!
[F#] [E] [F#] [A] [F#] [E] [F#] [A]
W - O - R - D ...UP! W - O - R - D ...UP! Woo!
[2 bars no chords, scrub rhythm]
N.C. [F#] [E] [F#] [A]
| / /_/ / / | /_/ /_/ / / | W - O - R - D ...UP!
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
N.C. [F#] [E] [F#] [A]
| / /_/ / / | /_/ /_/ / / | W - O - R - D ...UP!
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
Hey-----------------------------! Hey----, hey!
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
No-----,no!
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
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Hoo! Say it like that
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[F#m] [E4] [E] [D] [Eadd9] [F#]
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Coda
OW! They think real
e |-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|
B |-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|
G |-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|
D |-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|
A |-------2-0-|---------|-------2-0-|-----------|
E |-2--2------|-2--2----|-2--2------|-2--2------|
...Low! Ow! As low as you go
e |-----------|--------|-----------|-----------|
B |-----------|--------|-----------|-----------|
G |-----------|--------|-----------|-----------|
D |-----------|--------|-----------|-----------|
A |-------2-0-|--------|-------2-0-|-----------|
E |-2--2------|-2--2---|-2--2------|-2--2------|
