Swimming Against The Tide [Gypsy]

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SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE
By Gypsy
Arranged by Pelham Goddard & Gypsy
Album: "Man and Time," T&T 1995

Be careful what you do when you do what you do
Be careful what you do, I’m warning you
Careful what you do when you do what you do
There’s a consequence to what you do
Careful what you do when you do what you do
Careful what you do, I’m warning you
Be careful what you do when you do what you do
There’s a consequence to what you do…Ey!

Mama used to warn you and Papa warned you too
But you never listened anyway, you just did what you want to do
And you said that you’ll be all right, you said you’ll be OK
But what you sow you have to reap, son, and when you work you must get pay
Now you on the open ocean of life and you running out of gas
And your horizon seems to be much too far and you moving much too fast…Ey!

And you swimming against the tide, oh brother, how you swimming against the tide
And you have to go along if only for the ride, swimming against the tide…Ey
You swimming against the tide, look, you swimming against the tide
And you going along now if only for the ride, swimming against the tide

Careful what you do when you do what you do
Be careful what you do, I’m warning you
Be careful what you do when you do what you do
There’s a consequence to what you do.

Despite your Sunday teaching, yet you let it go to waste
You join an army of destruction, son, and let evil take its place
Now you’re a raggamuffin soldier in a funny kind of war
You don’t know who you are fighting against or what you're fighting for
You are on the open ocean of life and you running out of gas
And your horizon seems to be oh so far and you moving much too fast…oh brother

You swimming against the tide, I watch you swimming against the tide
And you going along if only for the ride, swimming against the tide…woh oh woh
You swimming against the tide, brother, you swimming against the tide
And you have to go along if only for the ride, swimming against the tide…woh oh woh

Careful what you do when you do what you do
Be careful what you do, I’m warning you
Be careful what you do when you do what you do
There’s a consequence to what you do..yeah, yeah, yeah

Brother, I never thought I’d live to see you crying
Brother, I never thought I’d see you walk the streets
And I pray to God there’s something I can do to help you
But you never listen when I preach, you never learn the things I teach
Now you’re way beyond, you’re way beyond, you’re way beyond my reach

Swimming against the tide, brother, you’re swimming against the tide
And you have to go along now if only for the ride, swimming against the tide…look, I watch you
Swimming against the tide, brother, you swimming against the tide
And you’re going along now if only for the ride, swimming against the tide…woh brother

Well, you swimming and you swimming and you swimming
And you swimming and you swimming and you going nowhere
You swimming and you swimming and you swimming and you swimming
You don’t care how you get there, brother
You swimming against the tide, you swimming against the tide
And you have to go along now if only for the ride, swimming against the tide
Well, you swimming against the tide, God know, you swimming against the tide
And I watch you go along if only for the ride, swimming against the tide
Swimming against the tide, feel so sorry, you swimming against the tide
I look on helplessly, oh my brother, you’re swimming against the tide.

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N.B. The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Gypsy.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare