Badder Than You

My Destiny

My Destiny
Natalyah
Key: C#m
Tempo: 108
Number: 9
Book: Badder than You
Copyright: ©2018 Modern Dancehall

Intro:
A  E  B  (4x)

Verse 1:
F#m                         C#m              B
I wake up one morning and I decide I singing Soca
F#m                    C#m                     B
I believe it was my calling and it was my destiny
F#m                          C#m              B
Begin to jump on stage and I bussing tune all over
F#m                 C#m             B
Then I realize that it come so naturally
F#m                   C#m
Soca free up body and soul
B                      F#m
Shine like diamond, ruby and gold
C#m
Making people jumping up, people wining up
B                  F#m
That is my supreme goal
C#m
From Jouvert morn to last lap
B               F#m
I making mas non stop
C#m            B
Jamming on de truck, staying on de top, I say

Chorus:
A
Anywhere I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
B                        C#m
Any cooler fete (I mashin’ up)
A
Any jam down fete (I mashin’ up)
B                         C#m
Only calling meh
A
Any fete I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
B           C#m
In the savannah (I mashin’ up)
A
In panorama (I mashin’ up)
B
Only calling meh

Interlude:
F#m  F#m  C#m  B  (2x)

Verse 2:
The isle of Trinidad is the country where I come from
It’s nature’s paradise and the nation where I was born
Where bacchanal is so palpable that it normal
And I realize that it flows so natural

Chorus:
Anywhere I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
Any cooler fete (I mashin’ up)
Any jam down fete (I mashin’ up)
Only calling meh
Any fete I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
In the savannah (I mashin’ up)
In panorama (I mashin’ up)
Only calling meh

Bridge:
B                                A
Sweet Soca, it’s the heart and life of carnival
(Making people jumping up, people wining up, that is my supreme goal)
B                                   A
Sweet Soca, it’s worth more than diamond and gold
(So I not giving up, I not going to stop, I say)

Chorus:
Anywhere I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
Any cooler fete (I mashin’ up)
Any jam down fete (I mashin’ up)
Only calling meh
Any fete I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
In the savannah (I mashin’ up)
In panorama (I mashin’ up)
Only calling meh

Chorus:
Anywhere I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
Any cooler fete (I mashin’ up)
Any jam down fete (I mashin’ up)
Only calling meh
Any fete I go yeah (I mashin’ up)
In the savannah (I mashin’ up)
Up in Moka (I mashinâ’ up)
Only calling meh

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