I will not forget over the years a bere exploitation and penalization
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We look pon dem, black people, and say a full time, you know
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Fi certain things stop
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So, we ask dem!
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And sing
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no respect the youth dem from the ghetto
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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Like dem no due no respect to the nigga
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And lef' the youth dem inna pain and sorrow
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Why dem teach we fi beg and borrow?
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Give we alcohol fi make we inside hollow
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Give we cocaine fi make we smoke and paro
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Teach we fi beg, and dem teach we fi borrow
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Give we gun fi lick out we owna brother’s marrow
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Marcus a prophet, and me nah stop say so
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Heaven inna sky, and me know say it no go so
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We are all one blood, me nah stop say so
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Unity in strength, me nah stop say so
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Unuh sing!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no respect the youth dem from the ghetto
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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Like dem no due no respect to the nigga
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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Eeh!
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Hear how me look pon dem and tell dem say again
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Watch this!
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Wha' me say?!
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Brainwashed education, true dem waan we get slain
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Dem release the chain and still a use dem brain
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Economical slavery have we under big shame
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A x-amount of life just a go down the drain
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Dem take the ice, dem take the pool, and dem take all we grain
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Change we time, change we ways, and change all we name
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But when dem see the Prophet, a me dem cyan tame
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'Cause me no smoke dem cocaine, me no drink dem champagne
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Yes, a wicked Babylonian, unuh cyan blow mi brain
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And nuff of dem a gwan like dem waan take we fame
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Mi sing
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no respect the youth dem from the ghetto
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no due no respect to the nigga
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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He-He-He-He-Hear how me look pon dem and tell dem say again
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I sing!
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I say, dem crucify Christ, it wasn’t a nice thing to do
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Fight 'gainst Selassie and it 'cause big trouble
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You know the sky, and the earth, and the sea trembled
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I nah forget dem turn dem back pon Paul Bogle
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And the one Sam Sharpe, and the one Nanny too
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Dem cut off Tacky’s head and sell out Gordon
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And anuh joke me a make, a one serious something
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And a full time we know we selves, black people
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And sing
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no respect the youth dem from the ghetto
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no due no respect to the nigga
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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I, eh-eh-eh-eh!
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I look pon dem and tell dem
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I sing, I sing!
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Fires and flame, mi say, pon the heathens
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Fi how dem corrupted all the children
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Hand dem all type of blood money fi spend
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Teach dem fi borrow and teach dem fi lend
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And give dem the coke, and kill out Ishens
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And give dem the hog dem fi nyam, inna the pen
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And give dem the '16 and the MAC-10
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And make dem go a road and shoot down dem owna friend
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Me a beg the whole of dem fi help out the youth dem
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And sing
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no respect the youth dem from the ghetto
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no due no respect to the nigga
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And leave the youth dem inna pain and sorrow
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Why dem teach we fi beg and go borrow?
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Give we alcohol fi make we inside hollow
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Give we cocaine fi make we smoke and paro
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Give we gun fi lick out we owna brother’s marrow
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Marley a prophet, and me nah stop say so
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Marcus a prophet, and me nah stop say so
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We are all one blood, we nah stop say so
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Unity in strength, and we nah stop say so
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Heaven inna sky, and me know say it no go so
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Unuh sing say!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no respect the youth dem from the ghetto
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Unuh, ask dem!
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How dem a gwan like dem good so?
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And dem no due no respect to the nigga
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Unuh, ask dem! |