Africans

(album: Maestro - 1996)

Woh nah, na, na, nah, na, nigh
Woh deh deh, woh
Greetings
Is like the first good mankind
On hurt hurt ever pray to is the sun, woh, deh, deh
Den the evil priest, come with a God name atom
Atom mean one God and one God only
Rastaman discover that is three in one one in three
Blessed be on to thee only trinity, for iver, for iver
And iver more
Woh, deh deh, Lord, woh

We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, we are Africans
Free-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, free Africans
We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, we are Africans
Free-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, free Africans

Down the jungle, the quite jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
Farracan led the million man march
The lion dance tonight
Africans in America
Dem cal dem Afro-American
But the inhabitants dem fi understand
Seh America a capture land
Europe land, fi the European
And is there white man belong
Now the Indians who own the land
Lives on reservation, but

We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, woh na, na, na, na, nigh
We are Africans, woh Lord
Fr-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, woh, na, na, na, na, nigh
Free Africans
We-e-e-e-e-e-e, woh, na, na, na, na, nigh
We are Africans, Lordy, Lord
Fr-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, woh, na, na, na, nigh
Free Africans

O.J. Simpson one thing me deh warn you
Seh fi stick to your owna kind, woh
You switch from your kind
And you nearly serve time
Could a mix up inna Babylon
If you guilty you know the story
But you blessed by Selassie hands
Now you bust the case
Put a smile 'pon your face
And join repartriation
Rodney King, look how bad dem beat him
'Pon public television
Full time we get it straight
Dem no like we race
Mek we pack up and leave this place, 'cause

We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, whoa deh deh, deh deh
We are Africans, oh yes
Fr-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, woh, na, na, na, na, nigh
Free Africans
We-e-e-e-e-e-e, cha na, na, na, na, nigh
We are Africans, whoa Lord
Fr-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, pack up your chain fi you a
Free Africans

Marcus Garvey and Malcolm and Martin Luther, true black man
Oh, Hannibal and Selassie I, Mandela dem a Ethiopian
Down the jungle, the quite jungle
The lion sleep tonight, whoa
Farracon led the million man march
The lion dance tonight

We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, we are Africans, also
Fr-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, free Africans
We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e, so go deh, na, na, na, nigh
We are Africans, we all are
We-e-e-e, free Africa