Mama africa
1983
01. Mama Africa
02. Glasshouse
03. Not Gonna Give It Up
04. Stop That Train
05. Johnny B Goode
06. Where You Gonna Run
07. Peace Treaty
08. Feel No Way
09. Maga Dog
Mama Africa (haut
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(CHORUS)
Mama Africa
How are you doing Mama
Mama Africa
Long time me no see you Mama
They took me away from you Mama
Long before I was born
They took me away from you Mama
Long before I came on in
CHORUS
There's so many things about you
Wondering where you are
They try their best to hide you Mama
But I search and I find you
CHORUS
In you there's so much beauty
In you there's so much life
In you there's so many kingdoms
To me it's out of sight
CHORUS
You're the maker of gold Mama
You're the maker of diamond
You're the maker of pearls
And the maker of all precious goals
CHORUS
I've been waiting, yearning, looking
Searching to find you
I've been crying, praying hoping
That I may find you Mama
CHORUS
You're my mother Africa
You're my father Africa
CHORUS I'm proud of you Mama
I love you Mama
I'm proud of you Mama
I love you heavenly
CHORUS
Glasshouse (haut de page)
CHORUS
If you live in a glasshouse
Don't throw stones
And if you can't take blows brother
Don't throw blows
Harm no man
Let no man harm you
Do unto others
As they would do to you
And to every baldhead
Respect the Rastaman
Cause he's the only man left on creation
CHORUS
Cos cos to see I
Looking so humble
Would you like to try something
But your world would a crumble
Caught behind I back
You lied to grumble
And before I face
You always a fumble
CHORUS
You build your world on lies and illusions
But you never know that
This is the conclusion
No chance no hope for those
Who kept it a goin'
'Cause you never know that
The truth is showing
CHORUS
I'm on this earth
To give Jah praise
And all I ask for
Is longer days
I come to do the things that are right
And if you don't like my do it we're gonna fight
CHORUS
Not Gonna Give It Up (haut de page)
CHORUS
I'm not gonna give it up
I'm not goin'
I'm not gonna give it up
I'm not goin'
I will be fighting
I've got to be fighting
I will be fighting
Til Africa
And Africans are free
I said that I been up there
And I've seen poverty beyond compare
I know slave drivers just don't care
They just don't care
CHORUS
Africa's the richest place
But it has the poorest race
And to me it's just a disgrace
Just a disgrace
Africans don't wait too long
We gotta fight 'cause it's not wrong
Won't you join in and sing this song
Sing this song
CHORUS
To be poor it's a hurtful pain
Livin inna poverty it's a burning shame
Help yourself 'cause man you're not lame
You are not lame
CHORUS
Stop That Train
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Stop that Train
I'm a leaving...
And it won't be too long
Whether I'm right or wrong
(CHORUS)
All my life
I've been the lonely man
Teachin people that don't overstand
And even though I try my best
I still don't find no happiness
CHORUS
Some goin' east
And a some goin' west
I see some stand aside
Just to try their best
And I say some livin' big
But the most them livin' small
And they can't even find
No No No food at all
CHORUS
Stop that train
Can't take dem ya pressure...
Johnny B Goode (haut de page)
Deep down in Jamaica close to Mandeville
Back up in the woods on top of a hill
There stood an old hut made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B Goode
He never learned to read and a write so well
But he could play his guitar like ringing a bell yell
CHORUS (we all know this)
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Sitting in a tree in the railroad track
Old engineer in the train sitting in the shade
Strummin' with the rhythm that them drivers made
People passing by would stop and say
Oh my oh my what the boy can play
CHORUS
Mama said son you gotta be a man
You gotta be the leader of a reggae band
People coming in from miles around
To hear you play until the sun goes down
Boy someday your name will be in the lights
Saying Johnny B Goode tonight
CHORUS
Where You Gonna Run
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de page)
Where you gonna run
Where you gonna hide
Who you tryin to see
What you tryin to find
CHORUS
We're all in this race
Everybody trying to keep a pace
Can't get away
No no, there is no escape
The world is faced with problems
And many illusions
Love is the man overstanding
It's the only solution
CHORUS
People walking around in disguise
Try to tell me what they're trying to hide
'Cause what you're looking for
It stay here with you all the time
The world is faced with problems
And many illusions
Love is the man overstanding
It's the only solution
CHORUS
Peace Treaty
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de page)
Do you remember the peace treaty
You sign in a kill some city
Do you remember the peace treaty
Them sign in a kill some city
And now this one have a gun
And this one have a gun when it pass law
Babylon Run
And this one have a gun
And this one have a gun when it pass soldier run
All who signed that peace treaty
Now rest in peace in the cemetery
All who signed that peace treaty
Is now resting in peace in the cemetery
And this one have a gun
And that one have a gun when it pass everyone run
I say this one have a gun
And that one have a gun when it drop another weakheart drop
Because of the words I say
Dem say di bwai shoot I head
Because of the truth I say
Babylon wish me fi dead
When you sign that peace treaty
I told you it wouldn't worky worky
When you sign that peace treaty
I told them it could not worky worky
And now this one have a gun
And that one have a gun when it pass law, law, Babylon run
And this one have a gun
And that one have a gun
When it pop,somebody drop
And that was the peace treaty
Them sign in a kill some shitty
It was a peace treaty
Them sign in a Kingston city
And now this one have a gun
And that one have a gun when it pass law, law, Babylon run
And now this one have a gun
And that one have a gun when it pass law, law, Babylon run
But killers have no pity...
It was the peace treaty them sign in a the city...
Light the chalice
Sign the treaty
You still carry malice
Feel No Way (haut de page)
Nobody feel no way
It's coming close to payday I say
Nobody feel no way
Everyman get paid a quota's work this day
CHORUS (2x)
Can I plant peas and reap rice
Can I plant cocoa and reap yam
Can I plant turnip and reap tomato
Can I plant breadfruit and reap potato
CHORUS
Can I tell lie and hear truth
Can I live bad and love good
Can I deliver and get down
Can I give a dollar and want a pound
CHORUS
Can I be wrong and get right?
Can I be kicked and don't fight?
Can I drink water and get drunk?
Can I drink whiskey and stay sober?
Maga Dog
(haut
de page)
Sorry fi Maga Dog
Him turn around bite you
And if you jump outta fryin pan
I know you jump inna fire yeah
See you come from country in a country chuk
Tell me say you a look a likkle wuk
Gal go weh from dey
Me no wan' fe see you 'round here
Chorus
When I were with you look how you big and fat
Now you look like a real wet rat
Gal, go weh from me
Me no wan' fe see you 'round here
Chorus
Me jus' a do wha' me hafi do
Me no ha nothin' more fi do with you
And if you know wha' me know
You galang go turn poppy-show
Chorus
Your father gi' you money fi buy piece of land
You take your father money and buy obeah man
But a young nay like you
Should be cut with a filing tool
Chorus
Multitudinous Thanks to E.I. and K.G. for lyrical interpretation of this song