Mama Africa

(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

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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

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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

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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

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I've been waiting, yearning, looking
Searching to find you
I've been crying, praying hoping
That I may find you Mama

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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

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Glasshouse

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

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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

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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

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Not gonna give it up...

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

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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

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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

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Stop that train

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

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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

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Johnny B. Goode

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

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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

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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

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Where you gonna run to?

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

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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

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Peace Treaty

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