Jimmy Cliff - Third World People
Remember where you comin' from
Third world people!
Know where you belong
Mother country, mother country
We have been told
That it's England, France, Germany, Portugal
Since the days of old - but I know that
Life could not start in a refrigerator
It had to be in an incubator
So mark I words, mark these words
For I and I could never be the third
Third world people!
Remember where you comin' from
Third world people!
Know where you belong
Father country, I father country
I've been told time and time again
That is America, France, Germany, Portugal
Netherlands, Italy or Spain
But I know that it's
Hungry Europe, barren Asia
And bountiful Africa
So you see, now you know who is first, well
For I and I could never be the worst
Third world people!
Remember where you comin' from
Third world people!
Know where you belong
Oh! Oh-oh-oh! Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
Oh! Oh-oh-oh! Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
They wanna keep you down in perpetual
Insecurity, ignorance and poverty
By keeping down-pressure
On the innocent ones continually
This can't go on!
First world people! I and I!
Remember where you comin' from
First world people!
Know where you belong
Oh! Oh-oh-oh! Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
Oh! Oh-oh-oh! Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
Civilization did not go up the Nile
It went down the Nile
And it reached Europe last
So if you not have the roots
Just can't know, you just can't know the truth now
Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
Hear what I say!
Hear what I say now!
Oh! Oh-oh-oh!
Europe for the Europeans, I say
Asia for the Asians
Africa for the Africans
Those at home and abroad
Africa! Where the gods love to be
Africa! Where the gods come from
Bountiful, oh bountiful Africa!
Where the gold comes from
The diamonds come from
The platinum, the lignum
The oil, the rubber
You name it, we got it
We got it, we got it, we got it..
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