Bunny Wailer - Slave Driver

Slave driver, your table is turn;
Catch your fire, you're gonna get burned.
Slave driver, your table is turn;
Catch your fire: you're gonna get burned.

Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalized our very soul.
They may say that we are free,
Only to be chained in poverty.
Said I know that it's illiteracy;
'Cause dem ya people dem nuh make money.

Slave driver, your table is turn.
Catch your fire, you're gonna get burned.
Slave driver, your table is turn;
Catch your fire: you're gonna get burned.

Ev'ry little time I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
Then I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalized our very soul.
Today they say that we are free,
Only to be chained in dis ya poverty.
Said I know that it's illiteracy;
'Cause dem ya people dem nuh make money, ooh!

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Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalized our very soul.
Today they say that we are free,
Only to be chained ina poverty.
Said I know that it's illiteracy;
Dem ya people dem nuh make money.

Slave driver, your table is turn.
Catch your fire, you're gonna get burned.
Slave driver, your table is turn;
So catch your fire, fire, fire, fire:
You're gonna get burned.

Slave driver, your table is turn.
Common, catch your fire, it's your turn,
To get burned.
Slave driver, your table is turn;
Catch your fire: you're gonna get burned.

Note:

This song is a cover released in 1981.
The original was by Bob Marley & The Wailers and first released in 1973.
It has also been covered by Dennis Brown, who released it in 1979.

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