| Some people nah make nuh rice and peas no more
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| Some people nah make nuh rice and peas no more
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| It’s been a couple of years or more
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| Since a piece a' yam come through that door
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| Some people nah make nuh rice and peas no more
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| I sing:
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| Some a' di youts nah get nuh rice and peas
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| Yam and bananas and tings like these
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| Dem a-get di beef burger with the ketchup and cheese
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| Well, I’m begging all the parents: Please
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| Let them hold on to their culture
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| Any a' dem lose it dem inna big danger
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| Say hold on to your culture
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| Don’t become nuh cultural stranger
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| Some people a-go 'round
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| And they ain’t got nuh culture
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| Coming like a dead meat
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| A-wait for di vulture
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| Learn from di past
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| It can help inna yuh future
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| out yuh ancestor
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| Take fuh instance di food that we nyam
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| Like the green bananas and yam
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| Them full a' vitamins
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| And they full of iron
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| And they make yuh body fit
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| And make yuh 'trong
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| Take fuh instance di way dat we dance
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| How we know di riddim by chance
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| How supp’m dat we born with
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| Inna wi genes
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| So we nuh dance like Mr. Bean
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| Now ya mean
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| Hold on to your culture
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| Any a' you lose it you inna big danger
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| Say hold on to your culture
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| Don’t become nuh cultural stranger
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| Dem haffi know who dey are
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| And whe' dey came from
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| It might a-answer the question
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| Where dey belong
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| Inna school dem get
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| Culture education
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| It’s only Queen Victoria
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| And Napoleon
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| Marcus Garvey
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| Dey never mention
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| Dey never tell yuh every Black man
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| Was African
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| Dey never ever tell yuh
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| 'Bout di plantation
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| To make mi history a mystery
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| Was the plan
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| Africans:
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| Hold on to your culture
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| Any a' you lose it you inna big danger
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| Say hold on to your culture
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| Don’t become nuh cultural stranger
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| All mi ancestors
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| Were so brave
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| I muss apologize
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| For the way we a-behave
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| Mentally we still a-gwaan like slave
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| Some a' wi a-gwaan like we fi live in a cave
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| Material things a we just a-crave
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| Bruddah killin' bruddah
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| Wit' di gun and di blade
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| come a dance
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| People a-get 'fraid
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| Marcus Garvey must be turnin' in his grave
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| must be turnin' in her grave
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| The great Shaka Zulu must be turnin' in his grave and
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| Malcolm X must be turnin' in his grave
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| Over di way we a-behave
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| Mi seh hold on to your culture
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| Any a' you lose it you inna big danger
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| Say hold on to your culture
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| Don’t become nuh cultural stranger
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| Seh hold on to your culture
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| Any a' you lose it you inna big danger
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| Say hold on to your culture
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| Don’t become nuh cultural stranger
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| (Hold on to your culture)
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| (Hold on to your culture)
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| (Hold on to your culture)
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| (Hold on to your culture)
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| (Hold on to your culture)
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| (Hold on to your culture) |