AKWASTAR - BOB

REDEMTION SONG

Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the ’and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
’cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
’cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfil de book.

Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
’cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

ZIMBABWE

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we’ll fight this little struggle,
’cause that’s the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We gon’ fight (we gon’ fight), we’ll have to fight (we gon’ fight),
We gonna fight (we gon’ fight), fight for our rights!

Natty dread it in-a (zimbabwe);
Set it up in (zimbabwe);
Mash it up-a in-a zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate (zimbabwe), yeah.

No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary,
’cause I don’t want my people to be contrary.

And, brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We’ll ’ave to fight (we gon’ fight), we gonna fight (we gon’ fight)
We’ll ’ave to fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!

Mash it up in-a (zimbabwe);
Natty trash it in-a (zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
I’n’i a-liberate zimbabwe.

(brother, you’re right,) you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We gon’ fight (we gon’ fight), we’ll ’ave to fight (we gon’ fight),
We gonna fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!

To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm - there beats a heart.
So soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don’t want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.

Brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We’ll ’ave to fight (we gon’ fight), we gonna fight (we gon’ fight),
We’ll ’ave to fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!

Natty trash it in-a zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Mash it up in-a zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Set it up in-a zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Natty dub it in-a zimbabwe (zimbabwe).

Set it up in-a zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate zimbabwe (zimbabwe);
Every man got a right to decide his own destiny.

AFRICA UNITE

Africa, unite
’cause we’re moving right out of babylon
And we’re going to our father’s land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all africans, yeah
As it’s been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the rastaman
We are the children of the higher man

Africa, unite ’cause the children wanna come home
Africa, unite ’cause we’re moving right out of babylon
And we’re grooving to our father’s land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all rastaman, yeah

As it’s been said already let it be done, yeah
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the rastaman
We are the children of the higher man

So, africa, unite, africa, unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it’s later than you think

Unite for the benefit of your children
Unite for it’s later than you think
Africa awaits it’s creators, africa awaiting it’s creators
Africa, you’re my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the africans abroad, unite for the africans a yard
Africa, unite

WAR

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory

Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah! /fadeout/