Kunci: D minor•
Verse 1
Dm
Gm
Well, some people
Dm
like to dismiss slavery
like it was nothing
But you see, slavery,
Gm
Dm
it can never be forgotten
Some people not gonna like what me say
But me a go say it anyway
We a go talk about slavery
and the effects of it today
Am
Dm
Some people just don't want to know
About four hundred years ago
Gm
But the thing about slavery,
Am
it's affecting people now
when I see a film about slavery,
Am
Dm
water comes to my eye
You wanna know why?
Because it was me
I'm the same black man
hanging in that tree, you see
They couldn't control my soul,
so they had to control my body
Gm
Mysteriously, I and I has returned
Am
Dm
as the big Rastaman Maccabi
Am
See, what about all the
What about the black holocaust?
What about African slavery
and what it's done to you and me?
What about all the blood that was shed?
What about the innocent dead?
Gm
What about when the ship overload
Am
and it throw them overboard?
Dm
Oh, I can see the effects of slavery
Dm
No identity, suffering from amnesia,
Gm
Dm
can't you see your history
never start on the plantation?
Gm
Original man, man of creation,
let go the brainwashed mentality
Nuh go on like nuh
Babylonian, the road is long
You're gonna meet a lot of obstacles,
nuh bow to the temptation
Run see your time,
tell the boy if he go away
You nah inna nothing with him plan
Hold up your hand,
You are part of a great nation
Dm
Am
Man, what about all the
What about all the children that died?
What about all the suicide
and the pain we feel inside?
What about all the shackles
and chain?
What about the messing
up of the brain?
Gm
Don't know from where you came,
Am
Dm
you don't even know your name
Gm
Aided and abetted by some
Dm
A hundred million is the estimation
that died on the crossing
or the plantation with no
compensation
Holocaust is a word that they use for what the
Nazis did to the Jews
Gm
Compensation was never refused,
Am
Dm
their own land they even got to choose
So what's wrong with us?
Was the black holocaust
Gm
Dm
Gm
Dm
not so serious?
Am
Dm
Some people not gonna like what me say,
but me a go say it anyway
We a go talk about slavery
and the effects of it today
Gm
Some people just don't want to know
Am
Dm
about 400 years ago
Gm
But the thing about slavery,
Am
Dm
it's affecting people now
What about all the lives that
were lost?
What about the black holocaust?
What about African slavery
and what it's done to you and me?
What about all the blood that was shed?
What about the innocent dead?
Gm
What about when the ship overload
Am
Dm
and they throw them overboard?
Gm
What about all the mothers that cried
Dm
Am
Dm
What about all the children that died
Gm
What about all the suicide
Dm
and the pain we feel inside
What about all the shackles and chain
E
Dm
What about the messing
up of the brain
Gm
Don't know from where you came
Dm
You don't even know your name
You don't know from where you came
You don't even know your name
you don't know from where you came
you don't even know your name
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