Well, some people
like to dismiss slavery
like it was nothing
But you see, slavery,
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
Some people just don't want to know
About four hundred years ago
But the thing about slavery,
it's affecting people now
I tell you no lie,
when I see a film about slavery,
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
Mysteriously, I and I has returned
as the big Rastaman Maccabi
See, 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?
What about when the ship overload
and it throw them overboard?
Oh, I can see the effects of slavery
still inna the community
No identity, suffering from amnesia,
a case of lost memory
Black man and woman,
can't you see your history
never start on the plantation?
Original man, man of creation,
father of our nation
Just stay strong,
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,
to the almighty one
You are part of a great nation
Man, what about all the
mothers that cried?
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?
Don't know from where you came,
you don't even know your name
Aided and abetted by some
unscrupulous African
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
Compensation was never refused,
their own land they even got to choose
So what's wrong with us?
Was the black holocaust
not so serious?
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
Some people just don't want to know
about 400 years ago
But the thing about slavery,
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?
What about when the ship overload
and they throw them overboard?
What about all the mothers that cried
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
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
you don't know from where you came
you don't even know your name
Rastafari
