Third World People

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Third world people
 Remember where ya comin' from
 Third world people
 Know where you belong
 Mother Country, Mother Country
 We 'ave been told
 That it's England, France, Germany, Portugal
 Since the days of old
 But I know that
 Life could not start in a refrigerator
 Has to be in an incubator
 So mark I words
 Mark these words
 Well - I'n'I could never be the Third
 Third world people
 Remember where ya comin' from
 Third world people
 Know where you belong
 Father Country, my father country!
 I've been told, time and time again
 Says America, France, Germany, Portugal
 Netherlands, Italy or Spain
 But I know that it's
 Hungry Europe, Barren Asia
 And Bountiful Africa
 So you see
 Now you know who is first
 Well - I'n'I could never be the worst
 Third world people
 Remember where ya comin' from
 Third world people
 Know where you belong
 Ooooooooooh
 Ooooooooooh
 Ooooooooooh
 OOOOOOOOOOh
 They want to keep you down in perpetual
 Insecurity, ignorance and poverty
 By keeping the pressure on the innocent ones
 Continually
 This can't go oooon!
 Third world people
 I'n'I - Remember where ya comin' from
 Bona fide, dis - Third world people
 Know where you belong
 Ooooooooooh
 Ooooooooooh
 Ooooooooooh
 Ooooooooooh
 Civilisation did not go up the Nile
 It went down the Nile
 And it reached Europe last
 So if you not 'ave the roots
 You just can't know the
 Just can't know the truth, now
 Africa - my country, my land
 Africa - where the plants come from, I love to be
 Africa - our wonderful Africa
 Where the gold comes from
 The diamonds come from
 The platinum, the lignum, the oil, the rubber
 Ya name it
 We got it, we got it, we got it, we got it
 Ooooooooooh
 Ooooooooooh (Repeat until fade)
 (Break)
 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

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Duration
04:20
Key
9
Tempo
125 BPM

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