Key: G# minor
Verse 1
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Now go to Africa again, watch dis!
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Verse 2
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Black star line it's the
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and free your mind
Verse 3
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Black star line it's the black star line
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Everybody come aboard
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and free your mind
black star line
Everybody come aboard
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and free your mind
Verse 5
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Black star line it's the black star line
and free your mind
Verse 6
the black star line that's
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leavin' at nine
Here's a paid ticket so you can
free your mind
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Grab the black babies it's time to build
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we got a mental ship
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somethin' like Noah's ark
now let's set sail
flowin' on a positive trip
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Verse 9
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a trip for the chosen few..
Verse 10
upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa,
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one more time
Goin' to Africa,
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one more time
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Goin' to Africa, one more time
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Form a line- ah,
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upon the black star liner
Goin' to Africa, one more time, true!
Let me tell you bout Marcus Garvey
Born in Jamaica, God left him in country
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He go to America to make
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black people free
He walk around low and just
try make money
wan gonna be
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Young nasty and just licky licky
Or peace around it,
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and dem sparkle up him say
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I just light up, make the first hungry
Form a line- ah, upon the
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Goin' to Africa, one more time
Form a line- ah,
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upon the black star liner
Brand Nubian! tell dem one more time
As we look to the stars,
they take ours
Yeah we got fly cars but you can
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live in four wheels?
We need new approaches,
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old style is null and void
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Makes me paranoid, to think
That we own the whole ocean yet we
can't even drink
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so we got you a means
Of transportation,
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for the Nubian na tion
Marcus Garvey had the
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idea back in the days
Doin for self, keepin' the wealth
I gotta add on and create
Though the devil thinks it's not the
latest fashion
Navigatin' lost,
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Verse 13
and free your mind
black star line
Everybody come aboard
Verse 14
and free your mind
Verse 15
Everybody come aboard
Verse 16
arms will be raised for the tom- toms
Push up ya arm they call ya
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proud to be black
Call me proud to be black,
cause I'm not tryin' to fuck
When I'm proud to be black,
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I'm not some young eedyot
When I'm proud to be black,
no dem- dem dem- dem dem- dem
Never know they wickedness they
haffa come to an end
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Don't take a no fey word for de
white boy dem
Awayaa tell me,
all you get in de end
Awayaa tell me, all you get isa dem
Awayaa tell me,
all you get more den dey spend
C'mon, tell de world black
man entertainer
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Rock dem one and rock entertained
Push up ya arm they call ya
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proud to be black
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to the one Marcus Garvey
Nuff respect to Red Foxx
Sting international in the house
Dave Kennedy on the boards
Knowhati'msayin? the one Rafael
Verse 18
Yeah, yaknowhati'msayin? mark the
spark is in the house
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And umm, this how we work out
Outro 1
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