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Verse 1
(G major) Wooo!
Lord, know 'bout yu country
You 'affi know 'bout yu country
(C major) Early B say (G major) yu 'affi 'bout yu country
Well (C major) hear mi now (G major) Jamaica
Verse 2
is an island in the Caribbean (C major) Sea
(G major) Between latitude seven
teen (C major) and eighteen
A (G major) seven hundred miles south (C major) of Miami
(G major) A four thousand square miles (C major) of property
(G major) The hardest part fi reach
that a (C major) blue moun (G major) tain peak
I tell yu that a seven thousand
(C major) four hundred feet
(G major) Well I Early B, yur (C major) mic MC
(G major) A tell yu 'bout the ting called
Ja (C major) maican (G major) history (C major)
(G major) Say Columbus leaves Spain (C major) (G major) 1493
Say one year after made a (C major) discovery
(G major) The Penn and Venables
captures (C major) the country
(G major) Port Royal became the world richest city
A dis where Henry Morgan
come and (C major) hide the (G major) treasury
In 1833 dem ab (C major) olish (G major) slavery (C major)
(G major) The English fight the maroons
and them (C major) sign a (G major) treaty (C major)
(G major) The first politician was (C major) Busta' and Manley
(G major) The first great cricketer
a George (C major) (G major) Headley (C major) (G major)
'62 was independence fi (C major) all Jamaic (C minor) ans
(G major) The first festival song was (C major) What A (G major) Bam (C major) Bam
(G major) It done by the triple Toots (C major) & The Maytals
You (G major) 'affi know 'bout yu country
You 'affi know 'bout yu country
Well hear me now
Me say outa 21 and now at (C major) (G major) 22
Twenty two years of ages
our likkle island
Thanks to all heroes, all (C major) politi (G major) cians
Me say all sportsmen and all musicians
All factory workers and all
(C major) farmers (G major) 'pon the (C major) land
(G major) Say 1962 a big (C major) celeb (G major) ration
(C major) (G major) Say black, gold and green flag,
the Queen of England
Eternal Father we national song
Say ackee and salt fish, ba (C major) nana and yam
(G major) Say 1966 with Toots
to the (C major) fest (G major) ival song (C major)
(G major) That this year Selassie visits our island
When you want know history,
me say (C major) check I- man
(G major) Me name Early B di born (C major) doctor- man
And (G major) know me come like a
history (C major) and love (G major) mi God
You 'affi know 'bout yu country
You 'affi know 'bout yu country,
irrribibang!
Me we talk 'bout Jamaica
Lord mi God, a dis ya sweet, sweet,
sweet, sweet Ja (C minor) maica (G major)
(C minor) 'Cause (G major) me say, Jamaica,
the (C minor) land a weh we love
(G major) We love it 'pon the low and
deh we (C minor) love it from above
So mek we talk (G major) 'bout we coun (C minor) try
Say Early B (G major) mek we talk 'bout we country
(C minor) Yo hear me, Dread
(G major) Jamaica is an island in the
Caribbean Sea
Between latitude seventeen (C major) and (G major) eighteen
A seven hundred miles south of Miami
A four thousand square miles of property
The hardest part fi reach
that a (B major) blue mountain peak
(G major) I tell you that a seven thousand
(B major) four hundred feet
(G major) Well I Early B, your (B major) mic MC
(G major) A tell you 'bout the ting
called Ja (B major) maican history
(G major) So we talk about we country
Lord, mi (G major) God we 'affi talk 'bout we country
I know we free, I know we nice,
I know we (G major) irie
Around the microphone
this is the doctor Early B
(G major) I know we a talk 'bout
the good history
About our country in the Caribbean Sea
History Of Jamaica
Early B
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