Key: E major•
Verse 1
give the children some rice and peas
These things we've been eating
from the beginning of time
What you want to do with
the end of the line?
Some people nah make no
rice and peas no more
Some people nah make no
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rice and peas no more
B
A
It's been a couple years or more,
I sing
Yam and bananas and things like these
the ketchup and cheese
B
E
Let them hold on to their culture
Anyhow they lose it, dem in a big danger
So hold on to your culture
Don't become no cultural stranger
Some people a go round and
they ain't got no culture
B
E
Come in like a dead meat and
it can help you in your future
No bother to diss out your ancestor
E
B
E
Like the green bananas and yam
They're full of vitamins and
they're full of iron
And they make your body fit
We no just have to read them by chance
It's something that we're
born with in our genes
B
E
So we no dance like
Mr
Bean
B
E
B
E
Now you mean hold on to your culture
Any who you lose it do in a big danger
So hold on to your culture
Don't become no cultural stranger
Dem haffi know who they are
B
E
and where they came from
B
E
It might a answer the question
where they belong
B
E
In a school dem nuh get
culture education
It's only
Queen
Victoria and
Napoleon
Marcus
Garvey him never mention
They never tell you every
black man was
African
She never ever tell you about the plantation
B
E
To make me hysteria,
mystery what's the plan
Africans
Oh lord, say your culture
Anyhow you lose it you in a big danger
Say oh lord, say your culture
Don't become no cultural stranger
All me ancestors who were so brave
I must apologise for the
way we a behave
Mentally we still a go on like slave
Some a we a go on like we fi live in a cave
But the real thing the whole
a we just a crave
Brother killin' brother with
people a get fraid
Marcus
Gabby must be turnin' in his grave
Sister
Nanny must be turnin' in her grave
The great
Shaka
Zulu must be turnin' in his grave
And
Malcolm
X must be turnin' in his grave
Over the way we a behave
Me say hold on to your culture
And the how you lose it too in a big danger
Say hold on to your culture
Don't become no cultural stranger
Say hold on to your culture
B
E
Anyhow you lose it you in a big danger
Say hold on to your culture
Don't become no vulture or stranger
Hold on to your culture
Hold on to your culture
Hold on to your culture
Hold on to your culture
I'll see you next time.
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