The Effects Of Slavery chords by
Macka B

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Gm Gm 3
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Well, some people
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like to dismiss slavery
like it was nothing
But you see, slavery,
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Dm Dm 
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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
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Dm Dm 
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Some people just don't want to know
About four hundred years ago
Gm Gm 3
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But the thing about slavery,
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it's affecting people now
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I   tell you no lie,
when I see a film about slavery,
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Dm Dm 
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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
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Mysteriously, I and  I has returned
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as the big Rastaman Maccabi
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See, what about all the
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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?
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What about when the ship overload
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and it throw them overboard?
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Oh, I can see the effects of slavery
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still inna the community
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No  identity, suffering from amnesia,
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a case of lost memory
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Black man and woman,
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can't you see your history
never start on the plantation?
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Original man, man of  creation,
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father of our nation
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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,
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to the almighty one
You are part of a great nation
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Am Am 
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Man, what about all the
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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?
Gm Gm 3
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Don't know from where you came,
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you don't even know your name
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Aided and abetted by some
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unscrupulous African
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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
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Compensation was never refused,
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their own land they even got to choose
So what's wrong with us?
Was the black holocaust
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Gm Gm 3
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Dm Dm 
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not so serious?
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Dm Dm 
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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
Gm Gm 3
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Some people just don't want to know
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Dm Dm 
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about 400 years ago
Gm Gm 3
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But the thing about slavery,
Am Am 
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Dm Dm 
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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?
Gm Gm 3
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What about when the ship overload
Am Am 
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Dm Dm 
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and they throw them overboard?
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What about all the mothers that cried
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Am Am 
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Dm Dm 
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What about all the children that died
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What about all the suicide
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and the pain we feel inside
What about all the shackles and chain
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Dm Dm 
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What about the messing
up of the brain
Gm Gm 3
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Don't know from where you came
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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

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