Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Rise & Shine, artist - Bunny Wailer.
Date of issue: 01.03.2019
Song language: English
Rise & Shine |
This is the cry of a people |
Who were robbed and raped from their homeland |
And their loved ones. |
A people stripped of their culture, |
Their dignity, their liberty and their rigths |
And by the cruel and presumptuos |
Hands of the colonial and imperialistics slavers |
Were cargoed into the west, |
Where for over 400 years they have toiled and laboured, |
And with their blood, their sweat, them tears and hands |
They have built the great city of Babylon, |
Only to be paid with the wages of the taskmaster’s |
Whip, |
Torture and death. |
Oh yea yea! |
This is my history! |
Oh yea yea yes! |
Oh! |
We’ve been down in the valley much too long. |
We’ve been down in captivity oh so long. |
We’ve been down in humillity much too long. |
We’ve been down in slavery oh so long. |
But we’re gonna rise and shine! |
And win our liberation, |
For now is the time |
When all nations must be free. |
So rise and shine! |
Restore your strength and power, |
Waste no more time, |
Remember your history. |
We’ve been down in a sufferation much too long. |
We’ve been down in a condemnation oh so long. |
We’ve been down in a segregation much too long. |
We’ve been down in humilliation oh so long. |
But we’re gonna rise! |
As the morning sun that surrounds you, |
It’s international morality time, |
Where mankind must be born anew. |
So rise and shine! |
For the sake of the younger generations, |
Putting hearts and minds, |
To brotherhood and unity. |
Oh yea yea yea yea yes! |
Remember the slavemaster’s ship! |
Remember the taskmaster’s whip! |
Oh yea! |
We’ve been down in the valley much too long. |
We’ve been down in captivity oh so long. |
We’ve been down in slavery much too long. |
We’ve been down in humillity oh so long. |
But we’re gonna rise and shine! |
And win our liberation, |
For now is the time |
When all nations must be free. |
Rise and shine! |
Restore your strength and power, |
Waste no more time, |
Remember your history. |
Yes we’re gonna rise and shine! |