| Oh if I knew yesterday what I know now
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| Things would be different
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| Today would be excellent of course
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| They took us away from our homeland
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| They took us away from our homeland
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| And we are slaving down here in Babylon
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| And we are slaving down here in Babylon
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| They are waiting on an opportunity
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| They are waiting on an opportunity
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| For the Black Starliner which is to come
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| For the Black Starliner which is to come
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| Not long Jah Jah Jah Jah not long
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| Not long Jah Jah Jah Jah not long
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| We are waiting on the Black Starliner
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| And we are still waiting on the Black Starliner
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| Wait on Jah
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| Wait on His works
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| I meekly wait and murmur not
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| I meekly wait and murmur not
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| For the Black Starliner shall come
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| For the Black Starliner must come
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| Still waiting on that opportunity
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| We are still waiting on the same opportunity
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| For the Black Starliner which is to come
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| For the Black Starliner which is to come
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| Marcus say so Oh land of Africa
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| Holy Mount Africa
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| We want, we want to go We want, we want to go Sierra Leone and Ghana
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| Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
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| We want, we want to go (in a Kenya)
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| We want, we want to go They took us away from our homeland
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| They took us away from our homeland
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| And we are slaving down here in Babylon
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| Don’t want to be slaving down here in Babylon
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| Ethiopia stretch forth her hands
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| Ghana, say come home brother
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| We are slaving down here in Babylon
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| And we are slaving down here in Babylon
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| We want go eat fufu and palm wine
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| Eat some nice fish and have nice time
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| We are slaving down here in Babylon
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| We are slaving down here in Babylon
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| Want go look nice ladies
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| Want to see mother with their babies
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| We are slaving down here in Babylon
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| This is eternal hell
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| We are slaving down here in Babylon
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| Nothing for us We are slaving down here in Babylon
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| And it a run red
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| We are slaving down here in Babylon |