| You take I on your trip
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| On your stinky slave ship
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| Some of us survive
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| While others take their lives
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| I say
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| The jews making claims for their Holocaust
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| The Indian a claim fe the land that they lost
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| What about the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria?
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| And de Africans slaves that you raid from Africa
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| What about the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria?
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| And the gold and the diamonds you rob from Africa
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| That’s why I say
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| You take away me roots
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| You take away me culture
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| Fly down like a scavenger
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| Acting like a vulture, oh yeah!
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| The jews making claims for their Holocaust
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| The Indian a claim fe the land that they lost
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| What about the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria?
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| And the gold and the diamonds you rob from Africa
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| What about the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria?
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| And de Africans slaves that you raid from Africa
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| That’s why I say
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| You take away me roots
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| You take away me culture
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| Fly down like a scavenger
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| Acting like a vulture, oh yeah!
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| You so gravilicious, malicious and covetious
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| And with you dirty greed
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| Greater than you need
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| You so gravilicious, malicious and covetious
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| And with your dirty greed
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| Greater than you need, oh yeah!
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh
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| Time to pay the piper
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| Mr. Rip and Run Off
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| A long time you and your guy dem
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| Dem a grab and a laugh |