Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Third World People, artist - Jimmy Cliff. Date of issue: 20.08.2021
Song language: English
Third World People |
| Third world people |
| Remember where ya' comin' from |
| Third world people |
| Know where you belong |
| Mother country, mother country |
| We 'ave been told |
| That it’s England, France, Germany, Portugal |
| Since the days of old |
| But I know that life could not start in a refrigerator |
| Has to be in an incubator |
| So mark I words, mark these words |
| Well, I’n’I could never be the third |
| Third world people |
| Remember where ya' comin' from |
| Third world people |
| Know where you belong |
| Father country, my father country |
| I’ve been told, time and time again |
| Says America, France, Germany, Portugal |
| Netherlands, Italy or Spain |
| But I know |
| That it’s hungry Europe, barren Asia |
| And bountiful Africa |
| So you see now, you know who is first |
| Well, I’n’I could never be the worst |
| Third world people |
| Remember where ya' comin' from |
| Third world people |
| Know where you belong |
| Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh |
| They want to keep you down in perpetual |
| Insecurity, ignorance and poverty |
| By keeping the pressure on the innocent ones |
| Continually, this can’t go on |
| Third world people |
| I’n’I remember where ya' comin' from |
| Bona fide, dis third world people |
| Know where you belong |
| Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh |
| Civilization did not go up the Nile |
| It went down the Nile |
| And it reached Europe last |
| So if you not 'ave the roots |
| You just can’t know the |
| Just can’t know the truth, now |
| Africa, my country, my land |
| Africa, where the plants come from, I love to be |
| Africa, our wonderful Africa |
| Where the gold comes from |
| The diamonds come from |
| The platinum, the lignum, the oil |
| The rubber, ya' name it |
| We got it, we got it, we got it, we got it |
| Ooh, ooh, ooh |