| Give me the food and let me grow
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| give me the knowledge let me know
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| I’m like the early early sunshine
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| ready to enlight my people with something bright
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| give me the shoes and let me go
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| fi buy a ticket fi take the road
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| nah let me poor child walking on the moon side with nothing
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| oh did you hear my Oh Why when mi looking so high behind the curtain
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| everything you love ago build up my pride
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| mi don’t wanna miss any piece of your line
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| so nah leave me lone
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| please nah keep me down
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| and so long the pickney nah row
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| him go dance in the wind at the bow
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| so keep him dancing
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| keep your children learning
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| I see so many youths watch dem deh pon the road
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| with no place fi run they got no place fi go
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| maddest dreams dem a gone
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| and we a know we gonna bring back so faith in the man of tomorrow
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| and Fatbabs said yes
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| InI spread out the way fi progress
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| fi the little youth we affi give them the best
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| we affi give them the best place
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| cause we are the future my brothers, my sisters
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| we are the future |