| Dem dread seh
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| Dem dread seh
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| Dem dread seh
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| Dem dread seh
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| No matter how you bad I man badder than you
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| No matter how you dread I man dreader than you
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| No matter how you hard I man harder than you
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| No matter how you raw
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| I more-weak heart back way so
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| A bad man no want go back Into captivity
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| A bad man no want go back to slavery
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| Uprising from the claws of the wicked
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| Two bulls can’t reign in one pen
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| Two lions can’t roar in a small den
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| Two scorpions don’t sting at the same spot
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| Two guns can’t fire the same bullet shot so
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| Move right out now
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| Move right out now
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| Move right out now
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| Move right out now
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| Two kings don’t wear the same crown
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| Two beauties don’t have the same gown on
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| Tomorrow Is too late to leave town
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| If you’re still here at noon
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| There’ll be one big, big, big showdown so
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| Uprising, uprising
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| Uprising, uprising
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| I give you tlil noon to go
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| On your way to survival, where
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| Your heart will beat more fonder
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| With life
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| And breath still enters your body
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| Repeat verse one
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| If you still coming me nah run
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| If you still coming, me ah go, drop you
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| If you still coming me nah run
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| So better stop running before I, break you
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| So run and hide before I, find you
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| Woe betide if I catch up on you
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| If you still coming I box you down
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| If you still coming I clart you down
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| Long time we deh under backraw…
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| Four hundred years (many, many years)
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| Slavery days…
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| Slavery days…
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| Slavery days…
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| Oh you’ve been bought
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| Oh you’ve been sold
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| Oh cast over me
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| Got strung up for nothing at all
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| Strange fruit… |