| Ready right now, Ready right now
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| Ready right now, Ready right now
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| We people who are darker than blue
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| Are we gonna stand around this town
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| And let what others say come true
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| Are we just good for nothing so them figure
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| Worthless shifless nigga’s
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| We can hardly stand for that
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| Or is that where its really at?
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| Well, pardon me brother
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| As you stand in your glory
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| I hope you don’t mind
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| If I tell the whole story
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| Ready right now, Ready right now
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| Ready right now, Are you ready right now
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| We people who are darker than blue
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| There’s no time for segregation
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| I’m talking 'bout brown and yellow too
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| High yellow gal can you tell
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| Your just a surface of our deep well
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| If your mind can really see
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| You know your colour is the same as me
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| Are you ready Right now
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| Are you ready right now
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| Arh! |
| yeh! |
| arh!
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| Are you ready?
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| Ready Oh now now
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| Dry your weeping eyes
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| Cause we are on the rise
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| Head up to the sky
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| Keep your eyes upon prize
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| Jah Jah is the power and the glory
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| Giving us a brand new story
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| No mek tribal war destroys we
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| Let’s bring about some unity
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| Yeah, Yeah!
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| We People of African blue
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| It’s now time to seize the land
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| That’s been long time overdue
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| Politician 'pon a mission
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| They conjuring up corruption
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| So long we’ve been denied
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| And were just not satisfied
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| Ready right now
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| Ready right now
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| Are you ready right now
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| Are you ready right now
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| In a Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa
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| Sierre Leone and Ivory Coast and Liberia oh yeah
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| Ready right now |