Kaya - African Herbsman
(Wake up and -) (Wake up and -) (Wake up and -) Wake up and turn I loose, For the rain is fallin’! Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya), Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya) Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya), For the rain is fallin’! We-e-e-e-e-ell, I feel so high, I […]
Why’s this fussing and a-fighting? I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know Why’s this bumping and a-boring? I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know now We should really love each other (love each other) In peace and harmony (peace and harmony), ooh Instead, we’re fussing and fighting (fussing and fighting) And them workin’ iniquity (… […]
Yes, me friend, We deh a street again. Yes, me friend, me good friend, Dem say we free again. The bars could not hold me; Force could not control me now. They try to keep me down, yeah! But Jah put I around. Yeah! Yes, I’ve been accused many a times And wrongly abused, now. […]
Huh, please don’t you rock my boat ‘Cause I don’t want my boat to be rockin’ anyhow Please don’t you rock my boat, no ‘Cause I don’t want my boat to be rockin’ I’m tellin’ you that, oh, ooh-aah, I like it a-like a-this Can you miss? And you should know, ooh-aah, when I like […]
Ooh-ooh Old Mr. Joe, he build a house away On top of some hill Old Mr. Joe knew he had to go, so he He got right down and wrote bank will He say now, here’s to mother hen And her chicken, Lord have mercy now Master, will you take a roll in the mud […]
Bend down low Let me tell you what I know now Bend down low Let me tell you what I know, what I know, what I know Long time, we no have no nice time Doo-yoo-doo-dun-doo, yeah, think about that Long, long, long, long time, we no have no nice time Doo-yoo-doo-dun-doo, yeah, think about […]
All twinklin’ lee Can’t see the right rose when the streams abate The old slave men might grind slow But it grinds fine, yeah African herbsman, why linger on? Just concentrate, ’cause heaven lives on Greet-I-eth slave men will look with a scorn With a transplanted heart (yes, how quick they had to part) (… […]
