Here in Jamaica-Bunny Wailer

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[00:00.00]Here in Jamaica - Bunny Wailer
[00:15.33]Come along every goodie
[00:18.13]Come and hear what I have to say
[00:21.40]Come and listen and I will tell you
[00:24.30]What is the talk of the town today
[00:27.62]And every corner that you may walk
[00:30.82]You see a group of people balk
[00:33.57]They're not skylarkin' they're talkin'
[00:35.67]'Bout what's happening here in Jamaica
[00:40.98]Can't get no work off hustling
[00:43.84]And man when you take a stock
[00:47.22]Can't cook no rice and dumpling
[00:50.04]And will soon end up in a shack
[00:52.89]Can't pay no rent 'cause you don't have a cent
[00:55.92]No government account it's already spent
[00:59.19]So you end up borrowing begging or stealing
[01:02.73]Here in Jamaica
[01:06.61]Some a dem long long treat bad
[01:09.06]And they don't care a thing about that
[01:12.71]Desperation is getting so bad
[01:15.20]You either bite the bullet or get flat
[01:18.62]And if a you should die before his day
[01:22.05]Who are responsible don't want to pay
[01:25.07]I am not jokin' I'm talkin' 'bout what's happening
[01:28.37]Here in Jamaica
[01:31.08]Whoa yea
[01:44.81]Why don't you take us onward to Africa
[01:47.86]Where we can sit and eat and chat
[01:51.22]For it is no use dying in Jamaica
[01:54.31]'Cause we can't afford a burial spot
[01:57.06]Remember marcus garvey predicted that day
[02:00.25]When all black people shall be going away
[02:03.35]To the land of our forefathers and our mothers
[02:06.86]Right here in ethiopia
[02:11.22]Oh what a glorious morning
[02:13.62]When we shall leap out of babylon
[02:17.04]There shall be singin' dancin' and rejoicing
[02:20.27]With the dawn of the rising sun
[02:23.48]And all the africans home and abroad
[02:26.08]Just like the israelites we shall be glad
[02:29.49]To leave our worries trials and crosses here in jamaica
[02:36.81]So come along every goodie
[02:39.64]Come and hear what I have to say
[02:43.04]Come and listen and I will tell you
[02:45.99]What is the talk of the town today
[02:49.09]And to every corner that you may walk
[02:52.37]You see a group of people balk
[02:55.23]They're not skylarkin' they're talkin'
[02:57.58]'Bout what's happening here in jamaica
[03:01.89]I am not jokin' I'm talkin' 'bout what's happening
[03:05.13]Here in Jamaica
[03:08.19]They're not skylarkin' they're talkin'
[03:10.24]'Bout what's happening here in Jamaica
[03:14.58]I am not jokin' I'm talkin' 'bout what's happening
[03:18.09]Here in jamaica
[03:21.09]They're not skylarkin' they're talkin'
[03:23.19]'Bout what's happening here in a Jamboria
[03:27.45]I am not jokin' I'm talkin' 'bout what's happening
[03:30.36]Here