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| 7:01 | ||||
2. |
| 13:48 | ||||
3. |
| 12:40 | ||||
4. |
| 17:00 | ||||
5. |
| 10:33 | ||||
6. |
| 14:30 | ||||
Disc 2 | ||||||
1. |
| 15:07 | ||||
2. |
| 13:43 | ||||
3. |
| 12:17 | ||||
4. |
| 17:21 | ||||
Make you no go anywhere
Just wait make I tell you something [Chorus] Fela, you don come again! I never come again I still live dey faraway Make you wait till I reach where I dey go [Chorus] Where you dey go? Make I reach... Make I reach Don't ask me Wait and see I say, I say, I say... This thing wey happen Happen for my country Na big big thing First time in the whole world If you hear the name, you go know Government magic Tell me the name now [Chorus] Government magic! Them go dabaru everything Them go turn green into white Them go turn red into blue Water dey go, water dey come Water dey go, water dey come Them go turn electric to candle Them go turn electric to candle Government magic Government magic I see dey come Small, small Look o, look o [Chorus] Left, right, left, right, left, right, left! One thousand soldiers them dey come People dey wonder, dey wonder, dey wonder One more time: people dey wonder, dey wonder, dey wonder Stevie Wonder dey there too Na one week after FESTAC too And dey broadcast on American satellite Around that time too now, I say to you Where these one thousand soldiers them dey go? Look o Na Fela house Kalakuta Them don reach the place, them dey wait Them dey wait for... [Chorus] Order! Now listen [Chorus] Left, right, left, right, left, right, left! Them surround the place, kwam kwam kwam, them dey wait Wait them helmet and them guns And them petrol and them matches Then again... [Chorus] Stand at ease! Fela dey for house Beko dey there too Them mama dey there too Beautiful people dey there too Frenchman dey there too Press man dey there too One-fifty of us dey there too Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly... [Chorus] Jaba, jaba... Jubu, jubu... Jebe, jebe... Jawa, jawa... Them dey break, yes Them dey steal, yes Them dey loot, yes Them dey fuck some of the women by force, yes Them dey rape, yes Them dey burn, yes Them dey burn, yes Them dey burn, yes Them commot one student's eye, yes Them break some some head Them break some some head Them throw my mama Seventy-eight-year-old mama Political mama Ideological mama Influential mama... Them throw my mama out from window Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them carry everybody Them carry everybody go inside jail [Chorus] Fall out! Everybody dey inside jail We dey wait twenty-seven days Them lock us Press dey shout Radio dey ring People dey talk Them go burn Fela house Wettin this Fela do? This government e bad o Wetin this Fela do? Fela talk about soldiers Flogging civilians for streets Fela talk about government Wasting money for FESTAC Wetin this Fela do? This government e bad o People start to talk o Government start to shake o Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly... Government bring instruments of magic Them bring inquiry Them bring two men One soldier, one Justice The name of Justice: Mr. Justice Agwu Anya The other Justice: Mr. Justice Dosunmu Them start magic Them seize my house wey them don burn Them seize my land Them drive all the people wey live in area Two thousand citizens Them make them all homeless now Them start magic Them start magic Them bring flame, them bring hat Them conjure, them bring rabbit Them bring egg, them bring smoke Them dey scream, them dey fall Them conjure, spirit catch them Them dey fall, them dey scream Them dey shout Them dey, them dey say [Chorus] Unknown soldier! Na him do am Government magic I get some information for you I get some information for you That my mama wey you kill She fought for universal adult suffrage That my mama wey you kill She fought for universal adult suffrage That my mama wey you kill She is the only mother of this country That my mama wey you kill She is the only mother of Nigeria Which kind injustice is this? Wetin concern government inside? If na unknown soldier I said, wetin concern government inside? If na unknown soldier We get unknown police We get unknown soldier We get unknown civilian All is equal to unknown government We get unknown police Them go kill nine students We get unknown civilian Them go kill two soldiers We get unknown soldier I say unknown police And then unknown soldier And then unknown civilian All is equal to unknown government Them turn green into red Them turn blue into white Them turn green into blue I'm finished, mother |
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5. |
| 14:15 | ||||
Disc 3 | ||||||
1. |
| 13:42 | ||||
2. |
| 14:48 | ||||
3. |
| 17:04 | ||||
4. |
| 14:25 | ||||
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O Let's get down, to the underground spiritual game We all sing together, play music together in happiness All you have to do is sing what I play on my horn Now Let's go... A kujuba, A kujuba YE-EHHHH! Yehhhhhh-Ey! Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke YAA! Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! All the wahala, all the problems, All the things, all the things they go do, For this world go start, When the teacher, schoolboy and schoolgirl jam together Who be teacher? I go let you know When we be pikin FATHA/ MAMA BE TEACHER When we dey for school TEACHER BE TEACHER Now dey University LECTURER BE TEACHER When we start to work GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION (*after each line) Who be government teacher? Who be government teacher? Cu-ulture and tradition Cu-ulture and tradition Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee I go sing about I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass Da go for France YES SIR/YES MAAM (*after each line) Engi-land Italy Germany Na dem culture For der Be teacher For dem Go China Russia Korea Viet Nam Na dem culture For der Be teacher For dem Go Syria Jordan Iran Iraq Na dem culture For der Be teacher For dem Let us face ourselves for Afrika Na de matter of Afrika This part-ee of my song Na all the problems of this world In we dey carry, for Afrika Wey no go ask-ee me WHICH ONE? (*after each line) Problems of inflation Problems of corruption Of mismanagement Stealing by government Nothing we dey carry All over Afrika Na de latest one Na him dey make me laugh AUSTERITY (*after each line) Austeri- Austeri- Na him dey latest one Na him dey make me laugh Why I dey laugh? Man no fit cry? Who be our teacher na Oyinbo? Who be our teacher na Oyinbo? A na false, the first election And the second election held in Nigeria Na the second election na it was pass BOBA LA NONSENSE (*after each line) Boba la nonsense Boba la nonsense He pass redeem He pass corruption Which kind election be dis? People na go vote Dem come get big big numbers Thousands to thousands Millions to billions Which kind election be dis? Boba la nonsense Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal Who don teach us ee dem-o-cr-azy? (Bo-ptch!) Oyinbo teach-ee us (Yuh-ngh!) Oyinbo for Europe-oh Oyinbo teach us many many things-ee Many of dem things I don sing about-ee Me I no gin copy Oyinbo style Let us think say, Oyinbo no pass me When Shagari finish him elections Wey dem no tell am, say him make mistake-ee Say this yo, no be democracy Oyinbo dem no tell army self Na for England-ee, I me no fit take over I come think about this demo-crazy Democrazy DEMO-CRAZY (*after each line) Crazy demo Demonstration of craze Crazy demonstration If it no be craze Why for Afrika? As time dey go Things just dey bad They bad more and more Poor man dey cry Rich man dey mess Demo-crazy Democrazy Crazy demo Demonstration of craze Crazy demonstration If good-u teacher teach-ee something And student make mistake Teacher must talk-ee so But Oyinbo no talk-ee so I suffer dem, Dey suffer dem Dem dey say da teaching get meaning Different different meaning Different different kinds of meaning That is why I say That is the reason of my song That is the conclude The conclud-ee of my song I say, I sing, I beg everyone to join my song (3x) --------------------- TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O --------------------- Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke YAA! Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! |
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5. |
| 16:33 | ||||