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Irie
You remember the book I tell you about, Africanity?
Me find it, you know?
Yeah man, Africa, Africa
Roots and culture man, yeah man
Well, that a nice man
Africa, seen?
Yeah, hold on a for, for parents seen
Home sweet home Mama Africa

Inna Africa, yeah
The land that I and I come
Cah me say Africa
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, me say, Nigeria
Inna Kenya, yeah
Inna Africa
I and I want to go
No more will I roam
Me say step it inna Africa
Come and I and Binghi, make we chant inna Africa

Slave master took us away from Africa (Bo!)
Brought us down in the Caribbean (Bo!)
Them take away we language and we culture (Bo!)
Brrrr!

Whipping and a lashing pon our back
And me feel
Take away we language and we culture (Bo!)
Brrrr!
Dang-diddly-diddly-diddly-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang
Me say
Take away we language and we culture (Bo!)
I and I want to go

Ayy, no more will I roam

Inna Africa, yeah
The land that I and I come
Cah me say Africa
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, me say, Nigeria
Inna Kenya, yeah
Inna Africa
I and I want to go
No more will I roam
Me say step it inna Africa
Come and I and Binghi, make we chant inna Africa

Irie
You remember the book I tell you about, Africanity?
Me find it, you know?
Yeah man, Africa, Africa

I and I want to go to Africa (Bo!)
I and I want to go to Africa (Bo!)
I and I want to leave Jamaica (Bo!)
I and I want to leave Canada (Bo!)
I and I want to leave America (Bo!)
I and I want to leave Europe (Bo!)
Too bad mind and me say too much corrupt
Brrrr!
Make we sit down, pick up

And me say Africa (Wah!)
I and I want to go to Africa, yeah
Sweet Africa
Mama Africa
Brrrr!

Holy Mount Zion
Yeah!
Africa
Rrrrr, watch it
Shout, yeah
Come and I and Binghi
Me say come, 12 Tribes, and me say, Nyabinghi
Took us away from Africa

Took us away

Africa, Africa
Africa, Africa

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