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[Featuring Red Foxx]
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[Red Foxx] ** best guess **
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Follow me! Upon a Black Star Line
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Off for the rest and for Brand Nubian
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Now go to Africa again, watch dis!
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Chorus: repeat 4X
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[SX] Black Star Line [LJ] It's the Black Star Line
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[LJ] Everybody come aboard [SX] And free your mind
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[Sadat X]
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It's the Black Star Line that's leavin at nine
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Here's a paid ticket so you can free your mind
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Playgrounds is filled with visions of steel
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Grab the black babies IT'S TIME TO BUILD
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[Lord Jamar]
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See we got a mental ship somethin like Noah's Ark
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Spark your brain cell now let's set sail
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(with no avail) we flowin on a positive trip
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All Nubians is welcome, male and female
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[Sadat X]
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I, wouldn't resort, to askin for a passport
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Love vibes rule so your black face is cool
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[Lord Jamar]
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Cool, but not frozen, a trip for the chosen few..
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[Red Foxx] ** best guess **
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Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner
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Goin to Africa, one more time (3X)
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Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner
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Goin to Africa, one more time, TRUE!
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Let me tell you bout Marcus Garvey
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Born in Jamaica, God left him in country
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He go to America to make black people free
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He walk around low and just try make money
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Him buy up some ship and just start for we
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America or Africa and live irie
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We hav some man where wan gonna be
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Young nasty and just licky licky
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Some love Marcus Garvey, the place of peace
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Or peace around it, and dem sparkle up him say
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I just light up, make the first hungry
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Writer no block it but just run follow me
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Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner
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Goin to Africa, one more time
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Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner
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BRAND NUBIAN!! Tell dem one more time
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[Sadat X]
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As we look to the stars, they take ours
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Yeah we got fly cars but you can live in four wheels?
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We need new approaches, old style is null and void
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Makes me paranoid, to think
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that we own the whole ocean yet we can't even drink
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[Lord Jamar]
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You couldn't swim the nine thousand so we got you a means
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of transportation, for the Nubian nation
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Marcus Garvey had the idea back in the days
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Doin for self, keepin the wealth
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I gotta add on and create
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though the devil thinks it's not the latest fashion
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Navigatin lost, somethin like a ship's captain
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Chorus
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[Red Foxx] ** best guess **
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When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms
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Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black (2X)
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Call me proud to be black, cause I'm not tryin to fuck
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When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot (2X)
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Be gone! I want no dem I want no dem-dem dem-dem dem-dem
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Never know they wickedness they haffa come to an end
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Don't take a no fey word for de white boy dem
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Awayaa TELL ME - all you get in de end
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Awayaa TELL ME - all you get isa dem
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Awayaa TELL ME - all you get more den dey spend
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C'mon, tell de world black man entertainer
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Rock dem one and rock entertained
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Tell the Red Foxx style dem a get
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When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms
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Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black (2X)
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[Lord Jamar]
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Brand Nubian wanna give NUFF respect to the one Marcus Garvey
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[Sadat X]
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NUFF respect to Red Foxx
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[Lord Jamar]
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Sting International in the house
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[Sadat X]
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Dave Kennedy on the boards
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[Lord Jamar]
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KnowhatI'msayin? The one Rafael
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[Sadat X]
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Nuff respect to the God Sincere
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[Lord Jamar]
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Yeah, yaknowhatI'msayin? Mark the Spark is in the house
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And umm, this how we work out
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For the ninety-two season
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