When yuh live in the past
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Yuh lost
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(Blessed, blessed)
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Yuh better walk on the right path
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Big life, liberty, straight up
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Mankind what me sing
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(Sung)
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Memories don't live like people do
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They always 'member you
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Whether things are good or bad
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It's just the memories that you have
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The Beenie Man a sing
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(Say hey)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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(Again)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Body between di board head peep through the glass
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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Meg, peg, Dis a man yuh dead
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Way back inna di west before dem lick Jango head
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For a few more dollars 'nother one dead
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High plains drifter man ah fled
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(I sing)
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Too much wickedness
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Down inna di west, down inna di west
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While a Apache form dem nest, dem nest
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Outlaw Josey Wale, get vexed
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(Get vexed)
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All bounty hunter dem draw fi dem vest
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(Dem vest)
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Gold an diamond wicked man intercept
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(Intercept)
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Pack up mi saddle and decide to make a flex
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Way back inna di future
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Where me have to make a step
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(All sing along)
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Memories don't live like people do
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They always 'member you
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Whether things are good or bad
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It's just the memories that you have
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The Beenie Man a sing
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(Say hey)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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(Again)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Body between di board head peep through the glass
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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I cyaan believe or understand
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Why some man approach with white man tradition
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Talk 'bout dem a Cowboy and Indian
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Me a African an me born black ,an
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And a who upon di mic di fabulous Beenie Man
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Some mawga skinny and same cranky one
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Talking lyric to all di nation
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(All sing along)
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Memories don't live like people do
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They always 'member you
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Whether things are good or bad
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It's just the memories that you have
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The Beenie Man a sing
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(Say hey)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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(Again)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Body between di board head peep through the glass
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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What I caan understand
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Why some man ah revere white man tradition
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Talk 'bout dem a Cowboy and Indian
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Like dem no respect dem complexion
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Mi black and mi ugly, Africa me come from
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One day yuh got to return to dat land
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Selassie I, me praise
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Its here me make mi stand
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(So sing along)
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Memories don't live like people do
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They always 'member you
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Whether things are good or bad
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It's just the memories that you have
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The Beenie Man a sing
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(Say hey)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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(Again)
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Boy, stop live down inna de past
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Just member when man a ride 'orse
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Body between di board head peep through the glass
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Crushed like a serpent snake under grass
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Stop Live In A De Pass
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Beenie Man |