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Ready right now, Ready right now |
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Ready right now, Ready right now |
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We people who are darker than blue |
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Are we gonna stand around this town |
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And let what others say come true |
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Are we just good for nothing so them figure |
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Worthless shifless nigger's |
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We can hardly stand for that |
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Or is that where its really at? |
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Well, pardon me brother |
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As you stand in your glory |
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I hope you don't mind |
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If I tell the whole story |
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Ready right now, Ready right now |
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Ready right now , Are you ready right now |
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We people who are darker than blue |
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There's no time for segregation |
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I'm talking 'bout brown and yellow too |
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High yellow gal can you tell |
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Your just a surface of our deep well |
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If your mind can really see |
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You know your colour is the same as me. |
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Chorus |
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Are you ready Right now |
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Are you ready right now |
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Arh! yeh! arh! |
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Are you ready? |
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Ready Oh now now |
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Dry your weeping eyes |
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Cause we are on the rise |
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Head up to the sky |
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Keep your eyes upon prize |
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Jah Jah is the power and the glory |
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Giving us a brand new story |
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No mek tribal war destroys we |
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Let's bring about some unity. |
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Yeah, Yeah! |
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We People of African blue |
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It's now time to seize the land |
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That's been long time overdue |
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Politician 'pon a mission |
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They conjuring up corruption |
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So long we've been denied |
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And were just not satisfied |
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Chorus |
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Ready right now |
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Ready right now |
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Are you ready right now |
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Are you ready right now |
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In a Zimbabwe,Mozambique and South Africa |
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Sierre Leone and Ivory Coast and Liberia oh yeah |
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Ready right now |