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This is a song about change, you see |
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We say many things about the changing aspects of our lives |
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We say that since change is inevitable, we should direct the change |
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Rather than simply continue to go through the change |
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We sing a song of revolution as change |
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To the brothers in the |
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Caribbean and |
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Africa, Where |
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I'm Coming from |
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Early in the mornin' |
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I heard the call of the crow. |
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He said "C'mon now Brother, I want you to fly with me. Can't you see, it's time to go?" |
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I been working on this delta underneath the burnin' sun. |
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Seem like a |
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Mississippi revolution feel like where |
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I'm coming from. |
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Brother man run to |
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Nebraska after the |
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Civil War was through. |
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He worked with his hands, he worked on the land alla his life-- nothin' else he know to do. |
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Rootin'-tootin', wild-west-shootin'-up |
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Brothers! |
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Though His story don't teach us none. |
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Seem like a |
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Wild West |
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Revolution oughta be where |
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I'm comin' from. |
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Brother man raised on welfare |
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He live his life in the heart of the city. |
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Among the junkies and the desperate people he learned about life without pity. |
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But he's just been thinkin' and waitin' and thinkin' and waitin', know his chance was bound to come. |
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Seem like big city revolution oughta be where |
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I'm comin' from. |
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The point |
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I'm trying to make, movin' from place to place and time to time (is that) vibrations that bring on new vibrations is all that's on peoples minds. (They tell me) |
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Don't be 'fraid of revolution! |
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It ain't nothin' but change and change is surely bound to come. |
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Put a little revolution in your life and you'll understand where |
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I'm comin' from. |
