Caribbean Unity [Song]

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CARIBBEAN UNITY
By Black Stalin
Album: The Caribbean Man, 1978

You try with a federation, the whole thing end in confusion
Caricom and then Carifta, but somehow I smelling disaster
Mister West Indian politician, I mean you went to big institution
And how come you can't unite 7 million?
When a West Indian unity, I know is very easy
If you only rap to your people and tell them like me.

Them is one race [The Caribbean man]
From the same place [The Caribbean man]
That make the same trip [The Caribbean man]
On the same ship [The Caribbean man]
So we must push one common intention
Is for a better life in the region
For we woman, and we children
That must be the ambition of the Caribbean man
The Caribbean man, the Caribbean man.

You say that the federation was imported quite from England
And you going and form a Carifta with a true West Indian flavour
But since Carifta started running, morning, noon and night all I hearing
Is just money speech them prime minister giving
But I say, no set of money could form a unity
First of all your people need their identity.

Like one race [The Caribbean man]
From the same place [The Caribbean man]
That make the same trip [The Caribbean man]
On the same ship [The Caribbean man]
So we must push one common intention
Is for a better life in the region
For we woman, and we children
That must be the ambition of the Caribbean man
The Caribbean man, the Caribbean man.

Caricom is wasting time, the whole Caribbean gone blind
If we don't know from where we coming, then we can't plan where we going
That's why some want to be communist, brother, some want to be socialist
And one set of religion to add to the foolishness
Look, a man who don't know his history can't form no unity
How could a man who don't know his roots form his own ideology?

Like one race [The Caribbean man]
From the same place [The Caribbean man]
That make the same trip [The Caribbean man]
On the same ship [The Caribbean man]
So we must push one common intention
Is for a better life in the region
For we woman, and we children
That must be the ambition of the Caribbean man
The Caribbean man, the Caribbean man.

The Federation done dead and Carifta going to bed
But the cult of the Rastafarian spreading through the Caribbean
It have Rastas now in Grenada, it have Rastas now in St. Lucia
But to run Carifta, yes, you getting pressure
If the Rastafari movement spreading and Carifta dying slow
Then is something them Rastas on, that them politicians don't know.

That there's one race [The Caribbean man]
From the same place [The Caribbean man]
That make the same trip [The Caribbean man]
On the same ship [The Caribbean man]
So they pushing one common intention
Is for a better life in the region
For their woman, and their children
That must be the ambition of the Caribbean man
The Caribbean man, the Caribbean man.

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare