Nah Ease Up [Song]

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NAH EASE UP
By Black Stalin

Them power seekers in high places sitting
Yes, they vex like hell 'bout the song we singing
Yes, they warn Watchman, Aloes and Chalkie
You see they warn Cro Cro, yes, they even warn me
But you tell dem for me, I am not afraid, to give up, I must be crack
I'm the people's watchdog, elected for life so I dey always on yuh back.

Any time you mess with the people's business, the black man jamming
Stop seeking the voters' interest, the black man jamming
And if you take away ten percent from the worker, the black man jamming
And if you have no intention of giving back the COLA, the black man jamming.

I telling you, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up
Nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up.

Me ent put no cocoa in the sun to dry
So brother, rain could fall, there's no need to cry
I ent get no play from no big pappy
So when I say mih ting, I got to say I'm sorry
I could say how I feel, when I feel, and doh care who make a fuss
Because Black Stalin know that he ent got no dirty linen to wash.

Any time you start giving kisses for favour, the black man jamming
And if you start to forget who put you in power, the black man jamming
Any time you start talking race in the country, the black man jamming
And between the masses spreading disharmony, the black man jamming.

I telling you, I nah ease up, we nah ease up, we nah ease up, we nah ease up
Chalkdust tell me, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up.

I ent got no groove, I ent got no party
Every constituency is my constituency
Anywey poor people getting pressure
It is my duty to tell Mr. Divider
'Cause I could tell him how how I want, when I want, and really doh care a thing
'Cause nobody cyah talk up to me about party discipline.

Any time you stop consulting with the voter, the black man jamming
And you moving 'bout like a one man crusader, the black man jamming
I say you signing today, then telling we tomorrow, the black man jamming
And you only spreading ---- heartbreak and sorrow, the black man jamming.

I telling you, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up
Bally tell me, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up.

They want me sit down and see wrong things happening
And sing 'bout smut and not 'bout the wrong thing
If I sing how they good, yes, they happy as ever
And if I sing how they bad, yes, they talking 'bout censor
But you tell them for me when I say mih thing, I doh care who happy or sad
For any time it come to the people business, I bad, bad, bad.

Anytime you making IMF the father, the black man jamming
And if you putting we in debt and saying we doing better, the black man jamming
And if you forgetting to do something for culture, the black man jamming
And if you try to be another messiah, the black man jamming.

I telling you, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up
Chalkdust tell me, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up.
Cro Cro tell me nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up
Cro Cro tell me, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up.
Watchman tell me nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up
Nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up, nah ease up.
Aloes tell me nah ease up, nah ease up...

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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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Black Stalin!

"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