Give Thanks [Song]


Uploaded by IsDePanInMe

GIVE THANKS
By Black Stalin
Arranged by Carlysle (Juiceman) Roberts
Album: Message to Sundar
Ice Music Ltd., T&T 1995

You moving wrong and you playing strong
And not for once, you wouldn't get down and just
[Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, give thanks]
If certain people had their way
We wouldn't be around in this world today, so
[Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, give thanks]
Look how we had the privilege
To make it across the Middle passage, so
[Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, give thanks]
Get down mih brother, get down mih sister
And say thanks, say thanks to Mother Africa.
[Give thanks, give thanks]

Chorus:
Oh Ma, oh Mama Africa, thanks for keeping me so sane
Wheresoever I may wonder, I'll sing praises to your name.
Oh Ma, oh Mama Africa, thanks for keeping me so sane
Wheresoever I may wonder, I'll sing praises to your name.

From a crucial trip 'cross the Atlantic
You end up today still ready and fit, so
[Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, give thanks]
Family and culture you keep them together,
Look today they striving as ever, so
[Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, give thanks]
They push you down and they push you around
Now look today you off the ground so
[Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, give thanks]
Get down mih brother, get down mih sister
And say thanks, say thanks to Mother Africa.
[Give thanks, give thanks]

Chorus:
Oh Ma, oh Mama Africa, thanks for keeping me so sane
Wheresoever I may wonder, I'll sing praises to your name.
Oh Ma, oh Mama Africa, thanks for keeping me so sane
Wheresoever I may wonder, I'll sing praises to your name.

You got to say thanks [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say thanks [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say thanks [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say thanks [Give thanks, give thanks]
Go down on your knees [Give thanks, give thanks]
And say thanks for Malcolm [Give thanks, give thanks]
Yes, say thanks for Shaka [Give thanks, give thanks]
Yes, say thanks for Garvey [Give thanks, give thanks]
Yes, say thanks for Rodney [Give thanks, give thanks]
And thanks for Nyerere [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to go down [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to go down [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say thanks [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say thanks [Give thanks, give thanks]
Shaka [Give thanks, give thanks]
Malcolm [Give thanks, give thanks]
Yes, thanks for Nyerere [Give thanks, give thanks]
Yes, thanks for Garvey [Give thanks, give thanks]
Mandela [Give thanks, give thanks]
Kenyatta [Give thanks, give thanks]
Kwame [Give thanks, give thanks]
Sister Tubman [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say... [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to say... [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to go... [Give thanks, give thanks]
You got to go... [Give thanks, give thanks]

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

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