Fela Kuti - Shuffering And Shmiling (Parts 1 & 2) | Текст песни

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SHUFFERING AND SHMILING

This is only a taste of our next release, SHUFFERING AND SHMILING

MMMMMMM, ehhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhh
You Africans, please listen to me as Africans
And you non-Africans, listen to me with open mind….Ah

Suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer for world
Na your fault be that
Me I say, na your fault be that

Ahhhh, Mmmmm Hmmmmm
Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, woh, Ah

Suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer for world
Na your fault be that
Me I say, na your fault be that,,,,
Ahhhhhhh, Mmmmmmmm
Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ah-Ch, Ooooo, A ha

[SPOKEN] I want you all to please take your minds
Out of this musical contraption
And put your minds into any god-damn church
Any god-damn mosque
Any god-damn Celestical
Including Seraphoom* and Cheruboom** (God's serpent angels), **(4 faced angel)

Now, we are all there now
Our minds are in those places
Here we go

Suffer, suffer for world
[CHORUS] AMEN (AFTER EACH LINE)
Enjoy for Heaven
Christians go dey yab
“In Spiritum Heavinus"
Muslims go dey call
"Allah-hu Wak-u-bar”

Open you eye everywhere
Archbishop na miliki* *(enjoyment)
Pope na enjoyment
Imam na gba’ladun

[CHORUS]ARCHBISHOP DEY ENJOY
* HORN RESPONSES AFTER EACH LINE
[CHORUS] POPE SELF DEY ENJOY
[CHORUS] IMAM SELF DEY ENJOY
[CHORUS] MY BROTHER, WETIN** YOU SAY? **[WHAT]
[CHORUS] MY BROTHER, WETIN YOU SAY?

My sister wetin you go hear?
My sister wetin you go hear?

Archbishop dey for London

Pope dey for Rome
* HORN RESPONSES AFTER EACH LINE
Imam dey for Mecca
Archbishop dey for London
Pope dey for Rome
Imam dey for Mecca

My people them go dey follow Bishop
*[CHORUS] AMEN (AFTER EACH LINE)
Them go follow Pope
Them go follow Imam
Them go go for London
Them go go for Rome
Them go go for Mecca
Them go carry all the money
Them go juba Bishop
Juba Pope
Juba Imam
Then them go start to yab* themselves: *(tease/bother)
*[Nonsense syllables- fake Arabic/Catholic chants] at least 12 repetitions

Every day, for house
Every day, for road
Every day, for bus
Every day, for work
** Repeat stanza

My people, my people
My people, my people

We now have to carry our minds
Out of those god-damn places
Back into this musical contraption right opposite you
Now we are back here

This is what happens to we Africans, every day
Now, wetin I want tell you now
Na secret- o
Na confidential matter
Don't tell anybody outside
Na between me and you
Now listen

As I dey say before
E dey happen to all of us every day
We Africans all over the world
Now listen

Every day my people dey inside bus
*[CHORUS] SUFFERING & SMILING *[AFTER EACH LINE]
Every day my people dey inside bus
Forty-nine sitting, ninety-nine standing
Them go pack themselves in like sardine
Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock
Them go reach house, water no dey
Them go reach bed, power no dey
Them go reach road, go-slow go come
Them go reach road, police go slap
Them go reach road, army go whip
Them go look pocket, money no dey
Them go reach work, query ready
Every day na the same thing
Every day na the same thing
Every day na the same thing
Every day na the same thing

Suffer, suffer for world
[CHORUS] AMEN (AFTER EACH LINE)
Enjoy for Heaven
Christians go dey yab
“In Spiritum Heavinus"
Muslims go dey call
"Allah-hu Wak-u-bar”
How many, many a many you go make?
Many, many...
How many, many a many you go make?
Many, many...
How many, many a many you go make?
Many, many...
How many, many a many you go make?
Many, many
*{CHORUS AMEN’s CONT THRU KEY RESPONSES SOLO]