JR.GONG INTRO Morning to you Man, Morning to you Love… Hey I say I said
JR. GONG CHORUS 1 Africa must wake up The sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Yeah now, Well Africa must wake up You sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Yeah now…
NAS VERSE 1 The Black Oasis Ancient, Africa the sacred Awaken The sleeping giant Science, Art is your creation I dreamt that we could visit Old Kemet Your history is too complex and rigid For some western critics They want the whole subject diminished But Africa’s the origin of all the world’s religions We praise bridges that carried us over The battlefronts of Sudanic soldiers The task put before us
JR. GONG CHORUS 2 You hear me out Africa must wake up You sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Yeah now, Well Africa must wake up The sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Yeah now…
NAS VERSE 2 Who are we today? The slums, deceases, AIDS We need that all to fade We cannot be afraid So who are we today? We are the morning after The make shift youth The slave ship captured Our Diaspora Is the final chapter The ancestral lineage Built pyramids America’s first emigrant The King’s son and daughters From Nile waters The first architect The first philosophers Astronomers The first prophets and the doctors Was us
JR GONG BRIDGE Now can we all pray Each in his own way Teaching and learning And we can work it out We’ll have a warm bed We’ll have some warm bread And shelter from the storm Dread And we can work it out Mother Nature feeds all In famine and drought Tell those selfish in ways Not to share us out What’s a tree without root Lion without tooth A lie without truth You hear me out
JR. GONG CHORUS 3 Africa must wake up You sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Yeah lord, Well Africa must wake up You sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May some more love come Yesterday we were Kings I tell you young blood This world is yours today
K’NANN
(Somali) Dadyahow daali waayey, nabada diideen, oo ninkii doortay diinta, waadinka dillee, oo dal markii ladhiso, waadinka dunshee, oo daacad ninkii damcay, waadinka dooxee. (Translation) Oh ye people, restless in the refusal of peace, and when a man chooses religion, aren't you the ones to kill him? And when a country is built, aren't you the ones to tear it down? And when one attempts to tell the truth, aren't you the ones to cut him down?
JR. GONG CHORUS 4 I say Well Africa must wake up The sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Yeah now, Well Africa must wake up The sleeping sons of Jacob For what tomorrow may bring… May a better day come Yesterday we were Kings Can you tell the young ones Who are we today? Who are we today?
Morning to you Morning to you Man Morning to you Love…