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Rise Up

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Rise Up

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So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

He spread his wing in, yes.

In foreign countries,

He spread his wing

To help foreign people.

African American people.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

Harlem, Harlem, Harlem,

Harlem, Harlem,

It was happiness... brightness,

You could see that light,

Not streetlight, but Garvey

Light.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

Yes there was that war,

The Italian invading, Ethiopia.

And he sent soldiers.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

Let's look back on the works

Of Mr. Garvey,

Let's look back on the

Improvments of Mr. Garvey.

Let's look back on the

Development of Mr. Garvey.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

And when he go

To foreign countries,

He didn't go to stay

But do a little business,

And the return.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

It's a shame, his return

Didn't accept him,

From the island where he

Come frome.

It's a shame, his return

Didn't accept him,

From the island where he

Come frome.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

And they turn their back

Against him,

And they criticize him.

And they turn their back

Against him,

And they criticize him.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where reggae

Music spring from.

So we rise up from this

Little island, where Marcus

Garvey come from.

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