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Artist: Eddie Murphy
Canonical path: /eddie-murphy/oh-jah-jah
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Oh Jah Jah
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Oh Jah Jah
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Yuh know
Hear me now
Oh jah, jah jah, jah jah
Jah jah, jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah! Sing it loud
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah!
Goodness gracious, lord have mercy
The devil's on the move
And the world's gone crazy, yeah
Police in the streets shooting down black babies
Glory hallelujah for the young and the innocent
Run for your life, the time has come
For us to strengthen our defenses
Hey babylon, you know it won't be long
Oh, before we'll be going back to zion, soon
We leaving babylon
And going back to zion
We leaving babylon y'all
And going back to zion
Yeah, we are
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah!
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah!
Goodness gracious, lord have mercy
You know a never, ever
Never let the devil get the best of me, yeah
I saw the preacher taking nickles from the welfare babies
Go, go daddy, go jah
For the young and the innocent, yeah
Protect the right, reject the wrong,
It offends my senses
Hey babylon, you know it won't be long
Oh, before we'll be going back to zion, soon
We leaving babylon
And going back to zion, yeah
We leaving babylon y'all
And going back to zion
Yeah, we are
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah! Sing it for the lord's sake
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah!
Goodness gracious, lord have mercy.. Yeah!
Goodness gracious, lord have mercy.. Yeah!
Sing it y'all
Goodness gracious, lord have mercy.. Yeah!
Goodness gracious, lord have mercy.. Yeah!
Yeah, hear me now, oh my lord
I feel the spirit of the lord
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah!
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Oh jah jah, oh jah jah
Yeah!
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