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Artist: Peter Broggs
Canonical path: /peter-broggs/you-ve-got-to-be-wise
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You've Got To Be Wise
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You've Got To Be Wise
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You've go to be wise to live in this time,
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens, and my sistrens (Lord).
You've go to be wise to live in this time,
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens, and my sistrens (Lord).
The heathens are more than the locks off I head, don't want to see I&I achieve no bread.
They don't want to give us opportunity,
Only want to treat us with brutality.
Don't want to share equality, yeah.
Only want to see Jah children in poverty.
That's what them want them to see.
That's what them want them to see.
To see Jah children in poverty.
You've go to be wise to live in this time,
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens, and my sistrens.
You've go to be wise to live in this time,
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens, and my sistrens.
Got to be wise,
Got to be wise.
The heathens are more than the locks off I head, don't want to see I&I achieve no bread.
They don't want to give us opportunity,
Only want to treat us with brutality.
Don't want to share equality, yeah.
Only want to see Jah children in poverty.
That's what them want them to see.
That's what them want them to see.
That's what them want them to see.
That's what them want them to see.
To see Jah children in poverty.
You've go to be wise to live in this time,
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens, and my sistrens.
You've go to be wise to live in this time,
Got to be wise to even survive, my idrens, and my sistrens.
Got to be wise,
Got to be wise.
To live in this time,
To even survive.
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