Ship Ahoy

A thousand cultures stolen ships that came sailing

Sighted from the shoreline people stood waiting

But armies came invading and raiding to conquer

Understood nothing of a land that stood longer

But might was much stronger than right could ever be

Took away the land planned a new destiny

Butchery and murder and still I say murder

Butchery and murder and still I say murder

Wait! Hold up cos Phrase will break the mould

Culture growing stronger aging never old

Death accelerating, and I don't want to die

Fish hooked by a ship, Lord take me where I lie

Gone where the lucky ones, disease or suicide

The pride of survivors to cry for those that died

To resurrect the status and overcome the ploy

No bells or beads to barter for this young black boy

Ship ahoy

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die

Ship ahoy

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die

Gone are the days now the ships cease to sail

I don't think so what does a wage entail

Nine of five slavery or a twenty four seven

Most slaves tricked by the promise of a heaven

Controlled by the sound of a whip that goes sack

Mind - forged manacles make sure there's no slack

Think your not a slave, cos no whip marks your back

Now a bureaucrat wields the nine tails of the cat

Ain't nothing changed but the weather the song remains the same

Hollis comes left set up upon the Lamebrain

You can't tame the beast, the beast can't be changed

Have to smash the system, wisdom rearranged

Slavery claimed to be histories mystery

Wished it could be....It's still part of we

Search and look around my birthplace is torn

But England has fallen dusk negates dawn

Ship ahoy

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die

Ship ahoy

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die

Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, now they call it perestroika

Mandela's free but still can't stop the slaughter

Now they call it free trade, free choice for all

But the real freedom is ten per cent small

Freedom is a song which the caged bird sings

They keep the key all we see is the keyring

Fooled by the glisten, but the glisten is not gold

And I will not buy the beads that I'm sold

I stand here stand clear truth be my witness

How many Hitlers before you see the litmus

Test I won't rest, slave who won't behave

And no I want not the freedom of the slave

If the East wants the beast let the beast roam

Cos in the East the death of the beast was sown

You can fool the people that they're equal

But you won't fool me with a sequel

Ship ahoy

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die.

Ship ahoy

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die.

Don't let my children die

Don't let my children die

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die.

don't let my children die

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don't let my children die

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don't let my children die

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