A Song of Freedom (A Tribute to Marley)

A Song of Freedom (A Tribute to Marley)
July 30, 2014 at 2:06am
A Song of Freedom

Young people everyday
Denied our chance to have our say
Old men playing poli-tricks
Keeping the bright lights at bay
Living cold war relics
Pouring defamation and scorn
Labels flyin’ lef and right
“Clinton Urling drinking soup”
“Blue Caps is a PNC group”
“These guys are a PPP ploy”
“Notice the Cap blue,
Yankee funding them fuh true”

Old men blind to truth
Denying the evidence
Right across the land
Young people fed up of this place
All of our thoughts are not based on race
We are waking up to the fact
All the old men actions are based on that
Time to make them understand
Is a hundred and twenty seven thousand
Mix raced children in the land
It is plain for all to see
Nuff “One Love” pickney

Time to stop playing games
Dropping hints and talking names
Creating a false divide
“look a blackman , run and hide”
“coolie man robbing we, he mekkin’ all the money”
Enough of that old time scam
Time for the Guyanese youth to take a stand
One people, One nation and a New Destiny

These old men holding on tight
They will not give sway
Without a fight
Everyday Goat man firin’ bite
Clear the way Donald say
Who get lick down I don’t kay
Congress men lock you out
Treat you like dirt
And kick you out
One man election sealed your fate
It’s your integrity you sell
When you say “all is well”
Young people are not buying this
Eye pass and disrespectfulness
We want leaders to be more
Than cheap power hungry whores

Walk away from the old order
Stand with the rest of us
Independent and not for sale
A new consciousness
Driven by vision
Of a better life
For this small family
A day when it could be said
“Blackman, Coolie man an’ Massa day done”
The Guyanese race is the only one
A rainbow people united as one
Singing the lines
The Prophet of another time
‘Won’t you help to sing, these songs of Freedom?”