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Clegg Johnny
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Third World Child
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Third World Child
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Bits of songs and broken drums
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Are all he could recall
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So he spoke to me
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In a bastard tongue
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Carried on the silence of the guns
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"It's been a long long time
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since they first came
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And marched through our village
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They taught us to forget our past
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And live the future in their image"
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Chorus
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They said
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'You should learn to speak a little bit of English
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Don't be scared of a suit and tie.
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Learn to walk in the dreams of the foreigner
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-- I am a Third World Child
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The Outworld's dreams are the currency
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That grip the city streets
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I live them out
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But I have my own
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Hidden somewhere deep inside of me
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In between my father's fields
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And the citadels of the rule
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Lies a no-man's land which I must cross
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To find my stolen jewel.
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They said
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'You should learn to speak a little bit of English
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Maybe practise birth control
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Keep away from controversial politics
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So to save my third world soul
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Chorus
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They said
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'You should learn to speak a little bit of English
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Don't be scared of a suit and tie.
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Learn to walk in the dreams of the foreigner
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-- I am a Third World Child
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Wo ilanga lobunzima
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Nalo liyashona
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Ukuthini asazi
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Musa Ukukhala
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Mntanami
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Bits of songs and broken drums
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Are all he could recall
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But the future calls his name
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Out loud
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Carried on the violence of the guns
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