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Slave Driver
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Damian Marley
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VERSE (Stephen Marley)
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Every time I hear the crack of a whip
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My blood runs cold
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I remember on the slave ship
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How they brutalized our very soul
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Today they say that we are free
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Only to be chained in poverty
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Good god I think it's illiteracy
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Only a machine that makes
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CHORUS
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Slave driver
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Your table has turned
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Catch a fire
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Your gonna get burned
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Slave driver
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Your table has turned
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Catch a fire
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Your gonna get burned
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VERSE
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Now dem take up the ghetto youths
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And gi dem pure magazine
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And take up another set
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And gi dem pure 16
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And play dem dirty games
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Of bloody plots and schemes
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And watch dem like a show
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Ah harbor view big screen
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And con mi brother dem
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And go buy dem cream
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And turn dem inna police
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And bring dem in pon dem team
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Ah wah dis father
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Him drive10 grand
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Worth ah government Lada
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And fight against the ones who
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Have the same forefather
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Him next door neighbor
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All weed we charge for
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We children slaughter
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Ah we dem want murder
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Just read di observer
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Right now the city can't get no absurder
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After 400 years and whole heap ah brown sugar
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We ambush we brother
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And go on like never
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Used to plan slavery revolt
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Inna di bush dem together
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We change just like di weather
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VERSE (Stephen Marley)
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CHORUS
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Sons of slaves chant down sons of di slave driver
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Nah spear slave rider neither
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And if dem could dem would tax you pon saliva
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How much more must we die for
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The ones in the car while we're standing at the terminus
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The government bogus
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They don't work for us
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Instead dem chain and whip we with domestic fuss
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And guns and aids and drugs
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Cause most of di youths wid di schooling dem have
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Can't get no money from legitimate jobs
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Then you wonder why dem grab chain and bags
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You influence the youths fi turn gays and fags
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Or else dem caní•t afford not even torn up rags
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But table ah turn as mi turn table spun
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Di fire we ah catch up all a blaze and ah bun
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Dats why any time you see Rasta you run
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VERSE (Stephen Marley)
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We nuh want no Babylon government
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Weh ah burn down ganja man tent
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And den ah come wid dem one bag ah tax argument
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When we can't pay light bill and rent
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Mi sight dem ah lead ghetto youths
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Every which part dem went
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And ah pure wrong corner dem bent
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So next time, dem pass thru you and your crew
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Don't give dem no encouragement
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A YO!
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Just start run dem out
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And start bun dem out
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Ah your environment
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A YO!
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We want know bout ah
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Every red cent out ah
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Poor people money dem spent
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And then
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We want know down who
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Pay di bills when the prime minister car dent
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And then
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We want know when dem ah come reposes
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All these guns and drugs they've sent
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