Now if you are black and wish that you were not
Then you are a coconut
No better than a chocolate Bounty
Come now!
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Some people wanna be white
Even though them black
Them no like look inna the mirror and see say them nose flat
Black history, them no waan know that
If you tell them say them African, them tell you say them not
Give them saltfish and ackee, them a bawl out, "Yack!"
Rice and peas, them no waan none of that
Fried dumpling never touch fi them pot
And them never put them foot inna black food shop
But if you give them fish and chips, them mouth run water
Start lick them lips, start rub hands together
"Pass me the salt," them say, "pass me the vinegar
This will go down nice with a cold pint of lager"
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I was walking down the road
Just the other day
Sight a black man, he was coming my way
So me say, "Irie, man, how is life out there?"
And him screw up him face like him no know wha' me a say
Him say, "I beg your pardon, I don't understand this
Could you kindly refer to me in English?
I was born in England and I am a Methodist
I don't understand your native language"
Me say, "Cut the crap 'bout you can't understand
Me know your mother and father born in Kingston
A who you think you is and where you think you come from?
If a style you a popping, then you popping it wrong
You a..."
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The other day me a talk to a black woman
She a tell me say she no waan no black man
How them too out of order and ignorant
And every one of them have five different woman
Me say, "How you so fool so? You have a cheek
Can't judge all black man by the ones that you meet
You want the pork instead of the beef
By the way, who tell you white man don't cheat?
You a..."
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Malcolm X, him woulda turn inna him grave
Martin Luther King, him woulda turn inna him grave
Marcus Garvey, him woulda turn inna him grave
C.P. Cuttin' woulda turn inna him grave
Harriet Tubman, she woulda turn inna her grave
Yahsontwe woulda turn inna her grave
Shaka Zulu woulda turn inna him grave
If him coulda see how some black people a behave
'Cause a lot of people died so that we could be free
Free to walk the streets without brutality
Free to have fi we own identity
Free to control our own destiny
So just hold up your head and show up your face
Show the whole world that you're proud of your race
Put all the coconuts inna them place
'Cause a black coconut is just a waste of space
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Some of them outside black
But it's white they wanna be
Coming like a chocolate Bounty
Outside black
But it's white they wanna be
Coming like a chocolate Bounty
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