Bra Fie-Fuse Odg/Damian "Jr Gong" Marley

[00:09.37]I made it quite clear [00:11.75]That from now on – today [00:14.67]We must change our attitudes, our minds [00:19.31]We must realise that from now on [00:21.75]We are no more a colonial but a free and independent people [00:25.97]We are prepared to pick it up [00:28.43]And make it a nation that will be respected [00:30.93]By every other nation in the world [00:33.41]Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world! [00:37.12]That new African is ready to fight his own battles [00:41.77]And show that after all, [00:43.20]The black man is capable of managing his own affairs [00:46.06]We are going to demonstrate to the world [00:49.02]That we are going to create our own African personality and identity [00:54.18]Our independence is meaningless [00:58.14]Unless it is linked up [00:59.24]With the total liberation of the African continent [01:17.77]Take the shackles off my feet [01:20.33]Make I go, make I go [01:22.76]It's a battle with the beast [01:25.14]Take your shield, help me go [01:27.68]Kwame Nkrumah takeover [01:30.07]New Africa, makeover [01:32.32]Let's bow our heads and pray oh lord [01:34.81]Our father help us fight the war [01:37.25]Bra fie ooo, bra fie [01:40.30]Bra fie na yɛ twɛn woo [01:42.35]Bra fie ooo, bra fie [01:44.60]Bra fie na yɛ twɛn woo [01:58.59]Oh yes, thank you [02:01.19]I'm a human being in Africa [02:03.75]But a black man in America [02:06.40]African in England [02:08.61]Don't forget where you are from [02:11.28]Ghana down to Suriname [02:13.71]Taken from our motherland [02:16.16]Don't forget your mother tongue [02:18.48]Please don't shoot me, we are one [02:20.84]Bra fie ooo, bra fie [02:23.61]Bra fie na yɛ twɛn woo [02:26.06]Bra fie ooo, bra fie [02:28.31]Bra fie na yɛ twɛn woo [02:30.61]Bra fie ooo, bra fie [02:33.13]Bra fie na yɛ twɛn woo [02:35.56]Bra fie ooo, bra fie [02:38.02]Bra fie na yɛ twɛn woo [02:52.56]Now have a look through history's binoculars [02:55.96]And please don't tell me you've forgotten us [02:58.29]Your last children living anonymous [03:00.65]In a very strange land where dem carried us [03:03.15]And it must be a natural phenomenon [03:05.52]How we still can remember where we're coming from [03:07.98]Even tru the brainwashing curriculum [03:10.26]Up through the ages and milleniums [03:12.81]Last 400 years has been fabulous [03:15.21]We been working as slaves, living ravenous [03:17.72]But to overdo ya stay can be hazardous [03:20.05]Now a time fi go home thanks for having us [03:22.64]Please make a ya promise o promised land [03:25.00]And welcome me home any time I land [03:27.44]And make I feel like I belong with us [03:29.88]Until that day, no giving up [03:35.93]Ghana is free forever