Handsworth Revolution

Album: Handsworth Revolution (1978)
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  • I say the people of Handsworth
    Knows that toe hand wash the other so they say
    So let's join hands, my bredren
    Make the way for our children (our children, our children)
    And their children (their children, their children)
    Ensuring that they get life's fair share of
    Equality
    Doesn't justice stand for all?
    Doesn't justice stand for all?
    Doesn't justice stand for all mankind?
    We find society putting us down
    Crowning us, crowning us, crowning us, crowning us
    A place of evil, oh, oh
    Handsworth means us the Black people
    Handsworth means us the Black people
    We're talking now
    Speaking Jah Jah language

    Long, long way we're coming from
    To send this message across, across
    Been hidden, forbidden, concealed, unrevealed
    It's got to come out in the open that

    Babylon is falling
    Babylon is falling

    It was foolish to build it on the sand
    Handsworth shall stand firm like Jah rock
    Fighting back
    We once beggars are now choosers
    No intention to be losers
    Striving forward with ambition
    And if it takes ammunition
    We rebel in Handsworth revolution
    Handsworth revolution
    Handsworth, yeah, yeah, revolution
    Handsworth revolution
    Revolution

    Dread town, dread town, dread town
    Dread town, dread town, dread town

    Dread we are for a cause
    Deprived of many things
    Experienced phony laws
    Hatred Babylon brings
    We know what you've got to offer
    We know what's going on
    Don't want no favors
    'Cause there's still hunger
    Innocent convicted
    Poor wage, hard labor
    Only Babylon prospers
    And the humble suffer
    They are my brothers, yeah, in South Africa
    One Black represent all, all over the world
    Can't bear it no longer
    Blessed with the power
    Of Jah Creator
    We will get stronger
    And we will conquer
    And forward ever, and backward never
    Handsworth revolution
    Handsworth revolution
    Handsworth, yeah, yeah, yeah, revolution
    Handsworth, yeah, yeah, yeah, revolution

    Revo-, revo-, revolution
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    Revo-, revo-, revolution Writer/s: Alphonso Martin Martin, Basil Gabbidon, David Robert Hinds, Mike S Riley, Ronnie McQueen, Selwyn Brown, Steve Nesbitt
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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