Oh if I knew yesterday what I know now Things would be different Today would be excellent of course They took us away from our homeland They took us away from our homeland And we are slaving down here in Babylon And we are slaving down here in Babylon They are waiting on an opportunity They are waiting on an opportunity For the Black Starliner which is to come For the Black Starliner which is to come Not long Jah Jah Jah Jah not long Not long Jah Jah Jah Jah not long We are waiting on the Black Starliner And we are still waiting on the Black Starliner Wait on Jah Wait on His works I meekly wait and murmur not I meekly wait and murmur not For the Black Starliner shall come For the Black Starliner must come Still waiting on that opportunity We are still waiting on the same opportunity For the Black Starliner which is to come For the Black Starliner which is to come Marcus say so Oh land of Africa Holy Mount Africa We want, we want to go We want, we want to go Sierra Leone and Ghana Zimbabwe, Ethiopia We want, we want to go (in a Kenya) We want, we want to go They took us away from our homeland They took us away from our homeland And we are slaving down here in Babylon Don't want to be slaving down here in Babylon Ethiopia stretch forth her hands Ghana, say come home brother We are slaving down here in Babylon And we are slaving down here in Babylon We want go eat fufu and palm wine Eat some nice fish and have nice time We are slaving down here in Babylon [brotherman] We are slaving down here in Babylon Want go look nice ladies Want to see mother with their babies We are slaving down here in Babylon This is eternal hell We are slaving down here in Babylon Nothing for us We are slaving down here in Babylon And it a run red We are slaving down here in Babylon