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    Third world people
    Remember where ya comin' from
    Third world people
    Know where you belong

    Mother Country, Mother Country
    We 'ave been told
    That it's England, France, Germany, Portugal
    Since the days of old

    But I know that
    Life could not start in a refrigerator
    Has to be in an incubator

    So mark I words
    Mark these words
    Well - I'n'I could never be the Third

    Third world people
    Remember where ya comin' from
    Third world people
    Know where you belong

    Father Country, my father country!
    I've been told, time and time again
    Says America, France, Germany, Portugal
    Netherlands, Italy or Spain

    But I know that it's
    Hungry Europe, Barren Asia
    And Bountiful Africa

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    So you see
    Now you know who is first
    Well - I'n'I could never be the worst

    Third world people
    Remember where ya comin' from
    Third world people
    Know where you belong

    Ooooooooooh
    Ooooooooooh
    Ooooooooooh
    OOOOOOOOOOh

    They want to keep you down in perpetual
    Insecurity, ignorance and poverty
    By keeping the pressure on the innocent ones
    Continually
    This can't go oooon!

    Third world people
    I'n'I - Remember where ya comin' from
    Bona fide, dis - Third world people
    Know where you belong

    Ooooooooooh
    Ooooooooooh
    Ooooooooooh
    Ooooooooooh

    Civilisation did not go up the Nile
    It went down the Nile
    And it reached Europe last

    So if you not 'ave the roots
    You just can't know the
    Just can't know the truth, now

    Africa - my country, my land
    Africa - where the plants come from, I love to be
    Africa - our wonderful Africa
    Where the gold comes from
    The diamonds come from
    The platinum, the lignum, the oil, the rubber
    Ya name it
    We got it, we got it, we got it, we got it

    Ooooooooooh
    Ooooooooooh (Repeat until fade)
    (Break)

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

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    Composition: Jimmy Cliff

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