BLACK STALIN ~ CARIBBEAN MAN

Lyrics

Black Stalin - Caribbean Man

⦑ Verse 1 ⦒

Yuh try with a Federation

De whole thing end in confusion

Caricom and then Carifta

But somehow ah smelling disaster

Mister West Indian politician

Ah mean yuh went to big institution

An' how come yuh cyar unite seven million?

When a West Indian unity

I know is very easy

If yuh only rap to yuh people

An' tell dem like me

⦑ Chorus ⦒

Dem is one race (the Caribbean man)

From de same place (the Caribbean man)

Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)

On dе same ship (the Caribbean man)

So wе must push one common intention

For a better life in the region

For we woman

An' we children

Dat must be the ambition of the Caribbean man, the Caribbean man

⦑ Verse 2 ⦒

Yuh say dat the Federation

Was imported quite from England

An' yuh going and form a Carifta

With a true West Indian flavour

But since Carifta started runnin'

Morning, noon and night all I hearin'

Is just money speech dem Prime Ministers givin'

But I say no setta money could form a unity

First of all your people need

Their identity

⦑ Chorus ⦒

Like one race (the Caribbean man)

From de same place (the Caribbean man)

Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)

So we must push one common intention

For a better life in the region

For we woman

And we children

Dat must be the ambition of the Caribbean man

⦑ Verse 3 ⦒

Caricom is wasting time

The whole Caribbean gone blind

If we don't know from where we coming

Den we cyar plan where we going

Dat's why some want to be Communist

Some want want to be Socialist

And one setta religion to add to the foolishness

Look a man who don't know his history

Cyar form no unity

How could a man who don't know his roots

Form his own ideology?

⦑ Chorus ⦒

Like one race (the Caribbean man)

From de same place (the Caribbean man)

Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)

So we must push one common intention

For a better life in the region

For we woman

And we children

Dat must be the ambition of de Caribbean man

De caribbean man

De caribbean man

⦑ Verse 4 ⦒

De Federation done dead

An' Carifta going to bed

But the cult of the Rastafarian

Spreading through the Caribbean

It have rastas now in Grenada

It have rastas now in St. Lucia

But to run Carifta

Yes, you getting pressure

If the Rastafari movement spreading

And Carifta dying slow

Den it's something them rastas on

Dat dem politicians don't know

⦑ Chorus ⦒

Dat Dere's one race (the Caribbean man)

From de same place (the Caribbean man)

Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)

So they pushing one common intention

Is for a better life in the region

For dey woman

And dey children

Dat must be the ambition of de Caribbean man

De caribbean man

De Caribbean man