Words of The Week: 'Mosiah Chant' by Yahadanai

'MOSIAH CHANT'

Teach the likkle children about him
Show the likkle children about him
Marcus Garvey!
Fighting to set the captive free
Yeah yeah

Teach the likkle children about him
I can hear them shouting
Marcus Garvey!
Fighting to set the captives free
Hey yeah

MARCUS MARCUS MOSIAH
Blackness to the highest power
Trod through the valley and he walks through the burning fire
Give him the praise and honour
Red, Black and Green banner
Prophet with thunder shout
Casting downpressors under
Mentally Black Starliner
Must know thyself, don’t slumber
Up ye mighty people and bruk out from the grips of Caeser
In order to triump, we need togetherness mental agriculture
Repatriation!
Dat a Marcus code yeah
Black liberation, justice unfolds
United Nubians, dat a di Itation
Keep in striving until we forward home
Oooh

Teach di likkle children
Marcus Garvey!
Fighting to set the captive free
Oh yeah
Teach di likkle children about him
Teach dem about Marcus
Teach di likkle children about him
Marcus Garvey!
Fighting to set the captive free
Oooh

Nah bodda wait until yuh back against the wall
Look towards Ithiopia, ancestors ah call
Marcus shall rain, thundah ball
Him stand up on di battlefield uprightly and worldly nah stall
Even though many tried to diss him, inna dem schism and dem propaganda spreading
Jah Marcus always reigneth in the hearts of Black People with assurance forever
A nation without culture is like a tree without roots
A mind without knowledge is like a house with a roof
Teach di children about his works and philosophy
Forever sailing on that incient sea
I know that Jah Jah will give us all the victory
Prophet Marcus!
He will ever will be
He he he
And his Black family
Oooh

Teach di likkle children about him
Show di likkle children about him
Marcus Garvey!
Fighting to set di captive free
Oooh

Teach di likkle children about him
Show di likkle children about him
Marcus Garvey!
Fighting to set the captive free
Hey -

Taken from Yahadanai's album "One Atonement"