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Coolie Baby
Toots & The Maytals
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I wake up early one morning
Then I went down to sunny town
To look for a friend of mine
Who called me midnight
Then we started to have a little talk
About everything
About the situation
And this is what he said
He told me famine, famine, famine
Famine and the land
I said the cost of living
Getting so high, high, high
Getting so high, high, high
Lord, so high
I said the cost of living
Getting so high, high, high
Then I trod down to all over
To look for my brother John
To ask him for his life
And things and things and things
Then we started to have a little talk
About everything
About the situation
And this is what he said
He told me famine, famine, famine
Famine and the land
I said the cost of living
Getting so high, high, high
Getting so high, high, high
Lord, so high
I said the situation
Getting so high, high, high
Then I trod down to Carindale
To look for my family
Into a little street called Train Life
That's where I was born
Then we started to have a little talk
Together, together
About the situation
And this is what they said
They told me famine, famine, famine
Famine and the land
I said the cost of living
Getting so high, high, high
Really so high, high, high
Ooh, so high
I said the cost of living
Getting so high, high, high
Getting so high