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Johnny Was
Bob Marley
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The unity must have to start now
'Cause I mean, how long would we have to suffer?
Let us learn these things that we must be united
That's right
Truly, we're involved in a struggle
So what we going to do?
We got to make it right for our people
For our forefathers and mothers (ooh)
That's right (ooh,must be united)
For the seeds (ooh,must be united)
Spiritual warriors (must be united, ooh)
Woman hold her head and cried (ooh)
Because her son had been shot down in the street and died (ooh)
From a stray bullet
Woman hold her head and cried
Explaining to her was a passer-by (ooh, ooh)
Who saw the woman cry
Wondering
How can she work it out (how can she work it out)
Now she knows not the wager of turning them (ooh, ooh)
Her gift of love is life (life)
She cried
Oh ummm, how
Johnny was a good man
How
Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good good, good
Good, good, good, good, good, good, man
Johnny was a good man
She cried
She cried
Any attempt to change my stance son, would be futile
Ma, things for you would never get easier ooow child
Supreme the colour scheme
Why brothers die with dirty cream
They avoid - dreams
But they obtained by worthy beings
Homicide statistics, obituary columns (ooh)
Numerous things listed (ooh)
Different violent types of behavior depicted (ooh)
They murdered my brethren
He was a good man
Protected his fam, we all respected this man
Still his life got held up like liquor stores
Or old school jams
What goes around re-surfaces (ooh)
Now is't worth it kid do?
Do you all - wanna get out the game? (ooh)
I know you nervous kid
Are you caught up
Like my boy Bokeem in the flick
Plus we know reality is much more worse and much more sick
Your cerebral eye probe vocals, can't touch your ear-lobes (ooh)
Destroying all microbes (ooh)
The ill dynamic psycho (ooh)
Analyst, so understand it this (ooh)
Beautiful world as we know it, is definitely at risk (ooh)
Righteous soldiers professed to be triumphant at battle (ooh)
Loud cries from the cell, many cages rattle
Fire radiates heat, ice radiates cold
I radiate thoughts and ideas all things with in my control (ooh ah)
Some men travel down twisted roads (yea I know)
And innocent lives get lost (I know, I know now)
May Ja, bless his soul
Johnny was a good man (then I know)
How
Never did a thing wrong
How
Johnny was a good man
Kinda woman's tender care, keep crying
These two was the child she bare
Ooh, a woman's tender care
Seem to all the child she bare
Woman cry just like I am there (Thomas did you like that)
Word is bond he was a good man (ooh ah)
So is my man BIG (ooh ah)
Rest in peace BIG (ooh ah)
So is my man Pac (ooh ah)
Rest in peace Pac (ooh, rest in peace Pac)
So was so many other brothers (ooh ah)
Too numerous to mention (ooh ah, to numerous to mention)
Time is now (ooh ah, time is now)
For us to fight for what is ours, rightfully (ooh ha rightfully)
As was prophesied from the beginning (beginning, ooh ah)
So shall it be (so shall it be, ooh ah)
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