Unknown Soldier

Make you no go anywhere Just wait make I tell you something Fela, you don come again! I never come again I still live dey faraway Make you wait till I reach where I dey go Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Don't ask me Where you dey go? Wait and see Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Don't ask me Where you dey go? Wait and see Where you dey go? I say, I say, I say... Make you no go anywhere Just wait make I tell you something Fela, you don come again! I never come again I still live dey faraway Make you wait till I reach where I dey go Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Don't ask me Where you dey go? Wait and see Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Don't ask me Where you dey go? Don't ask me Where you dey go? Make I reach Where you dey go? Don't ask me Where you dey go This thing wey happen Happen for my country Na big big thing First time in the whole world If you hear the name, you go know Government magic Tell me the name now Government magic! Them go dabaru everything Government magic Them go turn green into white Government magic Them go turn red into blue Government magic Water dey go, water dey come Government magic Water dey go, water dey come Government magic Them go turn electric to candle Government magic Them go turn electric to candle Government magic Government magic Government magic Government magic Government magic I see dey come Small, small Look o, look o Left, right, left, right, left, right, left! One thousand soldiers them dey come Left, right, left, right, left, right, left People dey wonder, dey wonder, dey wonder Left, right, left, right, left, right, left One more time: people dey wonder, dey wonder, dey wonder Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Stevie Wonder dey there too Na one week after FESTAC too And dey broadcast on American satellite Around that time too now, I say to you Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Where these one thousand soldiers them dey go? Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Look o Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Na Fela house Kalakuta Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Them don reach the place, them dey wait Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Them dey wait for... Order! Now listen Left, right, left, right, left, right, left! Them surround the place, kwam kwam kwam, them dey wait Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Wait them helmet and them guns And them petrol and them matches Left, right, left, right, left, right, left Then again... Stand at ease! Fela dey for house Beko dey there too Them mama dey there too Beautiful people dey there too Frenchman dey there too Press man dey there too One-fifty of us dey there too Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly... Jaba, jaba... Jubu, jubu... Jebe, jebe... Jawa, jawa... Them dey break, yes Them dey steal, yes Them dey loot, yes Them dey fuck some of the women by force, yes Them dey rape, yes Them dey burn, yes Them dey burn, yes Them dey burn, yes Them commot one student's eye, yes Them break some some head Them break some some head Them throw my mama Seventy-eight-year-old mama Political mama Ideological mama Influential mama... Them throw my mama out from window Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them kill my mama Them carry everybody Them carry everybody go inside jail Fall out! Everybody dey inside jail We dey wait twenty-seven days Them lock us Press dey shout Radio dey ring People dey talk Them go burn Fela house Wettin this Fela do? This government e bad o Wetin this Fela do? Fela talk about soldiers Flogging civilians for streets Fela talk about government Wasting money for FESTAC Wetin this Fela do? This government e bad o People start to talk o Government start to shake o Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly... Government bring instruments of magic Them bring inquiry Them bring two men One soldier, one Justice The name of Justice: Mr. Justice Agwu Anya The other Justice: Mr. Justice Dosunmu Them start magic Them seize my house wey them don burn Them seize my land Them drive all the people wey live in area Two thousand citizens Them make them all homeless now Them start magic Them start magic Them bring flame, them bring hat Them conjure, them bring rabbit Them bring egg, them bring smoke Them dey scream, them dey fall Them conjure, spirit catch them Them dey fall, them dey scream Them dey shout Them dey, them dey say Unknown soldier! Na him do am Government magic I get some information for you I get some information for you That my mama wey you kill She fought for universal adult suffrage That my mama wey you kill She fought for universal adult suffrage That my mama wey you kill She is the only mother of this country That my mama wey you kill She is the only mother of Nigeria Which kind injustice is this? Wetin concern government inside? If na unknown soldier I said, wetin concern government inside? If na unknown soldier We get unknown police We get unknown soldier We get unknown civilian All is equal to unknown government We get unknown police Them go kill nine students We get unknown civilian Them go kill two soldiers We get unknown soldier I say unknown police And then unknown soldier And then unknown civilian All is equal to unknown government Them turn green into red Them turn blue into white Them turn green into blue I'm finished, mother