Slave Trade (feat. The Jewels)

Children of the Slave Trade

You hear what the mighty Jewels say

Well

Yeh yeh yeh yeh

Nu-now

Well

Children of the slave trade (oo-ee)

We are in (captive)

Ooh yeh yeh yeh yeh

I said now children of the slave trade (oo-ee)

We are (captive)

Ooh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh

I said they take us from our fore-parents land

And take us on a ship called Jesus

(SS Jesus) from Lübeck

(SS Jesus) from Lübeck

And they take us beyond the Caribbean coast

Trying to lock I and I away from our culture and our religion

(They treated us)

They treated us

(With brutality)

With brutality

(And they treated us)

And they treated us

(With no humanity)

No humanity

(Now we're on ya)

Now we're on ya

(As free-man fighters)

As free-man fighter

(We're on ya)

Now we're on ya

(As free-man fighters)

As free-man fighter I say now

Children of the slave trade (ooh-yeh)

We are in (captive)

Shoo-be-doop

Shoo-be-doo, doo, doo

Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-oh-oh

Shoo be doop, doop

Shoo-be-doo-be-doo

Shoo-be-doo-do-do

Shoo-be-doo, ay-ay, ay

Shoo be doo, doo, doo

She-doo-be-do-be-do

Shoo-be-doo, ay

Shoo be doo, doo, doo

She-doo-be-do-be-do

Ay ay

Hear this ya dub

Come and let us dance to this dub

Hear this ya dub

Ooh yee, well

They take us from our fore-parents land

Ay ay

And take us on a ship called Jesus

(SS Jesus) from Lübeck

(SS Jesus) from Lübeck

And they take us beyond the Caribbean coast, yeh

Trying to lock I and I away, from our culture and our religion

(They treated us)

They treated us

(With brutality)

With brutality

(And they treated us)

And they treated us

(With no humanity)

No humanity

(Now we're on ya)

Now we're on ya

(As free-man fighters)

As free-man fighter

(We're on ya)

Now we're on ya

(As free-man fighters)

As free-man fighter I say now

Children of the Slave Trades, ooh yeh

We are in (captive)

Children of the slave trade

We're all in captive

In Africa we stand

Children of the slave trades

Ay ay ay ay

Children of the slave trade

We all in captive, captive, captive

Hear this ya dub

Come and let us dance to this dub