Tonalité : Eb major
Verse 1
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In
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Jamaica we call it dungeon
But the
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British man him call it dungeon
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If it got them sanctioned
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If you saw what took place down in
Cape
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Coast dungeon
If you saw what took place
down in the dungeon
Man blood clot up dick
down in this dungeon
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Black man blood turn up thick in the dungeon
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I can see the sign of torture down in this
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Dungeon
You can smell the smell of stale blood down
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In the dungeon
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Nowhere to turn, yet so much in there
No where to sit down,
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all must be standing
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Straight after that the
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ship was anchored
They go to a short doorway
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called bent to fit
And nowadays them dress it up
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and they call it benefit
I don't want no benefit
And nowadays
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Babylon dress it up and
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call it benefit
I don't want no benefit
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Give me equal rights and justice
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I don't want no benefit
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I don't want no benefit
Give me equal rights and justice
I don't want no benefit
I don't want no benefit
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For it's the same old strategy they use
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Down in the dungeon
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The same dirty strategy they use
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Born in the dungeon
Vamos!
And as for the woman
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partite you see
It's short like a one foot rule
Nobody can stand up and
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hear me man
Or be a be born under that
and hear me man
Sure, man know yourself
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here man
They refused to ask me my
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name upon the slave ship
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Their minds told them to call me
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n***a and that was the end of it
Where is the dignity?
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You don't know my name
It take more intelligency to
find out my real name
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But if you see what went on down in the dungeon,
even on the sea
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If you see what went on,
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on those slave ships, on the journey
Man get dead and beaten and then
throw him overboard
Women still never get to deliver their
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nine- month- old child
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Children born under the
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agony of life
Fathers see children and cannot
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even own their wives
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Equal rights and justice stand for
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all right and badum chin
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Equal rights and justice stand for
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all right and badum chin
And yet them rub it off and show
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me another something
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Yet dem abolish it from my eyes,
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show me nuh die something
So me
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Sachin who him wantanty
Indian man who him
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Hindustani
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But dem beat our language
from you and me
What a slavery, what happened to
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Ishi you and me
They beat us in slavery,
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and want us to be quiet under captivity
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If you saw what went down there in the dungeon,
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my lord, they have a church upstairs and ballin'
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Downstairs
They are preachin' the gospel
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and sellin' blood downstairs
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