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Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Katsumoto: 9:22pm On Oct 06, 2010
Authority stealing Lyrics

You be thief (I no be thief)
You be rogue (I no be rogue)
You dey steal (I no dey steal)
You be robber (I no be robber)You be armed robber (No be armed robber)
I no be thief (You be thief)
I no be rogue (You be rogue)
I no dey steal (You dey steal)
I no be robber (You be robber)
I no be armed robber (You be armed robber)
[Chorus]
Argument, argument!
Argument, argument, argue
Them argue
Everbody dem argue
Them dem dem argue
Up and down them argue
Everbody dem argue
Them dem dem dem argue
Yes yes, them argue
Everbody dem argue
Argument about stealing
Somebody don take something
Wey belong to another person
Then you go hear:
You be thief (I no be thief),
On top of the road, on the side
People dey waka
Office workers, labourer workers, workers' workers
Them go dey waka
Inside bus them go dey
Motorcycle them dey ride
Plenty, plenty crowd
Inside this crowd
Sometimes for one corner
Sometimes for one street
You go dey hear: ha ha!

I miss baba
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Katsumoto: 9:26pm On Oct 06, 2010
TEACHER DON’T TEACH ME NONSENSE

A kujuba, A kujuba,
*[CHORUS]- EH____
(repeat 7x)
Yehhhh- eh!


Ke-re-KE, Ke-re-KE, Ke-re-KE, Ke-re-KE, Ke-re-KE, Ke-re-JI-KE-KE

*[CHORUS]- YAH
Ke-re-ke- JI- Ke-ke
CHORUS)- YAH
---------ke- JI- Ke-ke
*[CHORUS]- YAH
Ke-re-ke-KE- JI- Ke-ke
(repeat 3x)

Ke-RE-ke…

All the wahala**, all the problems, **(affliction/trouble)
All the things, all the things they go do,
For this world go start,
When the teacher, schoolboy & schoolgirl jam** together **(collide)

Who be teacher?
I go let you know,
(repeat 3x)

When we be pikin**, **[child]
*[CHORUS] ‘FATHA/ MAMA” BE TEACHER
When we dey for school
*[CHORUS] TEACHER BE TEACHER
When we dey University
*[CHORUS] LECTURER BE TEACHER
When we start to work
*[CHORUS] GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER
Who be government teacher?
*[CHORUS] CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION
Who be government teacher?
*[CHORUS] CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION
Cu-ulture and tradition
*[CHORUS] CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION
Cu-ulture and tradition
*[CHORUS] CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION

Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee
I go sing about
I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass
As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass
Da go for France

*[CHORUS] YES SIR (*after each line) [occassionally “YES MAAM”]
Engi-land
Italy
Germany
Na dem culture
For der’
Be teacher
For dem
Go China
Russia
Korea
Viet Nam
Na dem culture
For der’
Be teacher
For dem
Go Syria
Jordan
Iran
Iraq
Na dem culture
For der’
Be teacher
For dem

Let us face ourselves for Afrika
Na de matter of Afrika
This part-ee of my song
Na all the problems of this world
In we dey carry, for Afrika
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Katsumoto: 9:31pm On Oct 06, 2010
semid4lyfe:

Hmmm. . .my favourite has to be Beast of no nation. He addressed so many issues in that song - his time in prison (and how the outside world isn't better IHO), Botha & the aparthield regime in South Africa, WAI in Nigeria, the UN (and it's hypocrisy) etc etc

I think Beast of no nation is Fela's best song "politically".  

For some reason, I have to agree with you although I connect with all baba's songs

BEASTS OF NO NATION


Ah- Let’s get now into another, underground spiritual game
Just go to help me the answer, go to say, “Aiya-kata”- Oh ya

O’feshe-Lu
[CHORUS] AIYA-KATA *(after each line)
O’feshe- g’Ba
*(2x)

O’feshe-Woh
[CHORUS] AIYA-KATA *(after each line)
O’feshe-Weng
Aiya kata
Aiya Koto
Aiya Kiti
Aiya Kutu

O’feshe-Lu
[CHORUS] AIYA-KATA *(after each line)
O’feshe- g’Ba
*(2x)

Oh-----,

Basket mouth wan start to leak again, oh-
[CHORUS] BASKET MOUTH WAN OPEN MOUTH AGAIN, OH
Abi** you don forget I say I sing, ee-oh **(is it not)
[CHORUS] BASKET MOUTH WAN OPEN MOUTH AGAIN, OH
Oh, I sing, I say, I go my mouth like basket, ee-oh, Malan Bia-gbe-re
(stanza 2x)

Basket mouth wan start to leak again, oh-
[CHORUS] BASKET MOUTH WAN OPEN MOUTH AGAIN, OH

Fela, wetin you go sing about?
[CHORUS] DEM GO WORRY ME… *(after each line)
(3x)

Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry, worry, worry
[CHORUS] DEM GO WORRY ME *(After each line)
Dey wan to make us sing about prison
Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry all over da town
Dey wan to know about prison life
Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry all over da town
*(repeat stanza)

Fela, wetin you go sing about?
[CHORUS] DEM GO WORRY ME
Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry, worry, worry

The time weh I dey, for prison, I call am “inside world”
The time weh I dey outside prison, I call am “outside world”
Na craze world, na be outside world

[CHORUS] CRAZE** WORLD *(after each line) / **(crazy)
Na be outside- da police-i dey
Na be outside- da soldier dey
Na be outside- da court dem dey
Na be outside- da magistrate dey
Na be outside- da judge dem dey
Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- Buhari dey
Na craze man be dat
Animal in craze-man skin-i
Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- Idia-gbon dey
Na craze man be dat- oh
Animal in craze-man skin-i
Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- dem find me guilty
Na be outside- dem jail me five years
------------------I no do nothing
Na be outside-dem judge dey beg ee-o
Na craze world be dat, Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- dem kill dem students
Soweto, Zaria, and Ife
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat,
Na be outside- all dis dey happen
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh…,


Make you hear this one [sax responses]
War against indiscipline, ee-oh

Na Nigerian government, ee-oh
Dem dey talk ee-oh
“My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people are indiscipline”

Na Nigerian government, ee-oh
Dem dey talk be dat
“My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people are indiscipline”

I never hear dat before- oh
Make Government talk, ee-oh
“My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people are indiscipline”

Na Nigerian government, ee-oh
Dem dey talk be dat
Which kind talk be dat- oh?
Craze talk be dat ee-oh
Na animal talk be dat – oh
Na animal talk be dat – oh

[CHORUS] MANY LEADERS AS YOU SEE DEM
[CHORUS] NA DIFFERENT DISGUISE DEM DEY-OH
[CHORUS] ANIMALS IN HUMAN SKIN
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U TIE-OH
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I WEAR AGBADA
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U SUIT-U
*(2x- 2nd time with lead voc)

These disguising leaders ee-oh, na wah for dem [sax responses after each]
Dem-o hold meeting everywhere, dem reach America (2x stanza)

Dem call the place, the “United Nations” [sax responses after each]
Hear-oh another animal talk
Wetin united inside “United Nations”?
Who & who unite, for “United Nations”?
No be there Thatcher & Argentina dey
No be there Reagan & Libya dey
Is-i-rael versus Lebanon
Iran-i-oh versus Iraq-i
East West Block versus West Block East
No be there dem dey oh- United Nations
Dis “united” United Nations
One veto vote is equal to 92 […OR MORE, OR MORE]
What kind sense be dat, na animal sense (2x)

[CHORUS] MANY LEADERS AS YOU SEE DEM
[CHORUS] NA DIFFERENT DISGUISE DEM DEY-OH
[CHORUS] ANIMALS IN HUMAN SKIN
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U TIE-OH
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I WEAR AGBADA
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U SUIT-U
*(2x- 2nd time with lead voc)

Dem go hold meeting, oh, Dem go start yab human beings
Animal talk don start again
Dash dem, human rights

Dem go hold meeting, oh, Dem go start yab human beings
Animal talk don start again
Dash dem human rights
*(repeat stanza)

How animal go know-say dem no born me as slave?
How animal go know say slave trade don pass?
And, dey wan dash us human rights
Animal must talk to human beings
Give dem human rights

I beg-I, oh , make you hear me well-u well
I beg-I, oh, make you hear me very well

Human rights na my property
So therefore, you can’t dash me my property
Human rights na my property
Dey wan dash us human rights

Some people say, “Why I dey talk like dis,
No be talk like dis, dem take to carry me go prision ee-oh”
No be me dey talk, na Prime Minister Botha dey talk, ee-oh (2x)

Him say, “this uprising will bring out the beast in us”
[CHORUS] THIS UPRISING WILL BRING OUT THE BEAST IN US
(repeat stanza 3x)

Eh Ji Keke- my argument

Botha na friend to Thatcher & Reagan
Botha na friend to some other leaders too
And together dem wan dash us human rights
Animals wan dash us human rights
Animal can’t dash me human rights
Animal can’t dash us human rights

[CHORUS] MANY LEADERS AS YOU SEE DEM
[CHORUS] NA DIFFERENT DISGUISE DEM DEY-OH
[CHORUS] ANIMALS IN HUMAN SKIN
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U TIE-OH
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I WEAR AGBADA
[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U SUIT-U
*(2x- 2nd time with lead voc)

Beasts of no nation- Egbe Ke Gbe na bad society
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by fstranger3(m): 2:51am On Mar 06, 2011
God Bless Fela
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Nobody: 4:01pm On Sep 01, 2014
Great fela.
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Nobody: 4:09pm On Sep 01, 2014
Bluetooth2: That part is really emotional,i think he cried when he reached there
Jagajagajagajaga jogojogojogojogo oh oh jegejegejegejege
Yes them dey rob,
yes them dey loot
yes them dey fcxk some of we women by force x2
yes them break some some head
them throw my mama seventy eight years old mama
Seventy eighty years old mama
Ideology o mama
political o mama
Influential o mama
them throw my mama out from window
them kill my mama
them kill my mama
them kill my mama
them carry everybody go ooo inside jail e eh
fela dey inside jail, beko dey dia too.
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Nobody: 4:11pm On Sep 01, 2014
Bluetooth2: fela music on Arny conspiracy,missing monies and shagari election which is akin to late yardua's election.the funniest thing is that shagari was also imposed by OBJ
[b]Nigeria geti money,foreign currency for overseas x2
Annoucement start to happen
Newspaper carry dem paper
Radio dey shout for studio
Obasanjo turn into vocalist
Yardua turn into manager
70 billion naira missing
x2
Missing from oversea
foreign currency scandal
they start to arrest everybody o o
he no finish x6
doctor,lawyer,hustlers,engineer,photographers x2
all of them kirikiri,sent to 50 years in jail
After one year inside jail,civilian govt take over
them release all of them
they say them be innocent oh oh
e no finish x6
2.8 billion naira oil money is missing x2
they set up enquiry
they say money no lost o
they dabaru everybody
supervisor obasanjo
they say make he no talk o
money no lost them shout again
enquiry come close o o
e n finish x6

Election story n ko,obasanjo plan am well
election story n ko,obasanjo plan am well
He take old politicians wey ruin nigeria before
the same old politicain wey spoil nigeria before,obasanjo carry all of them
All of them dey there o o
e no finish x6[/b]

Obasanjo installed shagari in 1979
obasanjo installed late yardua in 2007
obasanjo plans to install jonathan in 2011
the whole thing is a deja vu as it occur many years ago
Fela is a great man !
oh my favourite.
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Bmark: 4:45pm On Sep 01, 2014
Pukkah: I like the flow of Confusion Break Bone (CBB).

For Ojuelegba, motor dey come from left, motor dey come from right, policeman no dey for centre, na confusion be dat o.
especially the part he sang double wahala for dead body... That part was hihly spiritual...not the brainless one orishafemi is singing today with no message
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by azimibraun: 5:37pm On Sep 01, 2014
palava
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by anago90: 5:54pm On Sep 01, 2014
nostalgic mehn!!! now that Nigeria music has gone to the dogs. officially Nigerian music is dead.
Re: Let's Talk About Fela's Political Lyrics. by Nobody: 7:08am On Jan 15, 2019
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O

ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O


Let's get down, to the underground spiritual game
We all sing together, play music together in happiness
All you have to do is sing what I play on my horn
Now Let's go...


A kujuba, A kujuba
YE-EHHHH!
Yehhhhhh-Ey!


Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!


All the wahala, all the problems,
All the things, all the things they go do,
For this world go start,
When the teacher, schoolboy and schoolgirl jam together
Who be teacher?
I go let you know


When we be pikin
FATHA/ MAMA BE TEACHER
When we dey for school
TEACHER BE TEACHER
Now dey University
LECTURER BE TEACHER
When we start to work
GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER


CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION (*after each line)
Who be government teacher?
Who be government teacher?
Cu-ulture and tradition
Cu-ulture and tradition


Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee
I go sing about
I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass
As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass
Da go for France


YES SIR/YES MAAM (*after each line)
Engi-land
Italy
Germany
Na dem culture
For der'
Be teacher
For dem
Go China
Russia
Korea
Viet Nam
Na dem culture
For der'
Be teacher
For dem
Go Syria
Jordan
Iran
Iraq
Na dem culture
For der'
Be teacher
For dem

Let us face ourselves for Afrika
Na de matter of Afrika
This part-ee of my song
Na all the problems of this world
In we dey carry, for Afrika
Wey no go ask-ee me


WHICH ONE? (*after each line)
Problems of inflation
Problems of corruption
Of mismanagement
Stealing by government
Nothing we dey carry
All over Afrika
Na de latest one
Na him dey make me laugh


AUSTERITY (*after each line)
Austeri-
Austeri-
Na him dey latest one
Na him dey make me laugh
Why I dey laugh?
Man no fit cry?


Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
A na false, the first election
And the second election held in Nigeria
Na the second election na it was pass


BOBA LA NONSENSE (*after each line)
Boba la nonsense
Boba la nonsense
He pass redeem
He pass corruption
Which kind election be dis?
People na go vote
Dem come get big big numbers
Thousands to thousands
Millions to billions
Which kind election be dis?
Boba la nonsense


Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
Who don teach us ee dem-o-cr-azy?
(Bo-ptch!) Oyinbo teach-ee us
(Yuh-ngh!) Oyinbo for Europe-oh
Oyinbo teach us many many things-ee
Many of dem things I don sing about-ee
Me I no gin copy Oyinbo style
Let us think say, Oyinbo no pass me
When Shagari finish him elections
Wey dem no tell am, say him make mistake-ee
Say this yo, no be democracy
Oyinbo dem no tell army self
Na for England-ee, I me no fit take over
I come think about this demo-crazy


Democrazy
DEMO-CRAZY (*after each line)
Crazy demo
Demonstration of craze
Crazy demonstration
If it no be craze
Why for Afrika?
As time dey go
Things just dey bad
They bad more and more
Poor man dey cry
Rich man dey mess
Demo-crazy
Democrazy
Crazy demo
Demonstration of craze
Crazy demonstration


If good-u teacher teach-ee something
And student make mistake
Teacher must talk-ee so
But Oyinbo no talk-ee so
I suffer dem, Dey suffer dem
Dem dey say da teaching get meaning
Different different meaning
Different different kinds of meaning
That is why I say
That is the reason of my song

That is the conclude
The conclud-ee of my song

I say, I sing, I beg everyone to join my song (3x)

---------------------

TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O

ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O

---------------------

Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!


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