Whether you like or you no like
After you hear this true talk
If you like e good
(Chorus) : Ge-ge* !
If you no like you hang
(Chorus) : Ge-ge !
If you hang you go die
(Chorus) : Ge-ge !
You go die for nothing
(Chorus) : Ge-ge !
Them go carry your body go police station
You die wrongfully
(Chorus) : Ge-ge ! Ge-ge ! Ge-ge !
Man dey suffer him fit talk na condition
Man dey suffer him no fit talk na condition too
Suffer dey Africa, Pa Pa Ra Pa* !
As suffer dey, Pa Pa Ra Pa !
Condition dey, Pa Pa Ra Pa !
Me I no say you be African Man
And we dey suffer, Pa Pa Ra Pa !
Which condition you dey I doÕnt know
The condition me I dey me I know
My condition don* reach gbi*
My condition don reach make I act
If your condition dey make you shake
And you no talk the way you feel
Make you open your mind very well
To dey hear the true talk
Wey I dey talk
Make you listen, make you dey Ôgree with me
Every day and night
You dey hear me talk
One day you self go Ôgree with me
To dey act the way you feel
Remember if you no act your own,
One day of course we must die
Nigeria get money,
Foreign money for oversea
Announcement start to happen
Newspaper carry them paper
Radio dey shout for studio
Obasanjo turn vocalist
YarÕAdua road manager
Heavy government statement
Seven billion naira* missing
Missing from oversea
Foreign currency scandal
Them start to arrest everybody o
E no finish ! E no finish ! E no finish !
Doctors, lawyers, hustlers,
Engineer, photographer,
All of them Kirikiri
Ten to fifteen years in jail
After one year for jail
Civilians come take over
Them release all of them
Them say them be innocent o
E no finish ! E no finish ! E no finish !
Two point eight billion naira
Oil money is missing
Them set up inquiry
Them say money no lost o
Them dabaru* everybody
Supervisor Obasanjo
Them say make him no talk o
Money no lost them shout again
Inquiry come close o
E no finish ! E no finish ! E no finish !
Election story Ônko*
Obasanjo plan am very well
Him take old politicians
Who rule Nigeria before
The same politicians
Who spoil Nigeria before
Obasanjo carry all of them
All of them dey there now
E no finish ! E no finish ! E no finish !
We young Africans we get ears for
head
We get two eyes too
Chorus) : Yeah !
Them dey see the thing wey dey happen
Them dey hear am too
(Chorus) : Yeah !
Few people dey fat with big money
And the rest dey hungry
(Chorus) : Yeah !
Me Fela I challenge Obasanjo !
Na wayo* him dey do all the time,
(Chorus) : Yeah !
Make him carry me go any court
I go open book for am
(Chorus) : Yeah !
Na wayo government we dey o
E bami pe* o
Na padi-padi government we dey o
EÕgba mi pe o
Padi-Padi* - put am together
(Chorus) : Army Arrangement
Wayo-wayo add am together
(Chorus) : Army Arrangement
One answer you get
(Chorus) : Army Arrangement
Written & sung by : FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI
Album : Army arrangement
Notes :
Ge-ge (Yoruba) : OK (English)
Don (pidgin): Do (English)
Paparapa (Yoruba): Steadily (English)
Gbi (Yoruba): Breaking-point (English)
Dabaru (Yoruba): Confuse (English)
Naira: Nigerian decimal currency
NÕko (Yoruba): Again (English)
Wayo (Hausa): Tricks (English)
Padi-padi (Pidgin): Buddy-buddy (English)
E bami pe o (Yoruba): Please help me call it, oh ! (English)

Was FELA correct?

He knew exactly what our problems are before he parted ds world n even right thr in d grave.
I am advising our leaders to go to Fela's graveyard n seek for help(solutions) to our problems.
Baba 70 for life