Garvey
Marcus Garvey's Prophetic Message in Song
Lyrics
Marcus Garvey's words come to pass
Marcus Garvey's predictions are coming true.
Marcus Garvey's words come to pass
-Can't get no food to eat
Expressing hardship: inability to get food and money.
Can't get no money to spend, woo
-Can't get no food to eat
-Can't get no money to spend, woo
-Come, little one and let me do what I can do for you
Offering assistance to a specific person in need.
And you and you alone come, little one, woo
-Let me do what I can do for you and you alone, woo
-He who knows the right thing and do it not
Warning about the consequences for those who know what's right but don't act accordingly.
Shall be spanked with many stripes
-Weeping and wailing and moaning
Describing the outcome of not doing the right thing: weeping, wailing, and moaning.
You've got yourself to blame, I tell you
-Do right do right do right do right do right
Emphasizing the importance of doing the right thing.
Tell you to do right, woo
Encouraging and pleading for righteous behavior.
Beg you to do right, woo
-Where is Bagawire
Asking about the whereabouts of Bagawire, the betrayer of Marcus Garvey, and denouncing him as the son of Satan and the first betrayer.
He's nowhere to be found, he can't be found
-First betrayer who gave away Marcus Garvey
-Son of Satan, First prophesy
-Catch them, Garvey old
Calling for action to catch and hold those who betrayed Marcus Garvey.
Catch them Garvey, catch them, woo
-Hold them Marcus, hold them, woo
-Marcus Garvey, Marcus, woo
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