We’re a people black as is your night
Born to spread Amma’s eternal light
Which since time began
Has been to bring truth to every man

Our ancestors have since long ago
Passed their wisdom down so we to know
For here lies the key
That will help unfold the mistery

A seed’s a star
A seed’s a star’s a seed
A star’s a seed
A star’s a seed’s a star

In myself I do contain
The elements of sun and rain
First a seed with roots that swell
I gradually burst through my shell
Pushing down into the ground
The root of me is homeward bound
A trunk, a leaf and there I am
A miracle of least by far

Tree – you are the longest living one we know
the largest of all plants and still you grow

Tree – within your branches there’s such history
so much of what we’re searching for to know

Every fifty years we celebrate
Po Tolo, our star, as it rotates
Though infinitely small
It is still the heaviest of them all

(Background)

A seed’s a star
A seed’s a star’s a seed
A star’s a seed
A star’s a seed’s a star
A seed’s a star
A seed’s a star’s a seed
A star’s a seed
A star’s a seed’s a star

(Background-simultaneous)

Ye Lolo De Ye
Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye
Kesse ye lolo De Ye
Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye
Kesse ye lolo De Ye
Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye
Kesse ye lolo De Ye
Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye

And some believe antennas are their leaves
That spans beyond our galaxy
They’ve been, they are and probably will be
Who are the mediocrity

Like a long lonely stream
I keep runnin’ towardas a dream
Movin’ on, movin’ on
Like a branch on a tree
I keep reachin’ to be free
Movin’ on, movin’ on.

‘Cause there’s a place in the sun
Where there’s hope for ev’ryone
Where my poor restless heart’s gotta run.
There’s a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun.

Like an old dusty road
I get weary from the load.
Movin’ on, movin’ on
Like this tired troubled earth
I’ve been rollin’ since my birth
Movin’ on, movin’ on

‘Cause there’s a place in the sun
Where there’s hope for ev’ryone
Where my poor restless heart’s gotta run.
There’s a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun.

What happened to the world we knew
When we would dream and scheme
And while the time away
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Where did it go that yester glow
When we could feel
The wheel of life turn our way
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
I had a dream so did you life
Was warm and love was true
Two kids who followed all the rules
Yester folls and now
Now it seems those yester dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we used to play
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
When I recall what we had
I feel lost I feel sad with nothing but
The memory of yester love and now
Now it seems those yester dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we had to play
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Sing with me
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
One more time…..

Would you like to go with me
Down my dead end street
Would you like to come with me
To Village Ghetto Land

See the people lock their doors
While robbers laugh and steal
Beggars watch and eat their meals-from garbage cans

Broken glass is everywhere
It’s a bloody scene
Killing plagues the citizens
Unless they own police

Children play with rusted cars
Sores cover their hands
Politicians laugh and drink-drunk to all demands

Families buying dog food now
Starvation roams the streets
Babies die before they’re born
Infected by the grief

Now some folks say that we should be
Glad for what we have
Tell me would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land
Village Ghetto Land

Hello flower
Boy, do you look juicy
And you know just what I?m coming to get, right

Don?t eat me
Please don?t eat me
I?m trapped in your love
Save me, don?t hurt me

Don’t wanna believe what they’re telling me
Somebody’s been pickin in my cherry tree
Don’t wanna mistrust nobody by mistake
But I hear tell someone’s been diggin round in my cake

And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah)
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah) nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah)

Don’t wanna believe what somebody said
But somebody said somebody’s shoes was under my bed
Don’t wanna cause nobody no bodily harm
But somebody’s been rubbin’ on my good luck charm

And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah)
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah) nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah)
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,

No, I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, nah-ah (nah-ah)
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, no
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, oh, oh,
no, no, no, no, no (nah-ah)
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, nah-ah (nah-ah) oh, oh, oh
(I ain’t gonna stand for it baby,
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby,
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby)
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
stand for it baby, nah-ah (nah-ah) baby, ah, ah