Who Is This America Dem Speak Of Today?

Lyrics

[Pre-Intro] [?] [Intro] America oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, [?] Brrung, brrang, brring, brang, brang, brang Hello, hello Ah, hello uncle Who is this? Who...? Who is this, uncle? It's me now, uncle [?]. Who is Ameri- How is America, oh, uncle? Yeah, ah How is the states, now, now now now, now now now? [Verse 1] The state of confusion, [?] State of commotion, [?] State of individualism, [?] "America do this" "America do that" "America go here" "America go there" That's what dem say-o In the streets of New York Oh, in the cafés of Europe And on the streets of Lagos In the streets of New York and Oh, in the cafés of Europe, whoa, and On the roads of Lagos, whoa Everybody they talk, whoa Me I question sote-o (Always) I dey confuse-o [Chorus] Who is this America dem speak of today? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Is it you? Or me? Or the next brother wey I know? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Dem speak of him like my, like my next-door neighbor Who is America? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) But he can't be every brother And every brother can't be him, oh (Who is this America dem speak of today?) [Verse 2] Is it Ronald McDonald? In him Mickey House? Or just he him who eat him burger? Him who buy him Nike? Him who watch him TV? Oh I grow confuse-o I must ask again Who is this America dem speak of today? Tell me (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Is it indigenous America? One who first come live here? Is him original America? Him live in peace and harmony-o Before immigration started Before immigration started Here come the Spanish (Immigrant) Here come the Dutchman (Immigrant) Here come the English (Immigrant) Here come the Frenchman (Immigrant) Immigrant, Immigrant-o (Immigrant) Here come the Spanish (Immigrant) Here come the Dutchman (Immigrant) Here come the English (Immigrant) Here come the Frenchman (Immigrant) Here come the pilgrim, filthy little alien (Immigrant) With no paper, with no green card [?] (Immigrant), oh Come with smallpox Come with rifles Come with land rights Dem come with prisons too They be first to say: "This is America I go America now" [Chorus] But I must ask again – I grow confuse-o Who is this America dem speak of today? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Head scatter, who is this America they speak of today-o? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) [Verse 3] Listen, listen Is it the black man? Stolen from Africa-o Whipped into slavery Fight and fight for freedom Just to ride in the back of bus Him bring us culture America Him bring us music too America Him fight and him die Now him can sit where him like But him still never drive this bus, whoa Is him America dem speak of today? Listen Is it the slavemaster? Plantation owner? Ku Klux, Ku Klux Klansman? Man with the whip? Factory owner? Him go say loud and proud-o Him go say white is America Him go say-o him na America-o I must ask again 'cause I grow more and more and more and more confuse-o Who is this America dem speak of today-o? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Is it company worker? (Who go know, who go know) Or CEO? (Who go know, who go know) Is it soldier captain? (Who go know, who go know) Or soldier family? (Who go know, who go know) Is it labor organizer? (Who go know, who go know) Or police strike-breaker? (Who go know, who go know) Is it drunkard on the street? Tell me (Who go know, who go know) Or is it drunkard in the White House-o? (Who go know) Oil tycoon-o? (Who go know) Green Party voter? (Who go know) Under, undercover police? (Who go know) Public school teacher? (Who go know) CIA (Who go know) IRS (Who go know) DEA (Who go know) NBC (Who go know...) CNN, FCC, NRA, FBI, INS, split to three, ATT, ATF, EBA, FCC, NFL, NBC, NBA, WB, PBR, HMO, HUD, AAA, TSA, ERA, PTA [Chorus] (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Who is this America dem speak of today-o? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Is it you? Or me? Or the next brother wey I know? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Dem speak of him like my, like my nextdoor neighbor-o (Who is this America dem speak of today?) Dem steal dem money-o One flag is not big enough for this many people (Who is this America dem speak of today?) This is no one community, no one family-o (Who is this America dem speak of today?) No people united. What is united in a state of confusion? (Who is this America dem speak of today?) No pluribus unum, no pluribus unum (Who is this America dem speak of today?) [Outro] (Who is this America dem speak of today?) (Who is this America dem speak of today?) (Who is this America dem speak of today?) (Who is this America dem speak of today?) (Who is this America dem speak of today?)