Third World People - Jimmy Cliff

Third world people

Remember where ya' comin' from

Third world people

Know where you belong

Mother country, mother country

We 'ave been told

That it’s England, France, Germany, Portugal

Since the days of old

But I know that life could not start in a refrigerator

Has to be in an incubator

So mark I words, mark these words

Well, I’n’I could never be the third

Third world people

Remember where ya' comin' from

Third world people

Know where you belong

Father country, my father country

I’ve been told, time and time again

Says America, France, Germany, Portugal

Netherlands, Italy or Spain

But I know

That it’s hungry Europe, barren Asia

And bountiful Africa

So you see now, you know who is first

Well, I’n’I could never be the worst

Third world people

Remember where ya' comin' from

Third world people

Know where you belong

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

They want to keep you down in perpetual

Insecurity, ignorance and poverty

By keeping the pressure on the innocent ones

Continually, this can’t go on

Third world people

I’n’I remember where ya' comin' from

Bona fide, dis third world people

Know where you belong

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Civilization did not go up the Nile

It went down the Nile

And it reached Europe last

So if you not 'ave the roots

You just can’t know the

Just can’t know the truth, now

Africa, my country, my land

Africa, where the plants come from, I love to be

Africa, our wonderful Africa

Where the gold comes from

The diamonds come from

The platinum, the lignum, the oil

The rubber, ya' name it

We got it, we got it, we got it, we got it

Ooh, ooh, ooh