Culture

Cape Coast to JA

Culture


In Jamaica we call it dungee 
But the British man him call it dungeon 
That them sanction. 
If you saw what took place in Cape Coast dungeon (West 
Africa) 
If you saw what took place down in the dungeon 
Man blood clot up thick. Down in this dungeon 
Blackman blood turn up thick. Down in this dungeon 
I can see the sign of torture down in this dungeon (I 
smell blood) 
You can smell the smell of stale blood down in th 
edungeon 
Nowhere to turn, yet so much in there. 
Nowhere to sit down. I must be standing (No chair in 
here) 
Straight after that, the ship was anchor. 
They call to a shock away call "man too fit" 
And nowadays they dress it up a and they no call it 
benefit. 
And nowadays Babylon dress it up a and they no call it 
benefit. 
(And me no want no benefit) 
Give me equal rights and justice 
Me no want no benefit 
For it's the old strategy they use, down in the 
dungeon 
The same dirty old strategy they use down in the 
dungeon 
And as for the woman part of it 
If short like a one foot rule 
Nobody can stand up. All baby born under dat. (Ya a 
hear me man) 
Man, know yourself now 
They refuse to ask me my name upson the slave shp 
Their minds told them to call me nigger and that was 
the end of it (A who name so?) 
There is no dignity. You don't know my name (You can't 
respect I) 
It take more intelligency to find out my real name. 
But if you see what went down, down in the dungeon 
Even in the sea 
If you see what went on, on the slave ship 
Even on the journey 
Man get dead and beaten and them throw him overboard 
Woman skin never get to deliver their nine month 
through 
Children born under the agony of knife 
Father see children and cannot even own their wives 
Equal rights and justice stand for all right in the 
dungeon 
And yet them rub it off and show me another something 
Yet them a polish it from my eyes, show me another 
something 
So Mr. Chin, how him want him titty 
Indian men want him Hindustani 
But them beat our language from you and me 
What a slavery! What happen to he, she, you and me 
They beat us in slavery 
And want us to be quiet under captivity (It can't 
gwaan so- You mad?) 
Finish it