From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Lyrics: "I was a king", Eddie Murphy/Shabba Ranks

This is the best I can make out for now, enjoy babylon:

word-a right up-a | painted across the sky | black man and fair skins |
we are going for a swim | Eddie Murphy sing-a some-a chant:

I was, I was a king | you brought I, to your land in chains | you forced
I, to work by the rod | you taught I, to worship your God | you stripped
I to the bone | you raped I, took my soul | abused I, records show | you
bought and you sold and you killed I | your blood was cold, disgraced I |
why do you hate I why do you hate I why do you | I was, I was a king |
Shabba:

a little ? | white nation black nation who's the ? caribbean | ? | wise
up wise up my brother wise up | rise up rise up my nation rise up | wise
up wise up my sister wise up | get-up an' up Eddie says wise up | get-up
an' up Shabba says wise up

I was, I was the first | of all man, to walk on this earth | you're from
I, or did you forget | your father deserves some respect | you use I to
the bone | you hurt I, took my soul | you cheat I, records show | your
nation was built on my sweat why | why do you hate I why do you hate I
why do you hate I why do you | I was, I was a king | look at me now |
lift every voice and sing | 'till love in heaven, yeah | ring in harmony |
o-oh, please | Shabba:

wise up wise up my brother wise up | wise up wise up my sister wise up |
rise up rise up my nation rise up | stop fight stop fuss that only kill
us | we stop hear religion that try to fool us | we buy? any system?
that try to school us | get up ? | wise up wise up my brother wise up |
Shabba Rank him say wise up | wise up wise up my sister wise up-a |
Eddie Murphy say wise up | this is the time that we all stand up |
Malcolm X try to let us wise up | fought to see the conscious and pay
the cost | Martin Luther try to let us wise up | fought to see the
conscious and pay the cost | each one teach us not to kill us | this-a
tell-a that one not to hurt us | ? | stop your fighting stop all your
fuss | find you conscious you must an' up | rise up rise up one nation
rise up-a