True Story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
I wanna tell you a true story
It'll make you feel weary
Say something about days of old
Speak words of things untold
Lord knows it won't be no fairytale
It's about my land that turned to hell
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
It was once upon a time
'In a country so divine
A L K I B U L A N
Or Mother of Mankind
Life was so easy
Jah knows how we were free
Bountiful was Mother Nature
Wise were the Elders
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
It was 500 years ago
Not so long ago
I was there that very day
Saw their ship dockin' in our bay
Yes I beheld the sky it was darkening
Blackman painful time was only beginning
For the fire they lighted that night
Shown us the evil most awful sight
I wanna tell you a true story
It'll make you feel weary
And it won't be no fairytale
It's what history books forgot to tell
Precious crop and village they have burnt
White magic Age's time of manhunt
My temple they downstroyed and also my school
My city they sacked now the white man speaks the rule
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
They killed the Wiser
They slew the Elder
Tamed the Brave, some Women they saved
Slaughtered the Young but keep the Strong
They brought an Era
Of midnight terror
The darkest hour
Of endless horror
Erased my Memory
Done chained my Liberty
Stripped off my Dignity
Sent me away to captivity
Bull whip's cracking
Baby's starving
My Brother is dying
And Sister is weeping
Mama is weeping
Mama is weeping
Mama is weeping
Mama is weeping
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
I wanna tell you a true story
It'll make you feel weary
Say something about days of old
Speak words of things untold
Lord knows it won't be no fairytale
It's about my land that turned to hell
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
It was once upon a time
'In a country so divine
A L K I B U L A N
Or Mother of Mankind
Life was so easy
Jah knows how we were free
Bountiful was Mother Nature
Wise were the Elders
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
It was 500 years ago
Not so long ago
I was there that very day
Saw their ship dockin' in our bay
Yes I beheld the sky it was darkening
Blackman painful time was only beginning
For the fire they lighted that night
Shown us the evil most awful sight
I wanna tell you a true story
It'll make you feel weary
And it won't be no fairytale
It's what history books forgot to tell
Precious crop and village they have burnt
White magic Age's time of manhunt
My temple they downstroyed and also my school
My city they sacked now the white man speaks the rule
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
They killed the Wiser
They slew the Elder
Tamed the Brave, some Women they saved
Slaughtered the Young but keep the Strong
They brought an Era
Of midnight terror
The darkest hour
Of endless horror
Erased my Memory
Done chained my Liberty
Stripped off my Dignity
Sent me away to captivity
Bull whip's cracking
Baby's starving
My Brother is dying
And Sister is weeping
Mama is weeping
Mama is weeping
Mama is weeping
Mama is weeping
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
True story, blues story
Credits
Writer(s): Ras Smaila
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