Sunday, October 9, 2011

One Of My Favorite Songs

I and I old I know
I and I old I say
I and I reconsider
I and I see upfully that
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
Yes Jah

He's saying that, he is the first one
who discover Jamaica
I and I say that,
What about the Arawak Indians and the few Black man
Who were around here, before him
The Indians couldn't hang on no longer
Here comes first Black man and woman and children,
In a Jam Down Land ya
A whole heap of mix up and mix up
A whole heap a ben up, ben up,
We have fi straighten out,
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
Yes Jah

[by Winston Rodney. Best known as Burning Spear]

3 comments:

  1. That's why Dia de la Raza is my preference over Columbus DAy. Though even that holiday is bittersweet.

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  2. I'll read more about Dia de la Raza. I know it is the celebration of Columbus' arrival to South America.

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  3. Probably, Columbus was the first white man to make the discovery that's why the presence of Indians already on the land isn't taken into account.
    That's the only explanation I can think of that would make some sense. Then that would mean, white man's discovery is of more importance than anything else. Doesn't seem fair thought but who says life is?

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