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Ah- Let's get now into another, underground spiritual game

Just go to help me the answer, go to say, "Aiya-kata"- Oh ya


O'feshe-Lu

[CHORUS] AIYA-KATA *(after each line)

O'feshe- g'Boh

*(2x)


O'feshe-Woh

[CHORUS] AIYA-KATA *(after each line)

O'feshe-g'Beh

Aiya kata

Aiya Koto

Aiya Kiti

Aiya Kutu


O'feshe-Lu

[CHORUS] AIYA-KATA *(after each line)

O'feshe- g'Boh

*(2x)


Oh-----.......


Basket mouth wan start to leak again, oh-

[CHORUS] BASKET MOUTH WAN OPEN MOUTH AGAIN, OH

Abi** you don forget I say I sing, ee-oh **(is it not)

[CHORUS] BASKET MOUTH WAN OPEN MOUTH AGAIN, OH

Oh, I sing-ee say, I go my mouth like basket, ee-oh, malan biag bere

(stanza 2x)


Basket mouth wan start to leak again, oh-

[CHORUS] BASKET MOUTH WAN OPEN MOUTH AGAIN, OH


Fela, wetin you go sing about?

[CHORUS] DEM GO WORRY ME... *(after each line)

(3x)


Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry, worry, worry

[CHORUS] DEM GO WORRY ME *(After each line)

Dey wan to make us sing about prison

Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry all over da town

Dem wan to know about prison life

Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry all over da town

*(repeat stanza)


Fela, wetin you go sing about?

[CHORUS] DEM GO WORRY ME

Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry, worry, worry


The time weh I dey, for prison, I call am "inside world"

The time weh I dey outside prison, I call am "outside world"

Na craze world, na be outside world


[CHORUS] CRAZE** WORLD *(after each line) / **(crazy)

Na be outside- da police-i dey

Na be outside- da soldier-ha dey

Na be outside- da court dem dey

Na be outside- da magistrate dey

Na be outside- da judge dem dey

Na craze world be dat

Na be outside- Buhari* dey *(Nigerian Head of State via coup d'etat)

Na craze man be dat

Animal in craze-man skin-i

Na craze world be dat

Na be outside- Idiagbon* dey *(Chief of General Staff- 2nd in command)

Na craze man be dat

Animal in craze-man skin-i

Na craze world be dat

Na be outside- dem find me guilty

Na be outside- dem jail me five years

------------------I no do nothing

Na be outside-dem judge dey beg ee-o

Na craze world be dat, Na craze world be dat

Na be outside- dem kill dem students

Soweto, Zaria, and Ife** (600+ students killed protesting Afrikaans schooling)

Na craze world be dat, ee-oh

Na craze world be dat,

Na be outside- all dis dey happen

Na craze world be dat, ee-oh

Na craze world be dat, ee-oh

Na craze world be dat, ee-oh

Na craze world be dat, ee-oh

Na craze world be dat, ee-oh.....



Make you hear this one [sax responses]

War against indiscipline, ee-oh


Na Nigerian government, ee-oh

Dem dey talk ee-oh

"My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people lack discipline"


Na Nigerian government, ee-oh

Dem dey talk be dat

"My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people lack discipline"


I never hear dat before- oh

Make Government talk, ee-oh

"My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people lack discipline"


Na Nigerian government, ee-oh

Dem dey talk be dat

Which kind talk be dat- ee-oh?

Na craze talk be dat ee-oh

Na animal talk be dat ee-oh

Na animal talk be dat ee-oh


[CHORUS] MANY LEADERS AS YOU SEE DEM

[CHORUS] NA DIFFERENT DISGUISE DEM DEY-OH

[CHORUS] ANIMAL IN HUMAN SKIN

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U TIE-OH

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I WEAR AGBADA* *(robe)

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U SUIT-U

*(2x- 2nd time with lead voc)


These disguising leaders ee-oh, na wah for dem [sax responses after each]

Dem hold meeting everywhere, dem reach America (2x stanza)


Dem call the place, the "United Nations" [sax responses after each]

Hear-oh another animal talk

Wetin united inside "United Nations"?

Who & who unite, for "United Nations"?

No be there Thatcher & Argentina dey

No be there Reagan & Lib-i-ya dey

Is-i-rael versus Lebanon

Iran-i-oh versus Iraq-i

East West Block versus West Block East

No be there dem dey oh- United Nations

Dis "united" United Nations

One veto vote is equal to 92 [...OR MORE, OR MORE]

What kind sense be dat, na animal sense (2x)


[CHORUS] MANY LEADERS AS YOU SEE DEM

[CHORUS] NA DIFFERENT DISGUISE DEM DEY-OH

[CHORUS] ANIMAL IN HUMAN SKIN

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U TIE-OH

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I WEAR AGBADA

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U SUIT-U

*(2x- 2nd time with lead voc)


Dem go hold meeting, oh, Dem go start yab* human beings *(tease/bother)

Animal talk don start again

Dash* dem, human rights *(give/grant)

*(repeat stanza)


How animal go know-say dem no born me as slave?

How animal go know say slave trade don pass?

And, dey wan dash us human rights

Animal must talk to human beings

Give dem human rights


I beg-ee, oh , make you hear me well-u well

I beg-ee, oh, make you hear me very well


Human rights na my property

So therefore, you can't dash me my property

Human rights na my property

Dey want dash us human rights


Some people say, "Why I dey talk like dis,"

No be talk like dis, dem take to carry me go prision ee-oh"

No be me dey talk, na Prime Minister Botha* dey talk, ee-oh (2x) *(PM of S.Africa)


Him say, "this uprising will bring out the beast in us"

[CHORUS] THIS UPRISING WILL BRING OUT THE BEAST IN US

(repeat stanza 3x)


Eh Ji Keke- my argument


Botha na friend to Thatcher & Reagan

Botha na friend to some other leaders too

And together dem wan dash us human rights

Animals wan dash us human rights

Animal can't dash me human rights

Animal can't dash us human rights


[CHORUS] MANY LEADERS AS YOU SEE DEM

[CHORUS] NA DIFFERENT DISGUISE DEM DEY-OH

[CHORUS] ANIMAL IN HUMAN SKIN

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U TIE-OH

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I WEAR AGBADA

[CHORUS] ANIMAL-I PUT-U SUIT-U

*(2x- 2nd time with lead voc)


Beasts of no nation- Egbe Ke Gbe na bad society


[CHORUS] BEASTS OF NO NATION, EGBE KE GBE

[CHORUS] BEASTS OF NO NATION, OTURU GBE KE

(repeat stanza many x, lead vamp)


Easy... easy


[solos] 

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