Black Star Line Lyrics - Singles - Brand Nubian

Follow me, upon a Black Star Line 

Off for the rest and for Brand Nubian 

Now go to Africa again, watch dis! 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

It's the Black Star Line that's leavin' at nine 

Here's a paid ticket so you can free your mind 

Playgrounds is filled with visions of steel 

Grab the black babies, it's time to build 

See we got a mental ship somethin' like Noah's Ark 

Spark your brain cell, now let's set sail 

With no avail, we flowin' on a positive trip 

All Nubians is welcome, male and female 

I, wouldn't resort, to askin' for a passport 

Love vibes rule so your black face is cool 

Cool, but not frozen, a trip for the chosen few 

Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner 

Goin' to Africa, one more time 

Goin' to Africa, one more time 

Goin' to Africa, one more time 

Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner 

Goin' to Africa, one more time, true 

Let me tell you bout Marcus Garvey 

Born in Jamaica, God left him in country 

He go to America to make black people free 

He walk around low and just try make money 

Him buy up some ship and just start for we 

America or Africa and live irie 

We have some man where wan gonna be 

Young nasty and just licky licky 

Some love Marcus Garvey, the place of peace 

Or peace around it, and dem sparkle up him say 

I just light up, make the first hungry 

Writer no block it but just run follow me 

Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner 

Goin' to Africa, one more time 

Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner 

Brand Nubian, tell dem one more time 

As we look to the stars, they take ours 

Yeah, we got fly cars but you can live in four wheels? 

We need new approaches, old style is null and void 

Makes me paranoid, to think 

That we own the whole ocean yet we can't even drink 

You couldn't swim the nine thousand so we got you a means 

Of transportation, for the Nubian nation 

Marcus Garvey had the idea back in the days 

Doin' for self, keepin' the wealth 

I gotta add on and create 

Though the devil thinks 

It's not the latest fashion 

Navigatin' lost, somethin' like a ship's captain 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line 

Everybody come aboard, and free your mind 

When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms 

Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black 

Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black 

Call me proud to be black, cause I'm not tryin' to fuck 

When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot 

When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot 

Be gone, I want no dem I want no dem-dem dem-dem dem-dem 

Never know they wickedness they haffa come to an end 

Don't take a no fey word for de white boy dem 

Awayaa, tell me, all you get in de end 

Awayaa, tell me, all you get isa dem 

Awayaa, tell me, all you get more den dey spend 

C'mon, tell de world black man entertainer 

Rock dem one and rock entertained 

Tell the Red Foxx style dem a get 

When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms 

Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black 

Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black 

Brand Nubian wanna give NUFF 

Respect to the one Marcus Garvey 

NUFF respect to Red Foxx 

Sting International in the house 

Dave Kennedy on the boards 

KnowhatI'msayin'? The one Rafael 

Nuff respect to the God Sincere 

Yeah, yaknowhatI'msayin'? 

Mark the Spark is in the house 

And umm, this how we work out 

For the ninety-two season