Friday, April 11, 2008

Where I'm From ... by Maurice Gordon




Who am I, what am I?

And where I ‘m from

I come from the moterlamd

where they carried us beyond

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To Jam us, to make us ,

do their plan

They didn’t care about I

As I was only a solution

I’m from the land, the land Jah mek

Where I f-e-e-l the r-i-d-d-i-m

T-e-a-c-h the r-i-d-d-i-m

And r-i-d-e the r-i-d-d-i-m

In my land, we family large

One mother but two or more fathers

Many brothers and sisters

So I leave my land, with a plan

Come to your land

With my instrument

and riddim in hand

To help you under stand

How to r-i-d-e the r-i-d-d-i-m

Why we cry the r-i-d-d-i-m

And how to drive the r-i-d-d-i-m

I’m from the land, the land Jah mek

Where I f-e-e-l the r-i-d-d-i-m

T-e-a-c-h the r-i-d-d-i-m

And r-i-d-e the r-i-d-d-i-m

“Where I’m From,

The land of wood and water

Where the sunshine’s daily on the mountain top

Marley is jamming on one drop

Wailing like a like a cutting razor

And it don’t stop

As Marcus started with one aim, one destiny and one god

Fom mento to ska, rocksteady to reggae, and dub to dancehall

all in one, lOVE…… Irie

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