Villager's Independence

James Berry

Every meal-time going be a meal-time.

Every child body going have clothes.

Every child going go school everyday.

Instead of a hurricane mash-up

It going be a hurricane of build-up.

And every house stan up to breeze-blow.

 

We going have a tractor to farm we land.

Woman head burden of load going to go

all along on four-wheel.

Rain-season rain not going sink.  A new

reservoir going keep rainfall fo dry-time.

We going build up a real market.

 

Foot-track them going broaden out

into crossroad after crossroad them.

Big Pasture will turn new house settlement.

Aeroplane going come land in Bottom Wood

clearance.  Ship across the world going stop

right here outside we Long Bay Beach.

 

Water like power going come live in

we house -- a suitable quiet partner

always there with lectric light.

And when Queen-of-Englan come,

we going house her and home her

right here in we district.

 

Drum soun come and come through Island now

drummin hell spirit out everybody

and everything.  Not to turn back.

It here..  Not ever to go away.

Me hearing it good-good.  All the new

new soun of mento full up me head.

 

Before God and before man

a change a-come.

It a-come.

Overdue, overdue, in we life!

Before God and before man

Independence a-come!


Main Location:

Jamaica