[00:08.94]Morning to you man
[00:09.98]
[00:12.43]Morning to you love
[00:13.44]
[00:24.52]Hey I say I say
[00:28.15]
[00:28.69]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
[00:32.00]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[00:35.62]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
[00:39.00]Who are we today yeah now
[00:41.83]
[00:42.38]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
[00:46.09]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[00:49.45]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
[00:52.41]
[00:53.04]Who are we today yeah now
[00:55.49]
[00:56.01]The black oasis ancient africa the sacred
[00:59.04]
[01:00.08]The sleeping giant science art is your creation
[01:02.55]
[01:03.15]I dreamed that we could visit old kemet
[01:05.49]
[01:06.10]Your history is too complex and rigid for some western critics
[01:10.05]They want the whole subject diminished
[01:11.62]
[01:12.28]But africa's the origin of all the world's religions
[01:14.86]
[01:15.63]We praise bridges that carried us over
[01:17.68]
[01:18.19]The battle fronts of sudanic soldiers the task put before us
[01:22.55]Do you hear me now
[01:23.94]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
[01:26.77]
[01:27.33]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[01:30.85]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
[01:33.91]
[01:34.49]Who are we today yeah now
[01:36.85]
[01:37.56]Africa must wake up
[01:38.78]
[01:39.33]The sleeping sons of Jacob
[01:41.13]For what tomorrow may bring
[01:42.85]May a better day come
[01:44.56]Yesterday we were Kings
[01:46.24]Can you tell me young ones
[01:47.70]
[01:48.26]Who are we today
[01:49.20]
[01:50.03]Who are we today the slums diseases aids
[01:52.49]
[01:53.10]We need that all to fade we cannot be afraid
[01:56.60]So who are we today
[01:58.21]We are the morning after the makeshift youth
[02:01.05]The slave-ship captured our diaspora is the final chapter
[02:05.30]The ancestral lineage built pyramids
[02:07.87]America's first immigrants the kings and daughters from our waters
[02:12.13]The first architect the first philosophers
[02:14.24]
[02:14.80]Astronomers the first prophets and the doctors were us us
[02:19.02]Now can we all pray each in his own way
[02:22.41]Teaching and learning we can work it out
[02:25.50]
[02:26.03]We'll have a warm bed we'll have some warm bread
[02:29.19]Shelter from the storm dread and we can work it out
[02:33.02]Mother nature feeds all in farming and drought
[02:36.47]And though selfish in ways not to share is out
[02:39.83]What's a tree without root lion without tooth
[02:43.14]
[02:43.90]A lie without truth you hear me out
[02:46.22]
[02:46.78]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
[02:50.17]For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
[02:53.61]Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
[02:57.41]Who are we today yeah now
[02:59.68]
[03:00.26]Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
[03:04.01]What tomorrow may bring may some more love come
[03:07.51]Yesterday we were kings I tell ya young bloods
[03:11.21]The world is yours today
[03:12.32]
[03:13.94]Dadyahow daali waayey nabada diideen
[03:16.41]
[03:17.18]Oo ninkii doortay dinta waadinka dillee
[03:19.87]
[03:20.63]Oo dal markii ladhiso waadinka dunshee
[03:23.46]
[03:24.02]Oo daacad ninkii damcay waadinka dooxee
[03:26.93]
[03:27.63]Dadyahow daali waayey nabada diideen
[03:30.32]
[03:30.90]Oo ninkii doortay dinta waadinka dillee
[03:33.59]
[03:34.34]Oo dal markii ladhiso waadinka dunshee
[03:37.10]
[03:37.89]Oo daacad ninkii damcay waadinka dooxee
[03:40.65]
[04:40.38]We want to thank y'all everybody out there
[04:43.54]
[04:45.67]This is nas damian marley 'distant relatives'
[04:49.95]
[04:51.57]We're all distant relatives no matter where you from where you live
[04:54.41]
[04:55.07]How near or far africa China Japan afghanistan israel
[05:00.51]
[05:01.63]We're all fam we're all distant relatives
[05:04.04]
[05:06.27]So that's why we came together one of the reasons
[05:08.96]
[05:09.73]Why myself and damian came together
[05:11.92]
[05:13.30]'Cause we all come from one place and that's africa
[05:15.51]
[05:17.14]That's right you too and you
[05:19.54]
[05:20.67]The whole world
[05:21.44]
[05:22.51]We're all family we're just spread out all over the place
[05:25.95]
[05:27.10]So to all my distant relatives let's take it back home
[05:30.65]
[05:32.37]Africa must wake up
[05:33.49]
[05:34.00]The sleeping sons of Jacob
[05:35.82]For what tomorrow may bring
[05:37.69]May a better day come
[05:39.38]Yesterday we were Kings
[05:41.04]Can you tell me young ones
[05:42.94]Who are we today yeah now
[05:45.64]
[05:46.16]Africa must wake up
[05:47.84]The sleeping sons of Jacob
[05:49.66]For what tomorrow may bring
[05:51.48]May a better day come
[05:53.17]Yesterday we were Kings
[05:54.91]Can you tell me young ones
[05:56.93]Who are we today
[05:57.84]
[05:58.65]Who are we today
[05:59.46]
[06:01.29]Morning to you
[06:01.97]
[06:03.83]Morning to you man
[06:04.78]
[06:07.37]Morning to you love
[06:08.43]

Morning to you man
Morning to you love
Hey I say I say
Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
Who are we today yeah now
Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
Who are we today yeah now
The black oasis ancient africa the sacred
The sleeping giant science art is your creation
I dreamed that we could visit old kemet
Your history is too complex and rigid for some western critics
They want the whole subject diminished
But africa's the origin of all the world's religions
We praise bridges that carried us over
The battle fronts of sudanic soldiers the task put before us
Do you hear me now
Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of jacob
For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
Who are we today yeah now
Africa must wake up
The sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring
May a better day come
Yesterday we were Kings
Can you tell me young ones
Who are we today
Who are we today the slums diseases aids
We need that all to fade we cannot be afraid
So who are we today
We are the morning after the makeshift youth
The slave-ship captured our diaspora is the final chapter
The ancestral lineage built pyramids
America's first immigrants the kings and daughters from our waters
The first architect the first philosophers
Astronomers the first prophets and the doctors were us us
Now can we all pray each in his own way
Teaching and learning we can work it out
We'll have a warm bed we'll have some warm bread
Shelter from the storm dread and we can work it out
Mother nature feeds all in farming and drought
And though selfish in ways not to share is out
What's a tree without root lion without tooth
A lie without truth you hear me out
Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings can you tell me young ones
Who are we today yeah now
Africa must wake up the sleeping sons of Jacob
What tomorrow may bring may some more love come
Yesterday we were kings I tell ya young bloods
The world is yours today
Dadyahow daali waayey nabada diideen
Oo ninkii doortay dinta waadinka dillee
Oo dal markii ladhiso waadinka dunshee
Oo daacad ninkii damcay waadinka dooxee
Dadyahow daali waayey nabada diideen
Oo ninkii doortay dinta waadinka dillee
Oo dal markii ladhiso waadinka dunshee
Oo daacad ninkii damcay waadinka dooxee
We want to thank y'all everybody out there
This is nas damian marley 'distant relatives'
We're all distant relatives no matter where you from where you live
How near or far africa China Japan afghanistan israel
We're all fam we're all distant relatives
So that's why we came together one of the reasons
Why myself and damian came together
'Cause we all come from one place and that's africa
That's right you too and you
The whole world
We're all family we're just spread out all over the place
So to all my distant relatives let's take it back home
Africa must wake up
The sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring
May a better day come
Yesterday we were Kings
Can you tell me young ones
Who are we today yeah now
Africa must wake up
The sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring
May a better day come
Yesterday we were Kings
Can you tell me young ones
Who are we today
Who are we today
Morning to you
Morning to you man
Morning to you love