Black Is Beautiful

Here's a story told to the children of Africa

We love the children of Africa

Teaching the children

Ooh na-na-na-na

La-da-da-da

Oi, black eye, black hair, black skin

Black queen stand majestic with the black king

Today I'll sing you a black song

You need to hear about beautiful black things, 'cause

Most time we hear about black

We hear about black magic and black witches

Black list, black book, black market

Black Friday, you spend off your black riches

I've never seen a doctor in black

Nor seen a black pill fi cure no black people

But I've seen bush doctors like Tosh and Marley

Resurrect like a real black Beatle

Malcolm, Marcus, Martin

When you see Walter Rodney, ask him

How you nuh hear about Howell often?

So when the little offspring asking, tell dem

They never told us that black is beautiful

They never told us, black is beauty

They never told us that black is beautiful

They never told us, they never told us that black is beautiful

You ah behave and a gwaan on like you never spent 500 years pon a farm

The same chain you ah wear and a gwaan is another black life in Sierra Leone

Dem find out that mama earth got gold then

Dem mine out mama earth black soul then

You work hard just fi get a black card

Same card weh you swipe, buy back your black gold then

Hol' on, I see enough faces long

But this is not a racist song

This is a song for the children who was never told about where their race is from

They never hear it in dem favorite songs

Everybody calm, ah say slavery's done

What ah go gwaan when the babies come

And start read 'bout things like

Dogons, black Kemet and Kush

Black kings, black senates and books

Weh teach 'bout pyramids and put real significance to we physical looks

So every word weh mi say black

In my world, everything black

Black white, white black right back

So don't be surprised if mi say mi king black, 'cause

They never told us that black is beautiful

They never told us, black is beauty

They never told us that black is beautiful

They never told us, they never told us that black is beautiful

Preacher is preaching, good God

The things that he preaches

I wonder who taught him to preach

Teacher is teaching

Where did he get his degree?

Now it is no mystery who taught us black history

Peace up