Listen to African Roots by Johnny Clarke

African Roots

Johnny Clarke

Reggae

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Johnny Clarke - African Roots + dub version, 1976

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Johnny Clarke

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Johnny Clarke

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Bunny Lee

Producer

Pat Kelly

Engineer

Ernest Hoo Kim

Engineer

OSBOURNE RUDDOCK

OSBOURNE RUDDOCK

Engineer

Lyrics

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

African roots

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots", Fi tru

I was born and raise in the ghetto

With the blood of African roots

So you can always call me

Call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

We've been taken away from Africa

More than five hundred years ago

But one thing they didn't take

Is the roots out of my mind

So call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots", Root

Say it doesn't matter to me

If they call me "African roots"

Here I am as an African

Born and raise in the ghetto

I was born and raise in the ghetto

With the blood of African roots

So you can always call me

Call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

African roots

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots", Root

Say it doesn't matter to me

If they call me "African roots"

Seh here I am as an African

Born and raise in the ghetto

Say I was born and raise in the ghetto

With the blood of African roots

So you can always call me

Call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

Please call me "African roots"

Just call me "African roots"

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, tuh-tuh-toe)

(Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh)

Written by: Johnny Clarke

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