Black Stalin - Caribbean Man

★ Verse 1 ★
Yuh try with a Federation
De whole thing end in confusion
Caricom and then Carifta
But somehow ah smelling disaster
Mister West Indian politician
Ah mean yuh went to big institution
An' how come yuh cyar unite seven million?
When a West Indian unity
I know is very easy
If yuh only rap to yuh people
An' tell dem like me

★ Chorus ★
Dem is one race (the Caribbean man)
From de same place (the Caribbean man)
Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)
On dе same ship (the Caribbean man)
So wе must push one common intention
For a better life in the region
For we woman
An' we children
Dat must be the ambition of the Caribbean man, the Caribbean man

★ Verse 2 ★
Yuh say dat the Federation
Was imported quite from England
An' yuh going and form a Carifta
With a true West Indian flavour
But since Carifta started runnin'
Morning, noon and night all I hearin'
Is just money speech dem Prime Ministers givin'
But I say no setta money could form a unity
First of all your people need
Their identity

★ Chorus ★
Like one race (the Caribbean man)
From de same place (the Caribbean man)
Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)
On dе same ship (the Caribbean man)
So we must push one common intention
For a better life in the region
For we woman
And we children
Dat must be the ambition of the Caribbean man

★ Verse 3 ★
Caricom is wasting time
The whole Caribbean gone blind
If we don't know from where we coming
Den we cyar plan where we going
Dat's why some want to be Communist
Some want want to be Socialist
And one setta religion to add to the foolishness
Look a man who don't know his history
Cyar form no unity
How could a man who don't know his roots
Form his own ideology?

★ Chorus ★
Like one race (the Caribbean man)
From de same place (the Caribbean man)
Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)
On dе same ship (the Caribbean man)
So we must push one common intention
For a better life in the region
For we woman
And we children
Dat must be the ambition of de Caribbean man
De caribbean man
De caribbean man

★ Verse 4 ★
De Federation done dead
An' Carifta going to bed
But the cult of the Rastafarian
Spreading through the Caribbean
It have rastas now in Grenada
It have rastas now in St. Lucia
But to run Carifta
Yes, you getting pressure
If the Rastafari movement spreading
And Carifta dying slow
Den it's something them rastas on
Dat dem politicians don't know

★ Chorus ★
Dat Dere's one race (the Caribbean man)
From de same place (the Caribbean man)
Dat make de same trip (the Caribbean man)
On dе same ship (the Caribbean man)
So they pushing one common intention
Is for a better life in the region
For dey woman
And dey children
Dat must be the ambition of de Caribbean man
De caribbean man
De Caribbean man