I and I keep fighting for the rights!



I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights, yeh

I and I keep fighting for our rights



Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, a one a we

Messiah Marcus Garvey, a one a we

Malcolm X as you know him, a one a we

Man like Paul Bogle the same one, a one a we



I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights



We are coming through the hands of Henry Morgan

And man like long john silver in a dis ya runnings

They say our land is also a pirate port

That mean they kill my brothers and sisters

And take it for sport, don't you know say



A girl like sister nanny a one a we

A man like brother cojo lord a one a we

Man like tacky a one a we

Man like president Tugman a one a we

Man like brother Bob Marley a one a we

But most of all to stand by our side

As the King of Kings, Lord of Lords

Emperor Haile Selassie I and I, ey-ey



I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights



Brought us down here on the plantation

To work hard and feed everyone

And when we nuh feed the old Babylon them turn

And call we wicked man



I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights



Brought us from Africa to slave we

Whole time on the plantation

And when it's time for us to get we pay they say

Go away you a old black man



I and I keep fighting for our rights

I and I keep fighting for our rights