(feat. K'naan

with Damian Marley)




[Intro: Jr. Gong]

Morning to you man

Morning to you love

Hey, I say I say



[Chorus 2x]

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



[Nas: Verse 1]

The black oasis

Ancient Africa the sacred 

Awaken the sleeping giant

Science, Art is your creation

I dreamt that we could visit Old Kemet

Your history is too complex and ridig

For some western critics

They want the whole subject diminished

But Africa's the origin of all the world's religions

We praised bridges that carried us over

The battle front of Sudanic soldiers

The task put before us



[Chorus 2x]



[Nas: Verse 2]

Who are we today?

The slums,deceases, AIDS

We need all that to fade

We cannot be afraid 

So who are we today?

We are the morning after

The make shift youth

The slave ship captured

Our Diaspora, is the final chapter

The ancetral lineage built pyramids

Americas first immigrant

The Kings sons and daughters from Nile waters

The first architect, the first philosophers, astronomers

The first prophets and doctors was 



[Bridge: Jr.Gong]

Now can we all pray

Each in his own way

Teaching and Learning

And we can work it out

We'll have a warm bed

We'll have some warm bread

And shelter from the storm dread

And we can work it out

Mother Nature feeds all

In famine and drought

Tell those selfish in ways

Not to share us out

What's a tree without root

Lion without tooth

A lie without truth

you hear me out



[Chorus]

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

Ye lord

Africa must wake up

The sleeping sons of Jacob

For what tomorrow may bring

May some more love come

Yesterday we were Kings

I'll tell you young blood

This world is yours today



[K'naan]

[Somali] 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

[translation]

Oh ye people restless in the refusal of peace

and when a man chooses religion, aren't you the one's to kill him?

and when a country is built, aren't you the one's to tear it down?

and when one attempts to tell the truth, aren't you the one's to cut him down?

Who are we today?

Morning to you

Morning to you man

Morning to you love