Shuffering and Shmiling

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This is only a taste of our next release
 Suffering And Shmiling
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 You Africans, please listen to me as Africans
 And you non-Africans, listen to me with open mind
 Suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer
 Suffer for world
 Na your fault be that
 Me I say: na your fault be
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 Suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer
 Suffer for world
 Na your fault be that
 Me I say: na your fault be
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 I want you all to please take your minds
 Out of this musical contraption
 And put your minds into any goddamn church
 Any goddamn mosque
 Any goddamn Celestical
 Including Seraphoom and Cheruboom
 Now, we are all there now
 Our minds are in those places
 Here we go
 Suffer, suffer for world (amen!)
 Enjoy for Heaven (amen!)
 Christians go dey yab (amen!)
 "In Spiritum Heavinus" (amen!)
 Muslims go dey call (amen!)
 "Allahu Akbar" (amen!)
 Suffer, suffer for world (amen!)
 Enjoy for Heaven (amen!)
 Christians go dey yab (amen!)
 "In Spiritum Heavinus" (amen!)
 Muslims go dey call (amen!)
 "Allahu Akbar" (amen!)
 Open you eye everywhere
 Archbishop na miliki
 Pope na enjoyment
 Imam na gbaladun
 Archbishop na miliki
 Pope na enjoyment
 Imam na gbaladun
 Archbishop dey enjoy
 Pope self dey enjoy
 Imam self dey enjoy
 My brother wetin you say?
 My brother wetin you say?
 Archbishop dey enjoy
 Pope self dey enjoy
 Imam self dey enjoy
 My brother wetin you say?
 My brother wetin you say?
 My sister wetin you go hear?
 My sister wetin you go hear?
 Archbishop dey for London
 Pope dey for Rome
 Imam dey for Mecca
 Archbishop dey for London
 Pope dey for Rome
 Imam dey for Mecca
 My people them go dey follow Bishop (amen!)
 Them go follow Pope (amen!)
 Them go follow Imam (amen!)
 Them go go for London (amen!)
 Them go go for Rome (amen!)
 Them go go for Mecca (amen!)
 Them go carry all the money (amen!)
 Them go juba Bishop (amen!)
 Juba Pope (amen!)
 Juba Imam (amen!)
 Then them go start to yab themselves (amen!)
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 Every day, for house
 Every day, for road
 Every day, for bus
 Every day, for work
 Every day, for house
 Every day, for road
 Every day, for bus
 Every day, for work
 My people, my people, my people, my people
 We now have to carry our minds
 Out of those goddamn places
 Back into this musical contraption
 Right opposite you
 Now we are back here
 This is what happens to we Africans every day
 Now wetin I want tell you now
 Na secret o, na confidential matter
 Don't tell anybody outside
 Na between me and you
 Now listen
 As I dey say before
 E dey happen to all of us every day
 We Africans all over the world
 Now listen
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 Every day my people dey inside bus (suffering and smiling!)
 Every day my people dey inside bus (suffering and smiling!)
 Forty-nine sitting, ninety-nine standing (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go pack themselves in like sardine (suffering and smiling!)
 Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go reach house, water no dey (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go reach bed, power no dey (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go reach road, go-slow go come (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go reach road, police go slap (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go reach road, army go whip (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go look pocket, money no dey (suffering and smiling!)
 Them go reach work, query ready (suffering and smiling!)
 Every day na the same thing (suffering and smiling!)
 Every day na the same thing (suffering and smiling!)
 Every day na the same thing (suffering and smiling!)
 Every day na the same thing (suffering and smiling!)
 Suffer, suffer for world (amen!)
 Enjoy for Heaven (amen!)
 Christians go dey yab (amen!)
 "In Spiritum Heavinus" (amen!)
 Muslims go dey call (amen!)
 "Allahu Akbar" (amen!)
 Suffer, suffer for world (amen!)
 Enjoy for Heaven (amen!)
 Christians go dey yab (amen!)
 "In Spiritum Heavinus" (amen!)
 Muslims go dey call (amen!)
 "Allahu Akbar" (amen!)
 How many, many a many you go make? (amen!)
 Many, many (amen!)
 How many, many a many you go make? (amen!)
 Many, many (amen!)
 How many, many a many you go make? (amen!)
 Many, many (amen!)
 How many, many a many you go make? (amen!)
 Many, many (amen!)
 Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen
 Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen
 Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen
 Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen
 

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Song Details

Duration
12:25
Key
10
Tempo
123 BPM

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