Checking Out Me History

• "Dem tell me

  Dem tell me

  Wha dem want to tell me"
• "Bandage up me eye with me own history

  Blind me to me own identity"
• "dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat"
• "Toussaint de beacon

  of de Haitian Revolution"
• "Dem tell me bout de man who discover de balloon

  and de cow who jump over de moon

  Dem tell me bout de dish run away with de spoon"
• "Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo

  but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu

  Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492

  but what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too"
• "a healing star

  among the wounded

  a yellow sunrise

  to the dying"
• "But now I checking out me own history

  I carving out me identity"