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 1066 and all dat
• dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat
• But Toussaint L'Ouverture no dem never tell me bout dat
• Toussaint

  a slave

  with vision
• lick back

  Napoleon

  battalion
• and first Black

  Republic born
• Toussaint de thorn

  to de French
• 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 ran away with de spoon
• but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon
• Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream
• fire-woman struggle hopeful stream to freedom river
• 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
• Dem tell me bout Florence Nightingale and she lamp
• and how Robin Hood used to camp
• Dem tell me bout ole King Cole was a merry ole soul
• but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole
• From Jamaica she travel far
• to the Crimean War she volunteer to go
• and even when de British said no
•  she still brave the Russian snow
• a healing star among the wounded
• a yellow sunrise to the dying
• Dem tell me

  Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me
• But now I checking out me own history
• I carving out me identity