And I was on the chain gang
Chain gang, chain gang, always talk about the chain
Gang, man, the chain gang, does a hell of a thing
Renaissance Child, dedicated to Nat Turner
A true Maccabean rebel
Yo, let me tell y'all this story
They had us handcuffed on them sea ships, since the days of Egypt
Now we sittin' in the racist precinct
Black Hebrews, from centuries ago
Young negroes with dark skinned afros, who built castles
White halos, on black anglos
Who was sold like Joseph by his own brother
Later on to free his own mother
We only suffer cause of God love us
Given to the hands of blood suckers
A lost tribe that was undiscovered
Until the British came and bum rushed us
What you think my Desert Eagle's fo'?
That's why Moses told Pharaoh let his people go
Until this day that same evil grows
From overseers, to Caesars, to black C.O.'s
In a prison cell, livin' hell, naked and cold
You feel the chills when you hear them key holes
Of your freedom get closed
In the end we all reap what we sow
It go, Deuteronomy twenty-eight, verse forty-eight
We was a chain gang, split up, and brought to these states
Children of Zion was choked by them yolks of iron
Now they screamin' let bygones be bygones
And burn icons, before they whitewash, everything bronze
Told the Israelites they took away they right to bear arms
Johnny Hawkins, captured us and started auctions
Back when cowboy spurs were for birth abortions
Queen Elizabeth, sponsored and she helped fund it
And we was slaughtered like some cattle
That been hunted through them jungles
Kept in dungeons, of London, in the fifteen hundreds
While they waited for the slaves the ship Mayflower brung in
Now if a riot was to rise, it'll still be genocide
Black on black crime, kept us fallin' behind
Involuntary servitude, had us servin' 'em food
A holocaust, of the last Jews, they shoulda been sued
Left our fathers in a solitude, sharpenin' spoons
On a chain gang singin' about poverty blues
It go, Deuteronomy twenty-eight, verse forty-eight
We was a chain gang, split up, and brought to these states
It go, Deuteronomy twenty-eight, verse forty-eight
We was a chain gang, split up, and brought to these states
It go chain gang, same things
Same faces, same names
Same hell, same flames
Chain gangs, chain gang, same names
Same faces, same hell, same flames
J.A. Rogers, part of the
JoAnne Chesimard, part of the
Harriet Tubman, part of the
This goes out
Sister Sojourner Truth, part of the
Che Guevara, part of the
To all those true
Malcolm X be part of the
True and livin' soldiers out there that die for the truth
Clarence 13X, part of the
Instead of Allah
Khalid Muhammad, part of the
People that
Rabbi Bivins, part of the
Left somethin' for us to survive off of, in these last days
Daddy Rose, part of the
Huey P. Newton, part of the
Dred Scott, part of the
That's how it go down
Nat Turner, part of the
We can't put it out in them schools
Nobutu Amin, part of the
We gon' put it out in hip hop
Fidel Castro, part of the
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