My Beloved Africa
Meta and the Cornerstones Lyrics

Damian Marley: Well greetings to all the brothers and sisters once again ah huh v oice of the one big Gong Zilla along side the one called Metaphysics ahh woo (haya haya haya ai) oh yeah yes off course of course oh yeah (haya haya haya ai)

Meta Dia: From the day that the beat drop (from the beginning) we've been there (ah no mus huh)
From the day that the tic tac bounced my head (tell them)
So close to Jah boom box rhymes for change (not the one that jingles)
Hope is all I have natty rise again (rise again)
Dusty foot democracy a long walk for equality
We nah go shoot no enemy join the bridges, positive society

My beloved Africa (we love you) you're my nice one (you're my nice one)
My beloved Africa you're my nice one (you're my nice one)
Heavy hearted set in stone like the buildings and streets of our home
Sometimes I look back (setta I) where all my good people at?

Hear me now yo dem visit ina dem vision and dem live in a dem dreams
The elders reminiscing upon shores they have never been
Africans in Africa please don't forget about the past
Somebody thief your cow why would you not reclaim the calf?
And tell me which Shepard is counting every blade of grass
Who wouldn't save dem own ah child no care how much it cost
Who wouldn't want to find our beloved where did lost
Mama Africa you are my nice one
Those sneaky Babylonians with their plots and schemes
Coulda ah never get we no care wah things seems
We dun spot them out on dem criminal themes
We dun spot them out on dem mineral themes say

My beloved Africa you're my nice one
My beloved Africa you're my nice nice nice one (talk to dem Metaphysical)
Heavy hearted set in stone like the buildings and streets of our home
Sometimes I look back (what you see?) where are all my good people at?
Ohhh ohhh ohhh, mi say Africa (yes off course) Africa yeah Ohhh ohhh ohhh, you're my Africa (mines too)

Hear you calling for change (oh beloved art thou oh Mama Africa we love you)
Hear who calling for repatriation (reaching out to all the Africans at home and abroad)
Citrus in my sweets taste of Heaven (love is large)
Its your dream its your dream say you have to know that
Dem ah tricky silly will satta money dem about
Meta D Jah Jah live where my Natty soldiers
Mi say Chale ah go free, Africa is about time
Beautiful smiling faces, the culture, the heritage, the history the Love, the Ancestry ehhh!

My beloved Africa you're my nice one
My beloved africa you're my nice nice nice one
Heavy hearted set in stone (heavy) like the buildings and streets of our home
Sometimes I look back where all my good people at? (somi chima lady amen...)

When I think about my land (somi chima wouro amen...)
When I think about where I'm from (somi chima lady amen…)
I'm very proud (somi chima wouro amen...) it's all love
Our Africa ohh ohh ohh me say Africa
Ohh ohh ohh Africa, my place of birth

Contributed by Kaylee E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.