Road to slavery Lyrics

Remember, this is Nigeria and Africa, we are kings and queens and we rule the world

We should stand up with the talents and make it out, you know

Sometimes, I wonder why, tears fall down from my eyes

Many years ago, we want to talk

Many years ago, the shut our trap ooooo

Oyeebo bo bo wa gbe gbo gbo walor

Won gbe gbogbo n ka tani

We were held in chains, we Were held bounded

Badagry na the place, we were Shipped like goods

After the first river, there's an Island there

Before we go into the sea, road to slavery

Road to slavery

Road to slavery

Taught me lessons

Now that, we know who we are

We must make our country Great, cause we are free

The nation's economy

Rest on our shoulders

We the youth

We should discover who we are

We should open up, open to the World

We should never stop, even When we fall

We should keep our heads Straight and tall

No, no Dey send them Wetin Them talk

Just Dey do your thing, never ever fall

We are free and we living life

Use your talent, raise your Country and make it free

Road to slavery

Road to slavery

Road to slavery

Taught me lessons

When slavery began, young Girls were there

Defenseless in their retchedness

Whose stifled sobs and deep despair

Revealed the anguish of their breast

And women stood with streaming eyes

And saw their dearest children sold

Unheeded rose their bitter cries

As tyrants bartered them for gold

And men, whose sole crime was their hue

The impress of their maker's hand

And small and trembling children

Too were gathered in that mournful band

And women, with their love and truth

For those in sable forms do dwell

Gazed on the lovers of their youth

With anguish none may paint nor tell

You who have laid your loves to rest

And wept above that lifeless clay

Know not the anguish of the breast

Whose loves are rudely torn away

The sale began

Frances Ellen Watkins Spoken word