The Mighty Duke - Black Is Beautiful lyrics
rate meA many, many, many years it took<br />
Now we have found the natural look<br />
A many, many, many years it took<br />
Us to find this natural look<br />
Suddenly out of the blue<br />
This thing has struck like something new<br />
Everybody young and old<br />
Going afro telling the world<br />
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Chorus<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Look at the gloss<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
It's the texture of course<br />
Lift your head like me<br />
You got to wear the colour with dignity<br />
How it go now! <br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Ah say to sing it aloud<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Say I'm black and proud<br />
It's high time that we get rid of that old slave mentality.<br />
<br />
It's quite important, simple though it seem<br />
We have achieved what once was thought a dream<br />
We have been imitating in the past<br />
Now we have found our very own at last<br />
No more hot combs to press we hair<br />
And no more bleach creams to make us clear.<br />
Proudly I say without pretext<br />
No more inferiority complex<br />
Because we know<br />
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Chorus<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Look at the shine<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
It's yours and mine<br />
When you walk this land<br />
Believe you are equal to any man<br />
How it go now! <br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Ah say to sing it aloud<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Say I'm black and proud<br />
It's high time that we get rid of that old slave mentality.<br />
<br />
My brother why do you deny the fact<br />
When someone says that you are black<br />
Your skin is very clear, I do agree<br />
But don't you know you're coloured just like me<br />
There is no in between in race<br />
One has to find his rightful place<br />
To live a lie it's clear to me<br />
You are ashamed of your ancestry.<br />
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Chorus<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Look at the shine<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
It's yours and mine<br />
Lift your head like me<br />
You got to wear the colour with dignity<br />
How it go now! <br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Ah say to sing it aloud<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Say I'm black and proud<br />
It's high time that we get rid of that old slave mentality.<br />
<br />
I hope you don't misunderstand me none<br />
I'm not comparing us with anyone<br />
Just simply saying coloured though we are<br />
Should never feel ourselves inferior<br />
The Lord above who made the night and day<br />
Has given both their equal parts to play<br />
So if you are on our side<br />
Open your mouth and shout it with pride.<br />
How it go! <br />
<br />
Chorus<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Look at the gloss<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
It's the texture of course<br />
Lift your head like me<br />
Ah say to wear the colour with dignity<br />
How it go now! <br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Ah say to sing it aloud<br />
Black is beautiful<br />
Say I'm black and proud<br />
Erase completely this feeling of inferiority.
