Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense

Afrobeats

Year2011

Duration25m

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LYRICS: TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O Let's get down, to the underground spiritual game We all sing together, play music together in happiness All you have to do is sing what I play on my horn Now Let's go... A kujuba, A kujuba YE-EHHHH! Yehhhhhh-Ey! Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke YAA! Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke YAA! All the wahala, all the problems, All the things, all the things they go do, For this world go start, When the teacher, schoolboy and schoolgirl jam together Who be teacher I go let you know When we be pikin FATHA/ MAMA BE TEACHER When we dey for school TEACHER BE TEACHER Now dey University LECTURER BE TEACHER When we start to work GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION (*after each line) Who be government teacher Who be government teacher Cu-ulture and tradition Cu-ulture and tradition Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee I go sing about I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass Da go for France YES SIR/YES MAAM (*after each line) Engi-land Italy Germany Na dem culture For der Be teacher For dem Go China Russia Korea Viet Nam Na dem culture For der Be teacher For dem Go Syria Jordan Iran Iraq Na dem culture For der Be teacher For dem Let us face ourselves for Afrika Na de matter of Afrika This part-ee of my song Na all the problems of this world In we dey carry, for Afrika Wey no go ask-ee me WHICH ONE (*after each line) Problems of inflation Problems of corruption Of mismanagement Stealing by government Nothing we dey carry All over Afrika Na de latest one Na him dey make me laugh image: http://static.urx.io/units/web/urx-unit-loader.gi