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Linton Kwesi Johnson, If I Woz A Tap-Natch Poet
Linton Kwesi Johnson, If I Woz A Tap-Natch Poet
Like a condumble/ voodoo/ kumina chant, Goon poet better step in line!
An old-time calypso or a slave song ‘Cause Buthelezi might’ve got a couple thousand,
That gets banned, But Mandela, for him
But from granny Thousands and thousands and thousands and
Right down to gran-pickney thousands.
Each and every one
Can recite – that’s the one!