DO YOU KNOW WHO ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE
SOME PEOPLE SAY THEY DO
THEY SAY WHEN MOSES CROSSED THE SEA
HIS EYES WERE REALLY BLUE
DO YOU KNOW WHO ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE
NOW TELL ME, WERE THEY WHITE
IF YOU SAID ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
WERE BLACK THEN YOU ARE RIGHT
DID YOU KNOW WE WERE SCATTERED
ALL THROUGH THIS BIG VAST LAND
IT’S GOD WHO SAID HE’LL LET US RETURN
BY HIS GREAT P0WERFUL HAND
DID YOU KNOW THAT OUR FOREFATHERS
WERE WARRIORS KINGS AND QUEENS
THEY WERE MASTERS AT THE THINGS THEY DID
AND THEIR STUDIES HAD SUCH MEANINGS
DID YOU KNOW THAT KING DAVID
WAS THE KING AND A BLACK MAN
IF YOU LOOK DEEP INSIDE YOURSELF
YOU’LL SEE HIS MOTHER LAND
AND MOST OF ALL OUR LORD JESUS
HIS FEET WAS BROWN LIKE BRONZE
HIS HAIR WAS WOOL LIKE A WILD SHEEP’S COAT
AND HIS COUNTENANCE THEY DID SHINE
NO WE DIDN’T KNOW THAT OUR PEOPLE
WERE THE GREATEST IN ALL THERE LAND
THEY BUILT THEY SCULPT THEY DID ALL THINGS
AND MOSTLY WITH THEIR HANDS
THEIR MONUMENTS ARE HERE TODAY
THE PYRAMIDS THEY STAND TALL
THEY LEFT US A GIFT OF MEMORIES
SO WE’LL KNOW WE’LL NEVER FALL
NO WE DIDN’T KNOW THE FIRST SCIENTIST
WAS THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN
EVEN DOCTORS AND LAWYERS AND ENGINEERS
MATHEMATICIANS AND BUSINESSMEN
NO WE DIDN’T KNOW THAT ALL MEDICINE
CAME FROM DEEP FROM THE EARTH WITHIN
BUT OUR PEOPLE HAD LONG DISCOVERED IT
I TELL YOU WE ARE GREAT WOMEN AND MEN
By Sis. Halima

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 1:5