Testo Just Wanna Know - Papa Dee
Testo della canzone Just Wanna Know (Papa Dee), tratta dall'album The Red Hut Sessions
Everybody got to take responsibility
Especially when it comes to the family
And the wife and the pickney
Every action cause a reaction y'all
Music and drink to keep you rocking and swinging
As I would say
Until you found as long as I would talking 'bout you
I gotta keep on searching and searching and searching y'all
I just wanna know
I think it's my prerogative
I just wanna know
How you been?
Because I got a life to live
Talking 'bout mi African roots
Searching for my African roots, Lord
I'm talking 'bout mi African roots
Somebody out there need to tell me the truth
As I would say
Well it's a big time mystery
Big part of mi personal history
I'm talking 'bout mi African daddy, woi
Supposedly he served with his family
Them say he used to work for the embassy
Right there inna London city, hey
And mi say that's where we met mommy
Ghana was his country and his name was Daniel Cuffee y'all
Then things got funny
And no information from mommy, Lord
Him just disappear like he was never there
Like a magic trick as I would tell y'all, hey
Talking 'bout mi African roots
Lord I'm searching for mi African roots, woi
I just wanna know
I think it's my prerogative
I just wanna know
Really and truly
'Cause I got my life to live
Talking 'bout mi African roots
Said I'm searching for my African roots, Lord
Talking 'bout mi African roots
Somebody better tell me the truth
As I would say
Now mi turn twenty, mi went to London city
Went to where he used to work down at Ghana embassy
Asked for information about an employee
Who worked there from 1965 to '73
To my surprise they couldn't help me
Fat corrupt staff just too bloodclaat lazy
We don't keep records that far back you see
Well I could see it in his eyes that was pure fuckery
Another dead end alley for me
Another dead end alley for me
Searching for my African roots, woi
Searching for my African roots, Lord
I keep on searching and a searching and a searching
Ah searching and a searching and searching y'all
I just wanna know
I think it's my prerogative
I just wanna know
'Cause I got my life to live
I just wanna know
'Cause I got to move on
Just gotta know
Really gotta know
No longer will I run
African roots
Said I'm searching for my African roots, woi
Talking 'bout mi African roots
Said it's all about the African roots
And me searching for the truth y'all
Mi mother she dead and gone
Now someone tell mi how we a go move on
Who a go tell mi the facts, Lord
It's like a needle in a haystack, hey
Say weh mi a go tell the little one
I said, wa mi a go tell mi little son
When him ask 'bout him grandfather
I say him too out of order
A weh mi say?
When him ask mi 'bout mi grand dada
It's a family enigma, what a thing
All I really got was a really glimpse history about
An African man that she met on vacation inna London
And then suddenly he wasn't there
Him just disappear
It's like a magic trick as I would say
Somebody step forward and tell mi the truth
About mi African roots, hey
The African roots, Lord
Talking 'bout mi African roots, hey
Credits
Writer(s): Julia Karlsson, Victor Thell, Anton Rundberg, Sandro Cavazza, Felix Safran De Laet
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