paroles de chanson Original Suffer Head - Fela Kuti

You Africans, please listen to me as Africans
And you non-Africans, listen to me with open mind

Suffer suffer suffer suffer
Suffer for World
Na your fault be that
Me I say na your fault be that
Suffer suffer for World

Enjoy for Heaven
Amen
Christians go dey yab*
Amen
" In Spiritum Heavinus"
Amen
Moslems go dey call
Amen
"Allah wa Akbar"
Amen

Open your eye everywhere
Archbishop na miliki*
Pope na enjoyment
Imam na gbaladun*

Archbishop dey enjoy (with)
Pope self dey enjoy (with)
Imam self dey enjoy (with)
My brother wetin* you say? (with)
My brother wetin you say? (with)

My sister wetin you go hear?
My sister wetin you go hear?
Archbishop dey for London
Pope dey for Rome
My people – them go dey follow Bishop
Amen
Them go follow Pope
Amen
Them go follow Imam
Amen
Them go go for London
Amen
Them go go for Rome
Amen
Them go go for Mecca
Amen
Them go carry all the money
Amen
Them go juba* Bishop
Amen
Juba Pope
Amen
Juba Imam
Amen
Them go start to yab themselves

Every day – for house
Every day – for road
Every day – for bus
Every day – for work
My people my people my people
Every day my people inside bus
Suffering and smiling
Forty-nine sitting forty-nine standing
Suffering and smiling
Them go pack themselves in like sardine
Suffering and smiling
Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock
Suffering and smiling
Them go reach house water no dey
Suffering and smiling
Them go reach bed power no dey
Suffering and smiling
Them go reach road go-slow go come
Suffering and smiling
Them go reach road police go slap
Suffering and smiling
Them go reach road army go whip
Suffering and smiling
Them go look pocket money no dey
Suffering and smiling
Every day na the same thing
Suffering and smiling

Suffer suffer for World
Amen
Enjoy for Heaven
Amen
Christians go dey jab
Amen
" In Spiritum Heavinus"
Amen
Moslems go dey call
Amen
"Allah wa Akbar"
Amen

How many many you go make
Many many
Suffer suffer for world
Amen