Reel To Real Album
Armagiddeon Time (Williams/Mitto)
Lotta people won’t get no supper tonight
Lotta people gonna have to suffer tonight
Cos the battle is getting harder
In this iration
It’s armagiddeon time
Lotta people won’t get no justice tonight
A lot of people gonna have to stand up and fight
But remember
You better think it over
In this iration
It’s armagiddeon time
Lotta people running and hiding tonight
Lotta people gonna run and hide tonight
Cos it’s your action
You must get your fraction
In this iration
It’s armagiddeon time
Algebra (Pauline Black & Nick Welsh)
It’s elementary
You know there’s nothing to it
It’s so simple
Even a child could do it
It’s not
It’s not algebra
I’m a coward
But then I’ve always known it
Too fucking loud
Maybe I’ll outgrow it
It’s not
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s incidental
If you only knew it
I’m temperamental
But I’m working through it
It’s not It’s not algebra
It’s rudimentary
Easy does it
Be complimentary
I know you can do it
It’s not
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s not algebra
It’s elementary
You know there’s nothing to it
It’s so simple
Even a child could do it
It’s not
It’s not algebra
Say the words that I can’t say
Say the words that I can’t say
Say me no like that kind of Babylon
Say me no dig them kind of wicked men
For me no find no righteousness
All I see is dread dread wickedness
Everybody beat down Babylon
Everybody whip them wicked men
Whip them, whip them
Oh what a wicked situation
Must we all die for salvation
This may cause a revolution
Plenty dangerous pollution Everybody beat down Babylon
Everybody whip them wicked men
Whip them, whip them
Never turn your back on them people
Never let them know what you’re doing
Keeping The Trees Clean (Pauline Black & Nick Welsh)
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But names will never hurt me
Negro, nigger, wog, junglebunny
Laugh you coon don’t you think that’s funny
Spade, jigaboo, sambo, darky
For those who are poets,
Just paddy-malarkey
Picaninny, half-caste, burrhead and blacky
But why stop there let’s get seriously whacky
Gosh there’s a golly, a mangomuncher
Rubber lips, a callaloo cruncher
Quadroon, high-yella, octoroon and lily-skin
This is the shape our culture’s in
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
How does it feel to truly belong
To know how you act is never wrong
Always keeping expectations high
Looking everyone square in the eye
Never blamed for each indiscretion
Conscious of leaving negative impressions
Analysing every move that you make
In every minute from the time that you wake
Repeating a sentence again and again
As if you were given less of a brain
Hassling for every crumb from the table
From the time you climbed out of the cradle
Breaking your back ‘cos you leant too far over
To accommodate those rolling in clover
Assimilating patterns of human behaviour
Where everything’s white, including the Saviour
But hey,
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
I’m keeping the trees clean
A Monkey's Uncle (Pauline Black & Nick Welsh)
Mr Darwin say
He find a way
Now he know the secret of man
Mr Ignorant bray
Darwin you strayed
Away from the path of God’s plan
With his shiny tooth
Say the Bible is truth
The only message that has any worth
Mr Darwin have proof
Man is not aloof
He evolve from everything you find on earth
A monkey’s uncle, a monkey’s uncle
He make a monkey’s uncle out of you
So they argue all day
Mr. Darwin explain
Exactly how he find his remedy
Cos Mr. Ignorant’s faith
And all the time he wastes
Will never tell us how we came to be
A monkey’s uncle, a monkey’s uncle
He make a monkey’s uncle out of you
Oh Oh Oh A monkey’s uncle is what you will be
Oh Oh Oh If you think we come from Adam and Eve
Oh Oh Oh Why is it so hard to see
The world these days is run by chimpanzees
Mr Einstein steps in
Explains with a grin
All about relativity
But Mr Ignorant say
How did such a clever brain
Come from a chimpanzee
Mrs. Curie drop by
Just to say hi
Put Mr. Ignorant in his place
With her X-X-rays
She try to find his brain
But only found a very big space
A monkey’s uncle, a monkey’s uncle
He make a monkey’s uncle out of you
So they argue all night
Mr Ignorant take fright
Everybody laughing at him
If you take away science
And only show defiance
You’ll be swinging out there on a tree limb
A monkey’s uncle, a monkey’s uncle
He make a monkey’s uncle out of you
If you want to live treat me good
I’m like a stepping razor
Don’t you watch my sides
I’m dangerous
If you are a bully treat me good
I’m like a stepping razor
Don’t you watch my sides
I’m dangerous
If you are a chuckee, don’t bother chuck with me
I’m like a stepping razor
Don’t you watch my sides
I’m dangerous
If you eat salt, better treat me good
If you drink lead soup, better treat me good
I’m like a stepping razor
Don’t you watch my sides
I’m dangerous
If you are a bull bucker, don’t bother buck with me
If you are a duppy, keep away from me
I’m like a stepping razor
Don’t you watch my sides
I’m dangerous
Shock To The System (Pauline Black & Nick Welsh)
Hey would you say
When things are going your way
There is always someone out there to destroy it
Hey do you find
When you get peace of mind
You never get the time to enjoy it
Giving you the world
And all that’s in it girl
Eyes too big to see the small print on it
I don’t think co-incidence
Explains this higher plain
Picks you up
Puts you down
Knocks you down again
You get a shock
A shock to the system
You get a shock
A shock to the mind
Hey do you feel
When you get something real
It always seems so hard to hang on to
Hey when you see
The answer to all your dreams
Just another nightmare’s waiting for you
What is the significance
In life’s silly games
Lights you up
Blows you out
Like a candle flame
Where is my deliverance
From the howling rain
Blows you down
Lifts you up
Like a hurricane
You get a shock
A shock to the system
You get a shock
A shock to the mind
Do It Right (Pauline Black & Nick Welsh)
Do it right
No sugar spite
All bad minded people hard to fight
Do it right
No sugar spite
Open your eyes
Don’t give up
Vengeance laid upon you not enough
Do it right
No sugar spite
Every stone sharpens the knife
To cut you down
Every day shortens your life
If you don’t look out
Do it right
No sugar spite
Crawling on your belly in the night
Do it right
No sugar spite
Every stone sharpens the knife
To cut you down
Every day shortens your life
If you don’t watch out
Do it right
No sugar spite
Crawling on your belly in the night
Do it right
No sugar spite
Peace Crisis (Pauline Black & Nick Welsh)
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Fortune favours those with most to lose
Poverty favours those who got no shoes
Everyone’s mouth is full of sadness
Everyone’s eyes are dripping sadness
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Moral high ground will make you slip
Everybody want to militarise it
Everybody thinks they are the wisest
Think their army’s the finest
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
Peace crisis
What you gonna do about it