Tag: Nigerian

DAREY ART ALADE: Not The Girl

Darey Art Alade - Not the girl

VERSE 1
I’ve been sitting here for two straight hours watching you asleep
Wishing I could talk to you
There is no denying we both have emotions running deep
Oh! If I could talk to you
Cos I’m scared, cos when I try to take your hand you are not there
And even though I see the signs you think I’m just scared
Gimme one reason why I should hide my fears
When it’s killing me inside

[CHORUS:]
You’re not the girl I used to know, you’re a shadow of yourself
I think I lost you long ago, like a book that’s left a shelf
I hear the footsteps down the hall and I know someday that will be you
Leaving me for good

ASA: Eyo

Asa - Eyo

VERSE 1

Taxis waiting down on the streets so
Hurry up I have to go
Looking round you see all the people
Making faces very cold
Carry me away
Far from the circle that never breaks
Hey hey hey hey hey
Going home, going home
Where this road goes I already know
Where everybody cares for one another
And they take you as their sister

[CHORUS:]
Eyo o, eyo o
Eyo o, eyo o
Where the children run around
There’s laughing in the crowd
I hope it still remains the same
Eyo o, eyo o
Eyo o, eyo o
And there’s something in the song
That makes you feel at home
And that’s what’s calling out my name
Eyo o o, eyo o o.

FELA KUTI: Gentleman

Nigerian musician and composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti performs on September 13, 1986 at the "Party of Humankind" of the French Communist Party at La Courneuve in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

I no be gentleman at all
I no be gentleman at all
I no be gentleman at all o
I no be gentleman at all, at all

I no be gentleman at all o
I be Africa man original
I be Africa man original

Them call you, make you come chop
You chop small, you say you belly full
You say you be gentleman, you go hungry
You go suffer, you go quench
Me I no be gentleman like that

I no be gentleman at all o
I be Africa man original
I be Africa man original
I be Africa man original