Follow me, upon a Black Star Line   Off for the rest and for Brand Nubian   Now go to Africa again, watch dis!      Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind   Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind      Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind   Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind      It's the Black Star Line that's leavin' at nine   Here's a paid ticket so you can free your mind   Playgrounds is filled with visions of steel   Grab the black babies, it's time to build      See we got a mental ship somethin' like Noah's Ark   Spark your brain cell, now let's set sail   With no avail, we flowin' on a positive trip   All Nubians is welcome, male and female      I, wouldn't resort, to askin' for a passport   Love vibes rule so your black face is cool   Cool, but not frozen, a trip for the chosen few      Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner   Goin' to Africa, one more time   Goin' to Africa, one more time   Goin' to Africa, one more time      Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner   Goin' to Africa, one more time, true   Let me tell you bout Marcus Garvey   Born in Jamaica, God left him in country      He go to America to make black people free   He walk around low and just try make money   Him buy up some ship and just start for we   America or Africa and live irie      We have some man where wan gonna be   Young nasty and just licky licky   Some love Marcus Garvey, the place of peace   Or peace around it, and dem sparkle up him say      I just light up, make the first hungry   Writer no block it but just run follow me   Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner   Goin' to Africa, one more time      Form a line-ah, upon the Black Star Liner   Brand Nubian, tell dem one more time      As we look to the stars, they take ours   Yeah, we got fly cars but you can live in four wheels?   We need new approaches, old style is null and void   Makes me paranoid, to think   That we own the whole ocean yet we can't even drink      You couldn't swim the nine thousand so we got you a means   Of transportation, for the Nubian nation   Marcus Garvey had the idea back in the days   Doin' for self, keepin' the wealth      I gotta add on and create   Though the devil thinks   It's not the latest fashion   Navigatin' lost, somethin' like a ship's captain      Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind   Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind      Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind   Black Star Line, it's the Black Star Line   Everybody come aboard, and free your mind      When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms   Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black   Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black   Call me proud to be black, cause I'm not tryin' to fuck      When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot   When I'm proud to be black, I'm not some young eedyot   Be gone, I want no dem I want no dem-dem dem-dem dem-dem   Never know they wickedness they haffa come to an end      Don't take a no fey word for de white boy dem   Awayaa, tell me, all you get in de end   Awayaa, tell me, all you get isa dem   Awayaa, tell me, all you get more den dey spend      C'mon, tell de world black man entertainer   Rock dem one and rock entertained   Tell the Red Foxx style dem a get   When I'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms      Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black   Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black      Brand Nubian wanna give NUFF   Respect to the one Marcus Garvey   NUFF respect to Red Foxx   Sting International in the house      Dave Kennedy on the boards   KnowhatI'msayin'? The one Rafael   Nuff respect to the God Sincere      Yeah, yaknowhatI'msayin'?   Mark the Spark is in the house   And umm, this how we work out   For the ninety-two season