Acknowledge Your Own History-Jungle Brothers

[ti:Acknowledge Your Own History (Album Version)] [ar:Jungle Brothers] [al:Done By The Forces Of Nature] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.96]You don't know who you are [00:05.04]Look back into your past brother [00:07.01]Look back into your past sister [00:09.21]You don't know who you are [00:13.90]Look back into your past sister [00:14.97]Look back into your past brother [00:17.75]My forefather was a king [00:19.79]He wore fat gold chains and fat ruby rings [00:22.03]Nobody believes this to be true [00:23.71]Maybe it's because my eyes ain't blue [00:26.14]You ain't gonna find it in your history book [00:28.25]Come here young blood and take a look [00:30.64]You dig down deep inside this hard cover [00:32.96]Don't you know you was bought brother [00:34.33]All you read about is slavery [00:36.17]Never about the black man's bravery [00:38.30]You look at the pictures and all they show is [00:41.64]African people with bones in their noses [00:43.87]That ain't true that's a lie [00:46.03]You didn't get that from my lemon pie [00:48.10]Yeah I cut class I got a D [00:50.31]'Cause history meant nothing to me [00:52.47]Except a definite nap that's why I always sat in the back [00:56.13]I'd talk to girls or write a rhyme 'cause I didn't know [00:59.46]All times are black man's times [01:01.34]When I was young my mama told me stories [01:03.33]Of black peoples' fight to bring us glory [01:05.52]I used to think these were stories to put me to sleep [01:07.93]But now I know mama's talk wasn't cheap [01:09.63]Now I know Afrika's for Afrikaans [01:10.99]And history's the blood of every woman and man [01:13.91]Now I begin another search the incredibly involved [01:18.52]The incredibly difficult and incredibly frustrating search [01:21.21]Now I begin another search the incredibly involved [01:24.26]The incredibly difficult and incredibly frustrating search [01:27.38]Trying to pull together the history of the people [01:31.92]Page one page two page three [01:33.92]And still no signs of me [01:35.56]Yeah so I looked into the table of contents [01:37.46]They wrote a little thing about us in the projects [01:38.98] [01:39.56]The only history we make is if we kill somebody [01:41.78]Rape somebody but other than that we're nobody [01:44.07]Speaking like a brother living in the jungle [01:46.39]I know I was here first but I remain humble [01:48.38]Now it's time to rekindle the fire [01:50.36]A tribe of young brothers with the eye of the tiger [01:52.85]Acknowledge your own we have a home [01:54.59]Put on this earth to live and roam [01:56.86]Christopher chose to explore [01:58.27]Discovered America yeah sure [02:01.27]He thought the planet was square [02:03.15]Traveled many places but we already had been there [02:06.04]We left tracks backtrack back [02:07.34]First civilization you know where that was found at [02:10.89]Looking for the true black days of glory [02:12.47]But you read in history that's his story [02:13.97]The red's for the blood and the black's for the man [02:18.58]The green is the color that stands for the land [02:22.41]The red's for the blood and the black's for the man [02:26.77]The green is the color that stands for the land [02:31.64]The red's for the blood and the black's for the man [02:35.80]The green is the color that stands for the land [02:40.66]The red's for the blood and the black's for the man [02:43.91]The green is the color that stands for the land