Eddy Grant

Baby Come Back


Come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back

This is the first time until today
That you have run away
I'm asking you for the first time
Love me [unintelligible] stay (all right)
Hey (all right)
Hey (all right!)
Hey, yeah

Come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back

There ain't no use in you crying
'Cause I'm more hurt than you
I shoulda not been out flirting
But now my love is true
Ooh (all right)
Ooh (OK!)
Ooh, yeah

Come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back
Baby, come back

Come back, baby, don't you leave me
Baby, baby, please don't go
Oh, won't you give me a second chance
Baby, I love you so (all right)
Oh (oh, yeah)
Oh (okay)
Oh, yeah

Come back
I said baby, come back
I said baby, come back
Oh won't you please come back
Oh won't you please come back [continue to fade]

Gimme Hope, Jo'anna


Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one

(Chorus
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come

I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbours' borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
Is dang'rous to ev'ryone

(Chorus)

She's got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation

(Chorus)

Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna
If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning
Oh don't make me wait till the morning come

(Chorus)

Electric Avenue


Down in the street there is violence
And a lots of work to be done
No place to hang out our washing
And I can't blame all on the sun, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Workin' so hard like a soldier
Can't afford a thing on TV
Deep in my heart I'm a warrior
Can't get food for them kid, good God

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Who is to blame in one country
Never can get to the one
Dealin' in multiplication
And they still can't feed everyone, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Out in the street...
Out in the street...
Out in the playground...
In the dark side of town...

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Rock it in the daytime
Rock it in the night..

I Don't Wanna Dance


I don't wanna dance
Dance with you baby no more
I'll never do something to hurt you, though
Oh but the feeling is bad
The feeling is bad

I love your personality
But I don't want our love on show
Sometimes I think it's insanity
Girl the way you go

With all of the guys on the corner
Oh baby, you're the latest trick
Oh, you seem to have their number
Look they're dancing still

I don't wanna dance
Dance with you baby no more
I'll never do something to hurt you, though
Oh but the feeling is bad
The feeling is bad

Solo

Baby now the party's over
For us, so I'll be on my way
Now that the things which moved me
Are standing still

I know it's only superstition
Baby, but I won't look back
Even though I feel your music
Baby that is that

I don't wanna dance
Dance with you baby no more
I'll never do something to hurt you, though
Oh but the feeling is bad
The feeling is bad

Don't wanna dance
Don't wanna dance
Don't wanna dance
Don't wanna dance
Don't wanna dance
Don't wanna dance
Don't wanna dance

I don't wanna dance
Dance with you baby no more
I'll never do something to hurt you, though
Oh but the feeling is bad
The feeling is bad

War Party


You invite me to a war party
Me no wanna go

Everybody seem to be inviting me to
A war party, me no wanna go
Heard about the last one
So thanks but no thank you

You killed off all the Indians
And you killed off all the slaves
But not quite
So you killed off the remains
You a look for me, and I'm looking for you
I can't believe what they say bout you is true
That you're a bad star just like Pharoah
You killed the children just like Pharoah
Now you sent a ticket for me
It don't have R.S.V.P

Oh Lord it's a war party
Me no wanna go
Heard about the last one
So thanks but no thank you

You've invited all our wise men
Many times before
To dance around your fires
And even out your scores
And when the tolls taken
Of the valiant and the brave
The only decoration is the one upon the graves

Oh no You're a bad star- just like Pharoah
You killed the children just like Pharoah
Now you sent a ticket for me
And it don't have R.S.V.P

Oh Lord it's a war party
Me no wanna go
Everybody seen to be inviting me to
A war party
Me no wanna go
Heard about the last one
So thanks but no thank you


Please don't send no ticket for me
No don't send no ticket
No don't send no ticket for me
If it don't have R.S.V.P

Oh Lord it's a war party
Me no wanna go
Everybody seen to be inviting me to
A war party
Me no wanna go
Heard about the last one
So thanks but no thank you

Do you wanna go, say no
Do you wanna go, say no
Do you wanna go, say no
Me no wanna go right now
Me no wanna go right now
They invite me to war party
Me no wanna go
Heard about the last one
So thanks but no thank you

Romancing The Stone


I'm romancing the stone, never leaving your poor heart alone
Every night and every day gonna love the hurtin' away
I'm romancing the stone, never leaving your poor heart alone
Every night and every day gonna love the hurtin' away

Tonight, tonight I'm falling where the peaceful waters flow
Where the unicorn's the last one at the water hole
I have found a love so precious, like an emerald so bold
It's a firelight escaping from the jeweller's hold

I'm romancing the stone, never leaving your poor heart alone
Every night and every day gonna love the hurtin' away
I'm romancing the stone, never leaving your poor heart alone
Every night and every day gonna love the hurtin' away

Oh and in the heat of rapture when I feel the cold winds blow
Through the broken glass, I'll see at last the sweet desire in you
I will climb up on my pulpit and I'll preach a sermon, you
On the mountain roads, in Harlem, feel my jeweller's hold

I'm romancing the stone, never leaving your poor heart alone
Every night and every day gonna love the hurtin' away
I'm romancing the stone, never leaving your poor heart alone
Every night and every day gonna love the hurtin' away

Till I Cant Take Love No More


I don't know what to do
I don't know what to say.
I never had a love
to measure up to your love.
And all the little ways
that you been good to me

I've never been afraid
oh
come and give me your love.
Till I can't take love no more
give me love.
Till I can't take no more
till I can't take love no more
till I can't.
And if I had to bet on all the loves I've had

Come on
don't be sad
ten to one its your love.
It would run away with every single place.
Oh
sweet love is this
come on
give me more love.
Till I can't take love no more
give me love.
Till I can't take no more
till I can't take love no more

Give me love till I can't take no more.
And all the little ways
that you been good to me

I've never been afraid
oh
come and give me your love.
It would run away with every single place.
Oh
sweet love is this
come on
give me more love.

Till I can't take love no more
give me love. . . .
Till I can't take love no more
give me love. . ..
Till I can't take love no more
give me love. . . .

Walking On Sunshine


Oh, do it, do it
Oh, do it, do it

Looking through the morning dew
At smokey mountains, nothing new
Lead me to the mountain top
And we'll work until it's time to stop

Oh baby, you're mine, you're mine
You're walking on sunshine
(And I) got to tell you that you doing fine
Walking on sunshine
Oh
(And I got to) tell you that you're doing fine
Walking on sunshine

Oh, living isn't everything
But you know the feeling love can bring
I said when you're floating through your cloud
Baby don't you shout too loud

Oh darlin'

I said that you're mine, you're mine, oh
You're walking on sunshine
(And I) got to tell you that you doing fine
Walking on sunshine
Oh
(I got to) tell you that you're doing fine
Walking on sunshine
Oh

That's right, get there
(Oh baby) everybody (yeah)
(x3)

Looking through the morning dew
At smokey mountains, nothing new
Lead me to the mountain top
And we'll work until it's time to stop

Oh baby, you're mine, you're mine
You're walking on sunshine
(And I got to) tell you that you doing fine
Walking on sunshine
Oh
(I got to) tell you that you're doing fine
Walking on sunshine

That's right (oh baby)
Get there everybody (yeah)
(x3)

You're mine, you're mine
You're walking on sunshine
(And I got to) tell you that you doing fine
Walking on sunshine
Oh (And I got to) tell you that you're doing fine
Walking on sunshine
Oh

That's Right (x4)

I Love You


Take off your shoes
sit on the floor

I'll make us a coffee he'll keep you warm.
Remember the times we couldn't afford
Even the bare necessities
but we made it somehow.
And I love you
yes I love you.
Tell me do you love me
do you love me still.
They tried to keep me down
you made me strong
And I love you
yes I love you girl.
Tried to sell a tune
nobody would buy.
Hunger and frustration nearly made me die

Pressure when it takes you can drive you wild.
Baby
you've got the kind of love that really drives me wild.
And I love you
yes I love you. . . .
Don't say it
oh child

Don't suck your teeth on me
no
no
Baby

Don't play child
you know you made a man out of me.
Take off your shoes
sit on the floor
. . .
And I love you
yes I love you. . . .
They tried to keep me down
. . .

Do You Feel My Love


You left me with a problem
Now I know what it's all about
You took my heart and split it up
Now you know what it's all about

How do you feel my love?
Do you feel it as I walk away?
How do you feel my love?
Do you feel it as I walk away?

Who knows what kind of pity for
Excuse you from yourself
To justify the misery
That you put yourself within.

How do you feel my love? (Ay? My?...)
Do you feel it as I walk away?
How do you feel my love?
Do you feel it as I walk away?

Need to find myself
all that I've got left
Used up, ooh, I'm used up

Need to cry but still
got to show my will
Been used too much

How do you feel my love?
Oh, child, do you feel it as I walk away?
How do you feel my love?
Oh, oh, oh, child, do you feel it as I walk away?

Need to find myself
all that I've got left
Used up, ooh, I'm used up.

Need to cry but still
got to show my will
I've been used too much.

How do you feel my love?
Do you feel it as I walk away?
How do you feel my love?
Do you feel it as I walk away?