Get down, get down   Get down, get down   Get down, get down   Get down, get down      Lift every voice and sing   Yeah, but we gon' lift every fist and swing   So save the Negro spiritual   It's 1992 and niggaz need a miracle      And no more song and dance   Like we shall overcome, and ain't got a chance   Y'all stuck on 'I have a dream'   Need to put the picket sign down and get on the team      Stand up and do somethin'   (Get down, get down)   Stop beggin' for a meal, 'cause everything is real   Nigga look at yourself, you in hell   Claimin' welfare, or should I say fare-well      Mr. Christian, you was too spooky   Now Bush wanna slave, and Russia wanna nuke me   And the most you can tell me is love thy enemy?   Stay off the Hennessey      Pops I want freedom, so hand me the nine   (Get down, get down)   You can pray for yours, but I'ma go get mine   Now how long has it been?   For a hundred and thirty-seven years, but neva again      Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again, neva again   Neva neva, neva again      God bless America but for what?   How 'bout God damn America, the slut, yeah   Now I can name that tune   'Cause the land of the free is sellin' Negroes at noon      But how soon we forget   Mention the holocaust, niggaz have a fit   Sorry it's real but I'm fresh out of tears   'Cause lynch that nigga's still ringin' in my ears      I want freedom, justice, equality, Islam   (Get down, get down)   So it's hard to keep calm   When I'm accused of bein' racist for lovin' my people first   Now they wanna put me in a hearse      But black people never made white slaves   And we was too lovin' to put Jews in a oven   But the pilgrims wasn't so friendly then   And by the way, I never ate a Indian      So who's the real savage?   (Get down, get down)   Six feet tall on the average   Mark the number of the goddamn beast   To the East my brother to the East say neva again      Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again, neva again      Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again   Neva neva, neva again, neva again      Oh, say can y'all see?   It's the home of the slave, land of the never free   America me, the so called Negro   With another verse, so here we go      As long as y'all been givin' me hell   (Get down, get down)   No wonder there's a crack in the Liberty Bell   To tell on America the beautiful   The bitch need a face lift, for this race myth      And now for you to pull a caper, kidnap rape her   The penalty is death   'Cause we ain't forgave or forgot   Blacks bein' murdered, tortured and shot      Six hundred million, one eighty sevens   It's bringin' wrath down from the heavens   So let my people go Pharoahe, the arrow   Is point at your dome, and if we don't make it home      Cancel Christmas   Like E P M D we got some unfinished business   From way back, payback for your sin   (Get down, get down)   So paleskin', tell a friend, neva again      Neva neva, neva again   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again   (Get down, get down)   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again, neva again   (Get down, get down)      Neva neva, neva again   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again, neva again   (Get down, get down)      Neva neva, neva again   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again, neva again   (Get down, get down)      Neva neva, neva again, neva again   (Get down, get down)   Neva neva, neva again, neva again   (Get down, get down)