Biography:
Lucky Dube, ? 3 Aug 1964 in Eastern Transvaal, South Africa; ? 18 Oct 2007 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg Gauteng (murdered), was South Africa's top reggae artist. He started with local popular music as mbaqanga. He switched to reggae in 1983. He was by then Rastafarian. He played roots reggae, but also love songs like 'I've Got You Babe'. His compilation album Serious Reggae Business 1996 entitled him "Best Selling African Recording Artist" at World Music Awards and "International Artist of the Year" at the Ghana Music Awards.
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Intro:
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Ministers of religion
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have visited me many times to talk about it
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They say to me.. I gotta leave it
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I gotta leave it.. It's a bad habit for a man
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But when I try, to leave it
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my friends keep telling me.. I'm a fool amongst fools
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Now I'm a slave, a slave
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I'm a slave.. I'm a liquor slave
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I'm a slave, a slave
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I'm a slave.. Just a liquor slave
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I have lost my dignity I had before
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trying to please everybody
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Some say to me yo yo I look better when I'm drunk
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Some say no no no I look bad you know
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Sometimes I cry.. I cry
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but my crying never helps me none 'Cos now
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I am a slave, a slave
I'm a slave
I'm just a liquor slave
I am a slave, a prisoner
I'm a slave
Just a liquor slave
Every night when I'm
coming back home
My wife gets worried
'cos she knows
Shes got double trouble
coming home
Sometimes I cry
I cry lord I cry
But my crying
never helps me
Chorus: (till fade)
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Bb F
Ministers of religion
Gm D# Bb F
have visited me many times to talk about it
Bb F
They say to me.. I gotta leave it
Gm D# Bb F
I gotta leave it.. It's a bad habit for a man
Bb F
But when I try, to leave it
Gm D# Bb F
my friends keep telling me.. I'm a fool amongst fools
Chorus:
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Now I'm a slave, a slave
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I'm a slave.. I'm a liquor slave
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I'm a slave, a slave
Gm D# Bb F
I'm a slave.. Just a liquor slave
Bb F
I have lost my dignity I had before
Gm D# Bb F
trying to please everybody
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Some say to me yo yo I look better when I'm drunk
Gm D# Bb F
Some say no no no I look bad you know
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Sometimes I cry.. I cry
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but my crying never helps me none 'Cos now
Chorus:
I am a slave, a slave
I'm a slave
I'm just a liquor slave
I am a slave, a prisoner
I'm a slave
Just a liquor slave
Every night when I'm
coming back home
My wife gets worried
'cos she knows
Shes got double trouble
coming home
Sometimes I cry
I cry lord I cry
But my crying
never helps me
Chorus: (till fade)
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