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Lyrics of Yellow Fever by Fela Kuti
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Different different fever na him dey
Different different fever na him dey
Different different fever na him dey
Different different fever na him dey
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Malaria fever nko? (He dey!)
Jaundice fever nko? (He dey!)
Hay fever nko? (He dey!)
Influenza fever nko? (He dey!)
Inflation fever nko? (He dey!)
Freedom fever nko? (He dey!)
Yellow fever nko? (He dey!)
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Na him dey bring the matter now he dey
Yellow fever nko? (He dey!)
Na him dey bring the matter now he dey
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I say tell them, make them hear (you say)
All fever na sickness (you say)
Original sickness (you say)
Hay fever na sickness (you say)
Original sickness (you say)
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Malaria na sickness (you say)
Original sickness (you say)
Jaundice na sickness (you say)
Original sickness (you say)
Influenza na sickness (you say)
verse
Original sickness (you say)
Inflation na sickness (you say)
Original sickness (you say)
Freedom na sickness (you say)
Original sickness (you say)
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Yellow fever nko? (You say)
Original and artificial, he dey
Yellow fever nko? (You say)
One more
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Original and artificial, he dey
Bom bom bom, tell me now
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Original catch you
Your eye go yellow
Your yansh go yellow
Your face go yellow
Your body go weak
I say but later if you no die inside
The yellow go fade away
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Artificial catch you
You be man or woman
Na you go catch am yourself
Na your money go do am for you
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You go yellow pass, yellow
You go catch moustache for face
You go get your double colour
Your yansh go black like coal
You self go think say you dey fine
Who say you fine?
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Na lie, you no fine at all
At all, na lie
My sister, who say you fine?
Na lie, you no fine at all
At all, na lie
chorus
Yellow fever
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
chorus
Yellow fever
Stupid thing
Yeye thing
Fucking thing
Ugly thing
Yellow fever
chorus
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever
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Now to the underground spiritual game
Underground where dey down for school
Over there for school, yes
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Where dey go say, "Teacher"
Oya!
Teacher
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Who steal my bleaching?
My precious bleaching?
I buy am for shopping
For forty naira
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How I go yellow? (Teacher)
How I go find out? (Teacher)
I go die o (teacher)
I go die o (teacher)
I go die o (teacher)
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According to complaint
Complaint must get answer
I beg please, help me help teacher
Oya, foolish
Oya!
Foolish
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Who steal your bleaching? (Foolish)
Your precious bleaching? (Foolish)
You buy am for shopping (foolish)
For forty naira (foolish)
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You self all yellow (foolish)
How you go find out? (Foolish)
Your face go yellow (foolish)
Your yansh go black (foolish)
Your moustache go show (foolish)
Your skin go scatter (foolish)
verse
You go die o (foolish)
You go die o (foolish)
You go die o (foolish)
You go die o (foolish)
chorus
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever
Stupid thing
Yeye thing
Fucking thing
Ugly thing
Yellow fever
chorus
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Writer(s): Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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