Black James Dean Lyrics by Pigeon
I am the black gypsy
I am the black James Dean
Put me on your magazine
I am the black gypsy
I am the black James Dean
Put me on your TV screen
Toh won mou hiffeh tacoï (Today we are not sleeping in the city)
Nun allah (I swear to god)
Wonha arrabafe neh alloh wun m’benben nuarabama kinehe’ (We are doing like our ancestors used to do)
Wongi souï nantongoma wonsiga han jiakarta (We’re going to take this horse and go up to Jakarta)
Doin doin han macka (Slowly slowly up to Mecca)
Nimah wunssa sansisima yirregbeteneh (Next year we’re guna farm somewhere)
Wonna wounsadera falabeh worry billy bounma beh (Let us put our bed under this tree)
Tinah soubahe’mah won mahn tah gbeteh sagatta (Tomorrow morning we’ll go to another country)
We wuna do like our ancestors
We wuna travel like our ancestors
We wuna step in their footsteps
So please don’t stop us doing our culture
I am a traveller
I am a traveller
Traveling willy nilly
Live life my life again
Hey James, where’s my horse?
Free us to travel willy nilly!
I am the black gypsy
I am the black James Dean
And I don’t know what it means
All my ancestors was travellers
All my ancestors was travellers
I am black gypsy and I’m proud of it