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Play it Cool

from Ride Again by Skamanians

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This is our "protest song" if you like. It speaks about the injustices of the ever increasing gap in inequality between the rich and poor, about the way the world is being taken over by private and corporate interests. Putting wealth and profit before the rights and needs of humankind and the ecosystem.

The first lines are taken from Langston Hughes "Motto"

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I play it cool
I dig all jive
That's the reason
I stay alive
My motto
As I live and learn
Is to dig and be dug in return

Its just a fool
Who complains about life
Makes excuses
and thrives on strife
His motto
and he’ll never learn
Is seed pain and get pain in return

And for the people,
The man on the street
The ones with nothin’
No food to eat
What’s their motto
as they strive to survive
Do what they have to & stay alive?

Because it’s big money big oil
They’re the new world order
You think they’re the ones who are gonna do what they aught’a
With Politicians, superstitions fuckin up the media
Do you really believe the bullshit that they’re feedin ya?

So try to unite we’ve got to put up a fight
Against the forces that are bleeding us
When push comes to shove, it’s the people who love that survive –
Play It Cool

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from Ride Again, released July 22, 2014
Words and Music - Gavin Hackett
1st stanza - the Motto by Langston Hughes.

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Skamanians Perpignan, France

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When 8 musicians, passionate about 1960s Jamaican ska decided to recreate those sounds together the story began and they haven’t looked back since.
In the last 3 years the band have played over 150 concerts and appeared at some of the biggest Reggae, Ska and Jazz festivals in Europe alongside many of their heros; the Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, U Roy, Black Uhuru….

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