When We Were Kings
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# When I first met you, baby
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# Baby, you was just sweet sixteen
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# Just off your homeland, baby
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# Oh, the sweetest thing
I'd ever seen #

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The music I listen to, in most white
people's houses, I don't hear this,

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because your culture wouldn't...
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Your woman doesn't leave you
and slip away like our women,

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because you had money
to keep your woman.

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Your songs are like, "And the train
comes around that mountain,

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"In the Folsom Prison,
in the Folsom Prison".

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You know, "Y'all come, y'all come."
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Chinese got diddly music,
"Pleen ting tang tong ting."

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I don't want that and he understands.
Everybody's got their culture.

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So we're not saying we hate you
or we're never talking to you again

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and doing business, we don't do that.
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We're saying
that we want to be independent.

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# Baby, I wonder
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# Yes, I wonder
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# Baby, I wonder
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# Oh, I wonder what in the world
is gonna happen to me #

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(Plimpton) 'The great place
to visit in Kinshasa

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'was a compound
about 20 miles up the Congo.

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'A place called Enseli,
a presidential palace.

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'That was where we saw Foreman,
who seemed incredible.'

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I'd seen him fight before,
I saw him destroy Frazier

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and the thing I always remembered
was that the beaten fighter,


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