Punches thrown for man and country
Punches gotten for man and woman
What they did we did in Amistad
Yes… punches… for women and children
Take it so… for man and country
What a way for fettered friendships
Given or thrown for man and country
Taken or laid by hands in Amistad
Redundant aches for man and country
You and I… amid star judges forever
Sails mounted on the Atlantic Ocean
Are a famished embodiment
Of love and hate in Amistad
Souls neither blue nor white
Are sailing... sailing… sailing...
Yet they come from careless neglect
Sons and daughters of Chiefs and Queens
With no names from more names in Amistad
So I salute with enthusiasm
My siblings who sail on the seas
Guilty punches thrown by Malice
Sengbe Pieh is a better name
And a Monarch gave birth to Amistad
Sengbe whose blood knows how to spell NO
With echoes on land and sea
And what he did I truly did
I got back my soul from punches
Amistad Friendship Amistad
Blasts many horns for many ears
That the children may hear and live
But from what you say you have not heard
From what you do you have not heard
From what you see there is no Amistad
So Amistad horns will keep blasting
For those of us that have not heard
Amistad! Friendship! Amistad! Friendship! Amistad! Friendship! Amistad!
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