Very sad folk song, all the best ones are, not really sure it's english I'd heard it used with dublin. But it's one of those old songs that was sung before being written down, so who knows the origins.

I leap over lies in a single pound
[who are you?]
The black prophet
One day I got struck by knowledge of self
They gave me super scientifical powers
Now I, run through the ghetto
Battling my arch nemesis Mr. Ignorance
He's been trying to take me out since the days of my youth
He feared this day would come
I'm hot on his trail
But sometimes he slips away because he has an army
They always give me trouble
mainly Hatred, Jealousy and Envy they attack me
They think they got me
But I use my super science and I twist all three
I see sparks over that building
They're shooting at me
I dip, do a back flip
Then hit em in the heart with sharp skilled book marks
Ignorance hates when I drop it
But no matta what he do
He can't stop the prophet.

[Yo prophet, yo prophet, come here real quick
Yo I just saw Ignorance down town
Let me put you on. Word, he down there buggin
He got them illing out, the shooting and everything..]

Let's continue the saga, mad, mad drama
I met this chick, she said she knew where Ignorance was at
I said where, she said downtown
He had babies having babies
And young niggas selling crack
I think the bitch is lying it's a set up
I can smell it, but Ignorance is runnig rampid
Aight baby show me the exact spot
Meet me at quick and skimo on the 3 on the dot
So I hops up on the A train, I'm being followed
My seventh sense senses danger
I turn around, it's Anger and he brought a mobb along
It's the same old song
Despair and Animosity got broke with the swiftness
I don't know what they think this is
I feel a sharp pain in my neck
Now I can't see on my hand
They hit me with the dart filled with the pork chops sim
I tried to hold on but before long I dropped
When I awoke I was locked in the barber's shop
Trapped in the barber's chair
Oh no, they're going to try and cut my hair
But that can't stop the prophet

[Yo prophet,
Ignorance is tired of you following him around
We about to put end in out right now.
Anamosity, Despair
Get him]

[Can't a damn thing stop me]

A few minutes passed by I hear a buzzin noise
It was that chick with some of Ignorances' boys
She said prophet we got you beat
By the way I'm Ignorance's wife, Deceit
But enough talk now for your hair cut
When the clippers touched my hair, they blew the fuck up
After the explosion there was no one left
Cause I know them mobb poison hair touch of death
My vision's still kinda blurry, but I see a clue
Ignorance is at the library
I hurry, with lightning speed like the flash
He's at the big one, on Grand, Army Plaz
When I get inside the doors shut and the lights go off
Damn another trap
I hear a hissing sound I smell a funny smell
I gasp, I can't breath
Ignorance is laughing at me
Waiting on my down fall,
But he can't stop the prophet

i think plead and its past tense are spelled the same. am i wrong?

oh yea, and fox news, grr, angry, yea the same old song and dance.

^ According to the youtube description, this is an old song but re-recorded with a different singer (Zema)..

After checking good old wiki, I found out the previous singer was Kelly Sundown Carpenter, and tracked down some of his singing. I'm pretty sure these are all him (but in the band 'Beyond Twilight' of which he was temporarily a member).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outworld_(band), [I can't get it to link properly]

(Kelly singing in a studio)
(Reasonable track, but audio only)
(Not so reasonable track but nevermind)

Kelly Carpenter is a much better singer (imo). That's the way it goes sometimes...

It's like I ate few too many old cartoons/movies and covers of old songs ..
and puked .. and then said wow look at this .. I made art!

Dude, this is a great song, and I think you're a great sifter. Seriously. However could you PLEASE do more with your tags beyond 'tacos rule', s'il vous plaît? You live in Quebec, n'est-ce pas? So I'm speaking your language, okay? Please? I appreciate the humor, mind you. I'm just trying to avoid possible dupes. Merci beaucoup en avance.
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And JAPR: How young do you have to be when you call an 8-yr-old song a "classic"? Damn kids!

>> ^darkrowan:
hehehe... Cabbits.... thats what this breeding will make, Cabbits.


Nah, it'll never work. There's that old song, "The genes of a Cat and a Rabbit JUST won't splice!"

It's just doomed to failure.

Thanks for the link and additional info, bamdrew. Copyright laws in my country are so vague they might as well not exist, but I'm interested in learning more about what other countries are doing...

So, what about music "sampling"? I see a lot of this in hip-hop, some to good effect and some bad, but are there copyright laws covering it? Would this have to adhere to the same guidelines as artists covering old songs?

This sort of cover where they take an old song from Leo Sayer, Steve Winwood etc and add some beats has been quite common over the last five years. In fact that reminds me of something I could post...

dude. they are paid to have fun. their special skill is to hide their true emotions and look "natural" on camera.

i kinda agree with you about porn being totally uninspiring, but you're sounding a bit naive about the chicks in this video.

Real girls on the bus are the hottest. ANYTHING which is filmed this professionally is fake.

*fake *fake *fake

and they ruined a good song by "updating" it badly, in a cynical move to guarantee sales they used an old song that has already been proven in the charts, then they put chicks in bikinis in the video, omg, this sucks.

Bring on higher taxes, regardless of the savings to come, from
the hobbled military... oh yeah, farhad, this is technically, not, a break with the rules, but slipped it into the sift like cocaine mixed in with cake flour-

But, it iiiss the first black man who may run for high office.....*Visions of spin, of
stepinfetchit and Armstrong, of the same old song and dance....

You must understand, this sifter has lost faith in politics as usual, in the pep rally mentality, the duality, of m"my side against your side"....The process needs a revamp, not the players...But...

Hope
Faith
Unification, with the collective heads out of asses, may do it....I admire your faith, theo47

How about 'Nostalgia'? Old songs, classic tv/film moments etc..

Wow! Not bad for a 15-year-old song and video. This song was the shining gem of a wonderfully relaxing album. Until I listened to it for the first time, I had never heard of open water being used as a percussive instrument for any melody - except for that "drop of water" sound that's sometimes mingled with sonar pings for an oceanic effect.

Speaking of water-like, the only other music that I can think of which reproduces the soothing water effect is Spencer Nilsen's soundtrack called Ecc
o: Songs of Time, based on his music for the video game series.

Appalachian, traditional bluegrass.

Many, many versions of this age-old song have been recorded. These are the most widely known lyrics, of course made popular by the movie. Here's a good rundown, if you're interested...

LOL! An ugly larva (all ladybug larves are ugly!) with a helpless aphid in her mouth! Here is a mugshot of her: http://www.cirrusimage.com/Beetles/Harmonia_larva_w_aphid.jpg ... Oh I noticed she has a little aphid on her back. Weird.

Love this old song.