Thanks to Youtuber; YOUTUBEDOTCOM for the inspiration and clips. Decided to make a video for Chop and Clean Mouth, had to make a cover-art as well. Not my best work, but who cares. Enjoy!

Lyrics:
Oya o, let's go back to Ibadan again
Chorus: Shembele lotun, shembele losi, shembele
Ara Ibadan shoro le o
Ara Egba shoro le o.
Omo eko shoro le o
Chorus: Shembele lotun, shembele losi, shembele
Oya o
Anytime I sing a song
when I sing the African problems
E dey take 10 years to understand me
I want to say to you my people
Make you understand this one o
CHORUS: Quick quick
If you no understand am quick, the suffer go plenty more
So I beg you all o, make you understand this one o
CHORUS: quick, quick
Yoruba man o, you go dey say kia kia
Hausa man o, you go dey say masa masa
Igbo man o, you go dey say ngwa ngwa
Ashanti man o, you go dey say nfiem nfiem
Zulu man o, you go dey say pangisa pangisa
Swahili man o, you go dey say haraka haraka
Egun man o, you go dey say yaho yaho
Quick quick, haraka haraka, kia kia
Justice and lawyers dem read book well
Dem go university dem get book well
Dem be the intellectuals o
Dem get plenty sense for book well
Abi na so dem think o
CHORUS: Na so dem think o
Doctors and engineers na so dem think
Architects and Execu-thiefs na so dem think
Professors and businessmen na so dem think (x2)
Magistrate and perambulators na so dem think
Na dem go dey follow Government like goat
If government do something right now
CHORUS: Dem go say - Meeh sir
Dem go say Meeh sir like goat
If government do something e bad o
Meeh meeh, like goat
If government do thing e never good
Just to find something to chop
Just to find money to steal
Na dem go dey say dem get sense, ah, abi na so dem think o, yay!
CHORUS: Na so dem think o
Na so dem think as dem dey scatter Africa
Na so dem think as dem dey sell Africa
Na so dem think with dem privatizations
Na so dem think with dem commercialization
Na so dem think, yay yay, yay yay
Na so dem think as dem dey scatter Africa
Na so dem think, yay yay, yay yay, yay, yay, yay
Everybody say yeah yeah
See how they slap our face for Africa
CHORUS: Dem slap am pa
See how the slap our face for Africa
Balewa, he see dem, I repeat,
Balewa carry right side he give them
Balewa carry right side he give them pasa
Gowon, Obasanjo carry left side give them pasa (x2)
Shagari come give them our head (x2)
CHORUS: Dem knock am finish
Buhari, Idiagbon give them our yansh (x2)
CHORUS: Dem block am paso paso
Babangida come give them our neck (x3) I say,
CHORUS: Dem cut am fiam
But the one way go happen next,
Na coffin dem go put us o
Dem come go throw us inside sea
The sea wey be our colour- black sea
But - E no go happen
[CHORUS: E no go happen,
Shine dey, Africa must dey
Lai lai o, lai, lai o] x 4
Ohh, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay,
Everybody say yeah yeah,
Everybody say yeah yeah, thank you
Listen to me now, listen to me now
Balewa chop he own dem shoot am o
Na bye bye o di gbere o, then new style come come o
Yeparipa, yeparira, o, yay
I repeat, Balewa chop he own dem shoot am o,
Na bye bye o di gbere o, then new style come come o, Yeparipa, yeparira, o, yay
Gowon chop he own he clean mouth o, like nothing happen o
E find him way o, yay,
Muritala come he try small o, dem shoot am o, na bye-bye o di gbere o (x2)
Obasanjo chop him own, he clean mouth o, like nothing happen o, he find him way o (x2)
Somebody say, "Shagari nko? Dem arrest am" No o, dem jail am
Buhari come, Idiagbon come o, dem chop dem clean mout o, like nothing happen o, yay
Babangida come with new invention o, na computerized Maradona style o, I say .. (x2)
Babangida, (x2), chop him own, he wan clean mouth with NRC o
Na new chemical in place of soap o, and STP na dirty water to wash him mouth after o
I repeat, one more time, .... (x2)
Yeparipa, yeparipa, yeparipa
Murikin taba nagode a chukwutu di, CHORUS: ayo
Mukanyariya Mukanduri giya meshi, I no hear your ayo o, I'll start again, Are you ready again?
One more, okay: Mukanyariya Mukanduri giya meshi,
Burantashi durintaya giyamata. A chukwutu idi, a chukwutu furo, achukwutu furo
A chukwutu idan, achukwutu furo, e ban gbo bo, obo da. e ban gbobo o
A chukwutu idi, Achukwutu obo, gunrantashi, gurintaya
Now you all sing after me now, sing after me now, you understand now?
Anything wey I sing, you go sing am
Chop and clean mouth, na the new name of stealing
Chop and clean mouth, like say nothing don happen
I more time, chop and clean ... (x2)
Now together now, everybody
Chop and clean mouth, na the new name of stealing
Chop and clean mouth, like say nothing don happen (x2)
Murikin taba nagode a chukwutu di, CHORUS: ayo

[See how the naira e dey fall, if you no know naira na Nigerian money
E go dey fall, dey roll, dey crack, dey crash, when naira fall-
CHORUS: Many people fall/roll/bust/crack/crash/jam with am
Everybody say yeah yeah (x2)] (x2)
As for Ghana money, that one don disappear
As for Zaire money, that one don evaporate
As for Liberian money, that one don catch fire
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