Up with Hope (Down with Dope)

Up with Hope (Down with Dope) - Lucky Dube

Lyrics by：Lucky Philip Dube

Composed by：Lucky Philip Dube

I have know this preacherman

For a long time he was a good man

I have known this judge

For a long time he was a good man

I have known this teacher

For a long time he was a good man too

But because of the drugs

They've been taking secretly

Them are in loony houses today

We cannot stand aside and look

While the nation is going

Down the drain

We cannot stand aside and look

While the nation is going

Down the drain I say

Up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

Up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

I'm telling you now

Up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

We cannot stand aside and look

While the nation is going

Down the drain

We really really cannot

Stand aside and look

The nation is going down the drain

Oh yo

I am telling you now

Cocaine cocaine

No good for you

No good for you

Liquor liquor

No good for you

No good for you

You go sniffling them glue

No good for you

No good for you

They give it to you and say

It's the sense of knowledge

But I known I've been around

For a while

I cannot stand aside

And look while the nation

Is going down the drain

I say I cannot stand aside

And look while the nation

Is going down the drain

Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo

Up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

Up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

I see up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

Up with hope

Up with hope

Down with dope

Down with dope

Up with hope

Up with hope