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Track: Slave
Artist: Lucky Dube
Album: Slave

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Name: Lucky Dube
Spotify Genres: reggae, roots reggae, ragga, lovers rock
Followers: 1,701,991
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Biography

Born on the 3rd of August in 1964 in a small town near Ermelo and schooled in Afrikaans, Lucky Dube was South Africa's premier and internationally-renowned king of reggae. Was killed by robbers who attempted to hijack his car in Johannesburg on the 18th of October 2007. Originally performing and recording in an mbaqanga band (traditional Zulu music) called [b]The Love Brothers[/b] with his cousin [a=Richard Siluma] while still in school, his first full reggae album, "Rastas Never Die", was released in 1984 - much to the chagrin of the apartheid government. It was promptly banned. His subsequent (reggae) releases saw him reach unsurpassed success within the country as well as abroad.

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Release: Lucky Dube - Slave
Year: 1988
Genres: Reggae
Styles: Roots Reggae, Reggae-Pop

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LYRICS

Ministers of religion
have visited me many times
to talk about it
They say to me
I gotta leave it I gotta leave it
It's a bad habit
for a man
But when I try to leave it
my friends keep telling me
I'm a fool amongst fools

Chorus:
Now I'm a slave, a slave
I'm a slave
I'm a liquor slave
I'm a slave, a slave, slave
I'm a slave
Just a liquor slave

I have lost my dignity
I had before trying
to please everybody
Some say to me
yo yo
I look better when I'm drunk
Some say no no no
I look bad you know
Sometimes I cry
I cry but my crying
never helps me none

Chorus:
'Cos now I am a slave, a slave
I'm a slave
I'm just a liquor slave
I am a slave, a prisoner
I'm a slave
Just a liquor slave

Every night when I'm
coming back home
My wife gets worried
'cos she knows
Shes got double trouble
coming home
Sometimes I cry
I cry lord I cry
But my crying
never helps me

Chorus: (till fade)