Gyasi Went Home

Where do you come from boy, could you come anywhere? You come from country where water flows free to the sea I heard the English said, you got the best of it When Raleigh washed up and found solid gold in his hands There was a woman who gave all her pearls, The ocean rolling, rolled them from the new world There was a hill coolie, and a transatlantic slave, There came a day when they broke free of their chains, Now in country tempers run hot like Caribbean sun, Said Gyasi when he went home