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The other day reading Drum magazine

I’ll tell you some of the things I seen

The other day reading Drum magazine

I’ll tell you some of the things I seen

Advertisements for special cream in every section

Give you a soft and pale complexion

Make your black skin lighter creamier and whiter

But when I look in the Star what do I find

But advertisements of a different kind

Because it seems that the white people have a notion

To make them selves black with the Sun Tan Lotion

Tell me, tell me, tell me why I want to know the fact

Why all the black people want to go

white and the white people want to go black.

Turning the pages of Zonk I see

A special tonic, which guarantee

Turning the pages of Zonk I see

A special tonic, which guarantee

To make your curly hair straight

And bring you success on every date

Misfortune in love is attributed there

To having such coal black curly hair

But when I pass by the Rosebank Beauty Parlour

I see the women sitting there hour after hour

With a great big thing on their head

trying to make their straight hair curly instead

Ain’t it ridiculous!

Tell me, tell me, tell me why I want to know the fact

Why all the black people want to go

white and the white people want to go black.

Now the other day the native girl she say to me

Au! Master, your madam she is very skinny

She say she also is much too thin

She must have some fattening vitamin

She say that it’s a fact that

All the men like her bottom to be fat

But in the northern suburbs the women are used

To living on lettuce and orange juice

To be slim is their preoccupation

My god, what a crazy nation — this is so

Tell me, tell me, tell me why I want to know the fact

Why all the black people want to go

white and the white people want to go black.

I have a simple remedy

For all this frustrated energy

I have a simple remedy

For all this frustrated energy

If you blacks have too much of this pigment stuff

And the white people say you’ve not got enough

Don’t waste your time buying creams and jellies

Trying to change the colour of your bellies

but follow the example of my brother

He married a black girl, they love each other

And she gives him a little bit of black in the night

And he gives her a little bit of white

That’s the solution!

Now I, now I, I know why I can tell you the fact

Why all the black people want to go

white and the white people want to go black.

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