Up With Hope (down With Dope) Lyrics - Lucky 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 (x2) 

Up with hope, down with dope (x3) 

We cannot stand aside and look 

While the nation is going down the drain. 

We really, really cannot stand aside and look while the nation is going down the drain 

Oh Yo 

I am telling you now 

Cocaine, no good for you 

Liquor, no good for you 

You go sniffling them glue 

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 (x2) 

Is going down the drain 

Oh yo yo yo 

Chorus till fade: 

Up with hope, down with dope