Brown Town
(Words and music by Bosko & Honey)
Brown Town
Brown Town
All my life and almost every day
So many people they come to me and say:
Hey mister, where do you come from?
Hey brother, where are you from?
And I’m thinking
Do you mean where I was born
Or where I live or if I’m from another country?
Are you asking where my family’s from?
I could tell you but it might take too long
Do you think I don’t belong?
Or do you like my skin and wonder where the brown’s from?
Come on down
To Brown Town
Let’s get down
To Brown Town
When I was young this question made me frown
But now I’ve grown to really, really, really, really like my brown
And these days when someone asks of me: Where are you from?
I don’t fool around and I say that I’m from Brown Town
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Come on down
To Brown Town
Let’s get down
To Brown Town
But now I know you don’t mean me any harm
And you just wondering where my melanin is from
But did you know, just incidentally,
That we’ll all be brown in the future? Just you wait and see
Do you mean where I was born
Or where I live or if I’m from another country?
Are you asking where my family’s from?
I could tell you but it might take too long
Do you think I don’t belong?
Or do you like my skin and wonder where the brown’s from?
Come on down
To Brown Town
Let’s get down
To Brown Town
The future’s all brown
In Brown Town
I get my brown
From Brown Town