Lyrics

Chorus
My country’s not
My country’s not
My country’s not for sale
My country’s not
My country’s not
My country’s not for sale

V1
Take your palace Li-li, li-li!”
Take your money Li-li, li-li!”
Take your bribery Li-li, li-li!”
Take your corruption Li-li, li-li!”
Think you can cajole . .…ooh
His warriors responded with their traditional war cry, “Li-li, li-li!”
in the responses
Me a man of integrity ..ooh
I’ve left my homeland ..ooh
To end your brutality “Li-li, li-li!” Ooh

Chorus
My country’s not
My country’s not
My country’s not for sale
My country’s not
My country’s not
My country’s not for sale

Keys hammond riff

V2
Violent obsessor
Who’s taken my sovereignty
An evil transgressor
Who’s seized Abyssinia
Our country ’s name is Ethiopia
And soon the day will come
In the kingdom of god
The just will surely reign 
To end this brutality
“We shall take the enemy’s weapons and make him return by the way he came,”

Chorus
My country’s not
My country’s not
My country’s not for sale

M8
Ethiopia
is not defeated ..
Ethiopia
our country’s not is not defeated
It will carry on its fight
To the last man
The lands been conquered
Fight
But not its people
Chorus
My country’s not ..not its people
My country’s not ..not its people
My country’s not for sale
My country’s not ..not its people
My country’s not ..not its people
My country’s not for sale

Sax and keys

fight fascism tyranny

Keys hammond riff and sax outro
“Soldiers! Better to die free than to live as slaves.
Be cunning. Be savage!
Fight the nomad war--
Your emperor will be in your midst!”