(Ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!)
See them fighting for power (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!),
Trying to belittle our integrity now.
They say what we know
Is just what they teach us;
Through political strategy (shoo-be, doo-wa);
They keep us hungry (shoobe, doo-wa),
Ambush in the night,
All guns aiming at me;
Ooh-wee, ooh-wee. Ooh-wa-ooh!
(Ooh-wee) Ooh-wee, ooh-wee (ooh-wa), Ooh-wa!
Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us;
Through the powers of the Most-High (shoobe, doo-wa),
We keep on surfacin' (shoobe, doo-wa);