Uploaded June 2010 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Track 5. Title track from the album 'The World Is A Ghetto'.
Written by War.
Howard Scott: Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
B.B. Dickerson: Bass, Percussion, Vocals
Lonnie Jordan: Organ, Piano, Timbales, Percussion, Vocals
Harold Brown: Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Papa Dee Allen: Conga, Bongos, Percussion, Vocals
Charles Miller: Clarinet, Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxes, Percussion, Vocals
Lee Oskar: Harmonica, Percussion, Vocal
Produced by Jerry Goldstein in Association with Lonnie Jordan & Howard Scott
Engineer: Chris Huston
♪♫ Walkin' down the street, smoggy-eyed
Looking at the sky, starry-eyed
Searchin' for the place, weary-eyed
Crying in the night, teary-eyed
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Wonder when I'll find paradise
Somewhere there's a home sweet and nice
Wonder if I'll find happiness
Never give it up now I guess
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
------ long instrumental break ------
There's no need to search anywhere
Happiness is here, have your share
If you know you're loved, be secure
Paradise is love to be sure
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
(The world is a ghetto) {21 times and fade} ♪♫
N.B. Audio blocked late Sept 2010 then block removed/rolled back 23rd Oct 2010
Update: Audio blocked again 4th Nov 2010
Update: Audio block removed/rolled back again 4th Nov 2011 !!
Update: Audio blocked again, 28th July 2015, this time the claimant is SME. Blocked in 242 countries
~ [Many thanks to the copyright owners WMG and/or EMI and/or SME for allowing this to be heard on YouTube (as when they do that is!?)] ~ ☺
Track 5. Title track from the album 'The World Is A Ghetto'.
Written by War.
Howard Scott: Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
B.B. Dickerson: Bass, Percussion, Vocals
Lonnie Jordan: Organ, Piano, Timbales, Percussion, Vocals
Harold Brown: Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Papa Dee Allen: Conga, Bongos, Percussion, Vocals
Charles Miller: Clarinet, Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxes, Percussion, Vocals
Lee Oskar: Harmonica, Percussion, Vocal
Produced by Jerry Goldstein in Association with Lonnie Jordan & Howard Scott
Engineer: Chris Huston
♪♫ Walkin' down the street, smoggy-eyed
Looking at the sky, starry-eyed
Searchin' for the place, weary-eyed
Crying in the night, teary-eyed
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Wonder when I'll find paradise
Somewhere there's a home sweet and nice
Wonder if I'll find happiness
Never give it up now I guess
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
------ long instrumental break ------
There's no need to search anywhere
Happiness is here, have your share
If you know you're loved, be secure
Paradise is love to be sure
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto
(The world is a ghetto) {21 times and fade} ♪♫
N.B. Audio blocked late Sept 2010 then block removed/rolled back 23rd Oct 2010
Update: Audio blocked again 4th Nov 2010
Update: Audio block removed/rolled back again 4th Nov 2011 !!
Update: Audio blocked again, 28th July 2015, this time the claimant is SME. Blocked in 242 countries
~ [Many thanks to the copyright owners WMG and/or EMI and/or SME for allowing this to be heard on YouTube (as when they do that is!?)] ~ ☺
![Burundi Black (Part 1) - Burundi Steiphenson Black [7 1971 issue]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N8ba0gwBmUU/mqdefault.jpg "Burundi Black (Part 1) - Burundi Steiphenson Black [7 1971 issue]
The original source of this tribal rhythm was a recording of 25 drummers of the Ingoma tribe, Burundi. The recording was included in an album, Musique du Burundi, issued by the French Ocora label in 1968. During the early 70s, a British pop musician named *Mike Steiphenson grafted an arrangement for guitars and keyboards onto the original recording from Burundi, and the result was Burundi Black, an album that sold more than 125,000 copies and made the British best-seller charts. ~ Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africaonyourstreet/cdreviews/
*Mike Steiphenson aka Michel Bernholc, was a French (not British) musician and arranger.
NOTE: (If Im not mistaken), this here is the A side of the original 7 release of the Steiphenson arrangement from 1971.
There was also a 12 Special Re-mix made, released in 1981.
However, there was not, to the best of my knowledge, a 10 Trench Foot Steppin Dub Mix released in 1917 ;-)
The visual is a loop of Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies. This zoom starts in the Fornax constellation and pushes through deeper and narrower telescopic fields to at last reach Hubbles Ultra Deep Field, where astronomers have identified 108 very distant galaxies. The zoom reveals the locations of the 108 galaxies, then it pushes farther into the field, showing a close up of three representative candidates.
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