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Title: How To Raise A Blade
Artist: Blade
Label: 691 Influential
Year: 1993
Album: The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength
Cat #: Blade 1207

Last Modified: 13th April 2004
Transcribed by: Flat 4
Contact: flat4@ukhh.com
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Blade:
How to raise a Blade, simple
First you get a ten year old kid and you send him to a school
Keep him in the back of the class with a pen and a pad
And watch him go mad
Drummin' on the tables writin' lyrics
And when the teacher tries to keep him quiet he don't hear it
Teacher teachin', preacher preachin'
The miniture Blade you ain't reachin'
So I go swing the pendulum, it's what I'm bringin' 'em
I'm an mc so I ain't singin' 'em
One day he'll be at the Trocadero
Lookin' for the hero, nah that's a zero
Eat kebabs with the red hot chilli pepper
Drink a pepsi then he got to seperate
The good from the bad
Give him somethin' that he ain't never had
A microphone, stick it in the amp
Treat him like a tramp, build him like a heavyweight champ
Exercisin', socializin'
Vocalizin', forever risin'
This is how he should be brought up
And the troubles of the world he never should be caught up in
Put the rubbish in the bin
Strictly strength you'll be witnessin'
Never the kid perpetratin' to fraud
Always believin' there's a God and respectin'
Himself and those that respect him
And never doin' the things that they expect him
Well check it.

(18thJuly 1992)