Released as Youssou N'Dour/Peter Gabriel single, 1989 and featured on the Youssou N'Dour album "The Lion".
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We are shaking the tree...
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Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life
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Waiting your time, so much more than just a wife
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You don't have to do what your mother has done, she has done
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This is your life, this new life has begun
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It's your day - a woman's day
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It's your day - a woman's day
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Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave
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Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave
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Find your brothers and sisters
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Who can hear all the truth in what you say
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They can support you when you're on your way
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It's your day - a woman's day
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It's your day - a woman's day
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We are shaking the tree...
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There's nothing to gain when there's nothing to be lost
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There's nothing to gain if you stay behind and count the cost
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Make a decision that you can be who you can be, you can be
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Tasting the fruit, come to the liberly(?) tree
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It's your day - a woman's day
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It's your day - a woman's day
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Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you
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Changing your ways, more than any man can do
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Open your heart, show him the anger and pain, so you heal
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Maybe he's looking for his womanly side, make him feel
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You had to be so strong
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And you do nothing wrong, nothing wrong at all
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We're gonna to break it down
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We have to shake it down, shake it all around
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We are shaking the tree...
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Shakin' The Tree
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Peter Gabriel |