Ah, campus
Where I go start, where I go start, where I go start o
The thing my eye dey see for campus
I say, where I go start, ah
Where I go start o, the thing my eye dey see for campus
When I finish secondary, I do examination for higher education
Poly or university, them must catch me somewhere, make I get certificate
When result come out, I get 194
I dey happy, I dey happy say I go enter
But when I see my friends, awon boys in the hood
Awon hooligans wey them no dey come class at all o
Them dey fire two hundred and something
Ah awon boysi awon ti rodu ase won ti gbegun wole
If not be say them cancel English I for no get chance rara
Look look look them awon expo jambites them plenty for campus
Ulo lu lo lu lolo lu lo lu le ile, ulo lu lo lu lolo eeeo (horns)

Ah, campus
How man go learn with all the condition not to talk of side attraction
To chop o, 0-1-0 na the system
Recommended book if it dey at all o it pass my papa salary
Ah, Chemistry student, he never see chemical o, not to talk of titration
Ah, youth corper wey he just get let my people go degree come out o
Na him dey teach nuclear physics
Ahh all the professor them done vex come out, some go for Saudi
The one wey he no go, he done frustrate o, he dey sleep for female hostel akata
Me and my lecturer we not dey talk again o, ah, because of Aduke
Haba, tell me tell me tell me how I go pass
How I go learn the thing my eye dey see for campus eeeo (horns x2)

Sara (drum break/horns)
Campus (drum break)

Ah, campus
Living condition, awon squatters, them pass landlord for room
Do you know the meaning of dirty, you can never know, until you reach our toilet
You must carry cigar to neutralise the smell o, cough, ekolo gbeja mi
If you value your yansh you no go sit down for seat, ahh aja nloso
And if we complain peren them go say na riot, kiakia them done close campus
Book boku for library, but all of them 1970 edition
Tell me tell me how poly and university not go dey produce ogbologbo graduate
How the leaders of tommorrow go represent Nigeria for international negotiation
When their counterparts for yonder them they go Harvard, Yale, and Stanford eh o (horns)

Da ra ra da ra

No education no knowledge
No knowledge no understanding
No understanding no freedom
Nno freedom no future, I say
Education na freedom
Education, yes education na freedom

Tell them make them hear, education, information na knowledge
Uhmmmm, quota system, educationally disadvantaged, catchment area
Ah, Lagbaja where your state of origin
All them categorisation for admission na nonsense
Ah, oh ehh, no book for library
No equipment for lab
No money for research
No lecturer for campus, kilode

Aha lagbaja mekun e, farabale

Mekun wetin, mekun wetin, I beg leave me jo
Rioting and demonstration
Open today, close tomorrow
Leaders of tommorrow
You say make I mekun, make I mekun wetin
Ah, mekun ko mekun ni
Na the same, na the same
Na the same for secondary
Na the same for primary
Oh oh oh ahh, tell them make them hear
Tell them make them hear
Ulolo ololo ulolo eh ulolo o, eh o eh o
Tell them make them hear
Education bring knowledge
Knowledge bring understanding
Understanding bring freedom
Freedom bring future
Ahhh ajibitiki, ajibitiki, wuoo
Education na future
Education na freedom all right one more time
Education na freedom
Ajubulebule bo lu bi le bo le

© Lagbaja