Kingston Town Lyrics

Lyric discussion by projekkt 

Cover art for Kingston Town lyrics by UB40

"When I am king" ... ..... Kingston Town has slavery embedded in it's history, with this in mind, I feel like Lord Creator is painting a picture of a slave finally freed and making his way to Kingston Town, which sounds like the place to be, a place where his dreams take him.

My Interpretation

Black people have done stuff besides being slaves for the last couple of centuries... Even besides complaining about it. Indeed apart from in certain countries, that really ought to get their culture together, slavery hasn't been an issue since a while after 1833.

This is just a song about any ordinary guy, who might be black, though there are lots of white Jamaicans, who longs for his hometown. People have been writing songs about that since the beginning.

Good point, but I think people in 1970 had better things on their minds than just ordinary guys.