I saw the whiteman coming He's getting off his plane He gets in his big land-rover And heads from the mines Go, Rosemary I saw the whiteman coming He's coming to steal And he's coming to rape And he calls it business I saw the black man waiting He's ready to rob his brothers And to give away his sisters For a couple of US dollars I saw the black nurses wondering Yeah wondering why, why, why They keep sending all these white nurses To take away their jobs Then I saw Art and Tom coming They get off the train They're all geared up to record And they're totally insane I saw the white girls coming Yeah coming to get Oh what they can't get at home It's cheap it's fun And it don't last too long I saw the businessmen coming And cheating on their wives With underage girls Buzzing around their hives And I saw you coming back a year ago Oh won't you please, please tell me more All about your voyage All the things that you did And all the people you met Now I wanna know All the cars that you drove And all the girls you've been fooling around with And I saw you I saw you coming back A year ago