400 years (400 years, 400 years. Wo-o-o-o)
And it's the same, the same (wo-o-o-o) philosophy
I've said it's four hundred years
(400 years, 400 years. Wo-o-o-o, wo-o-o-o)
Look, how long (wo-o-o-o)
And the people they (wo-o-o-o) still can't see.
Why do they fight against the poor youth of today?
And without these youths, they would be gone
All gone astray

Come on, let's make a move
(make a move, make a move. Wo-o-o-o, wo-o-o-o)
I can (wo-o-o-o) see time (wo-o-o-o), time has come,
And if-a fools don't see
(fools don't see, fools don't see. Wo-o-o-o)
I can't save the youth,
The youth (wo-o-o-o) is gonna be strong.
So, won't you come with me,
I'll take you to a land of liberty
Where we can live, live a good, good life
And be free.

Look how long: 400 years, (400 years, 400 years),
Way too long! (wo-o-o-o)
That's the reason my people (wo-o-o-o), my people can't see.
Said, it's four hundred long years, (400 years, 400 years. Wo-o-o-o)
Give me patience (wo-o-o-o), same philosophy.

It's been 400 years, (400 years, 400 years)
Wait so long! (wo-o-o-o, wo-o-o-o.)
How long? 400 long, long years.

All twinklin' lee
Can't see the right rose when the streams abate
The old slave men might grind slow
But it grinds fine, yeah

African herbsman, why linger on?
Just concentrate, 'cause heaven lives on
Greet-I-eth slave men will look with a scorn
With a transplanted heart (yes, how quick they had to part)
(... how quick they had to part)

The remembrance of today
Is the sad feelin' of tomorrow
(... how quick ...) Oh (... part), oh yeah

African herbsman, seize your time
I'm takin' illusion on the edge of my mind
I'm takin' losers down thru my life
Down thru my life, yeah (yes, how quick they had to part)
(... how quick they had to part)

Dideh part, yes, they part
In remembrance of today
(... how quick they had to part)

African herbsman, why linger on?
Just concentrate, 'cause your heaven lives on
Greet-I-eth slave men will look with a scorn
With a transplanted heart, yes, how (... quick they have to part)
(... how quick they have to part)

In remembrance of today
Brings sad feelings of tomorrow
(Yes, how quick they have to ...) Lead me on, oh, Lord, I pray to you

(African herbsman) (African herbsman)
African, African herbsman ...

Africa, Unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our father's land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before GOD and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man

Africa, unite 'cause the children wanna come home
Africa, unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our father's land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before GOD and man
To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah

As it's been said already let it be done
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man

So, Africa, unite, Africa, unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it's later than you think

Unite for the benefit of your children
Unite for it's later than you think
Africa awaits its creators, Africa awaiting its creators
Africa, you're my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the Africans abroad, unite for the Africans a yard
Africa, Unite

Arriba

See them fighting for power
But they know not the hour
So they bribing with
Their guns, spare-parts and money
Trying to belittle our integrity
They say what we know
Is just what they teach us
Thru political strategy
They keep us hungry
When you gonna get some food
Your brother got to be your enemy

Ambush in the night
All guns aiming at me
Ambush in the night
They opened fire on me
Ambush in the night
Protected by His Majesty

See them fighting for power
But they know not the hour
So they bribing
With their guns, spare-parts and money
Trying to belittle our integrity
Well what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it
And they just could not touch us
Thru the powers of the most high
We keep on surfacing
Thru the powers of the most high
We keep on surviving

Ambush in the night
Planned by society
Ambush in the night
They are trying to conquer me
Ambush in the night
Anything money can bring
Ambush in the night
Planned by society
Ambush in the night

Arriba

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Everybody now
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Everytime I, feel the sprit
Oh deep in my heart, I will pray, I will pray
Everytime I feel the spirit
Oh deep in my heart, I just want to pray
And everybody now
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Everybody now
Amen, [talking with the fisherman]
Amen, [down by the seashore]
Amen, Amen, Amen, one more time.
Amen, [talking with the fisherman]
Amen, [talking with the fisherman]
Amen, Amen, Amen

This is all in one
And one in all
So swing it
Let's have a ball

Bend down low
Let me tell you what I know now
Bend down low
Let me tell you what I know [what I know, what I know]

Long time we no have no nice time
Do you-do-you-do-ya think about that
Long, long, long, long time we no have no nice time
Do you-do-you-do-ya think about that [ooo]

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel alright
One love [hear my plea] one heart
Give thanks and praise to the Lord
And I'll feel alright

Simmer down
You licken too hot so
Simmer down
Soon you'll get dropped so
Simmer down
Can you hear what I say

After he, brakes your heart
Then you'll be sad, so sad
And then your teardrops start
[I say you'll] Then you'll know how
It hurts to be alone

Oh, what a feeling [what a feeling] to be blue
Oh what a feeling, oh what a feeling
[oh what a feeling to be blue]
Have you ever had a lonesome feeling

This one goes to love and affection
This one goes to love and affection
This one goes to love and affection

[uh, uh, uh, uh. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Feel]
Feel them spirit [uh, uh, uh, uh]
I'm gonna put it on
Feel them spirit [you hear that]
I'm gonna put it on

Yes my friend, he rules the streets again
Yes my friend, he set me free again

[uh, uh, uh, uh. Uh, uh, uh, uh]
I'm gonna put it on [uh. uh]
I'm gonna put it on [uh] Feel [I'm gonna]
Feel alright now

Arriba

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be, if you don't know
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity
Talking about my freedom
People freedom and liberty

Yeah, we've been trodding on
The winepress much too long
Rebel, Rebel
We've been trodding on the 
Winepress much too long, Rebel

Babylon System is the Vampire
Sucking the children day by day
Me say the Babylon System is the Vampire
Sucking the blood of the sufferers
Building church and university
Deceiving the people continually
Me say them graduating thieves and murderers 
Look out now
Sucking the blood of the sufferers

Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth right now
Come on and tell the children the truth
(repeat)

'Cause we've been trodding on
The winepress much too long
Got to Rebel, Got to Rebel Now

We've been taken for granted
Much too long, Rebel
(repeat)

From the very day we left the shores
Of our father's land
We've been trampled on, oh now
Now we know everything we got to rebel
Somebody got to pay for the work
We've done, Rebel

You a go tired fe see me face
Can't get me out of the race
Oh man you said I'm in your place
And then you draw bad card
A make you draw bad card
And then you draw bad card

Propaganda spreading over my name
Say you want to bring another life to shame
Oh man you just playing a game
And then you draw bad card, draw bad card
A make you draw bad card, draw bad card
A make you draw bad card

I want to disturb my neighbour
Cause I'm feeling so right
I want to turn up my disco
Blow them to full watts tonight
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style

Cause we guarding the palace so majestic
Guarding the palace so realistic
Them a go tired fe see we face, oh yeah
Me say them can't get we out of the race
Oh man it's just a big disgrace

The way you draw bad card, draw bad card
The way you make wrong moves, make wrong moves
The way you draw bad card, draw bad card
A make you draw bad card, draw bad card
A make you draw bad card
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style

Bend down low, let me tell you what I know now,
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know.
Oh, fisherman row to reap what you sow now,
Oh, tell you all I know (oo-oh!),
You've got to let me go now (oo-oh!),
And all you've got to do,
(Bend down low) oh yeah, let me tell you what I know,
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know, oh yeah!

You keep on knockin', but you can't come in.
I get to understand you been livin' in sin,
But if you love me, woman, walk right in.
I've got a notch for your safety-pin,
But bend down low.

Keep on knockin', but you can't come in.
I get to understand you been livin' in sin,
But walk right in, woman, sit right down.
I will keep on lovin' you, I play the clown.
But bend down low, baby, let me tell you what I know,
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know, yeah!
Let me tell you, baby, let me tell ya,
Knock on, babe, just won't let ya in!
You been livin' in sin, knock on!

Whoa-a Natty congo
A dreadlock congo I
Whoa-a Natty congo
A blackman redemption

Woe-yo yee, ye, a blackman redemption woe yoe,
No need, no need to get jumpy
No need, and a no need to get bumpy
And a no need, and a no need to get bumpy
No need, need, need to get jumpy

Youth and youth agree to, cool runnings
Can you dig it, cool runnings yeah, one more time
A beg ya, cool runnings, can you stop it
Cool runnings, spread out, spread out, spread out
Spread out, look out

Tell you about the blackman redemption
Can you dig it, oh yeah
A blackman redemption, can you stop it
Oh! no, oh! no, oh! no

Coming from the root of King David
Through the line of Solomon
His Imperial Majesty is the Power of Authority
Spread out, spread out, spread out, spread out
Spread out, spread out

No need, no need, no need to get jumpy
And a no need, and a no need to walk away

Let me tell bout ya
Cool runnings, can you dig it, cool runnings
It's one more time we want it
Cool runnings, cool runnings, spread out
Spread out, spread out, spread out, spread out

It's just a blackman redemption
Can you dig it, woe-yoe
Blackman redemption, can you stop it, oh! no oh! no

Ooh-ooh
Old Mr. Joe, he build a house away
On top of some hill
Old Mr. Joe knew he had to go, so he
He got right down and wrote bank will
He say now, here's to mother hen
And her chicken, Lord have mercy now
Master, will you take a roll in the mud
Like you know you should?
The old barnyard, the old barnyard
Birds and the chick, ooh-wee
Who's got to watch out for brother mongoose
With his top hap and walking-stick?

It's just the poor's brain washing
(Poor's ...) They told me a long time ago,
It's just the poor's brain washing, ooh-wee
(Poor's brain washing) Now look at a thing like this

Cinderella and her long lost fellow
In the midnight hour, she lost her silver slipper
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
While Jack and Jill had themselves a fall

It's just the poor's (... brain washing)
And I don't need it no longer (... washing)
It's just the poor's brain washing
Coming through to a poor man's child, ooh-wee, look at this

Little Miss Muffet she sat on a tuffet
While Little Red Riding Hood delivered her grandmom's food
Ooh-wee ooh-wee
Ooh-wee, look at one more thing like this
The cow jumping over the moon
While the dish got jealous, he grabbed the handy spoon

It's just the poor's brain washing
And I don't need it no longer, I don't want it no longer
I don't need it no longer (...washing)
And I don't care for no more brain washing (... washing) ...
It isn't good for my soul...

You're only acting like
You are somebody
But I don't love to say
You're not nobody
Don't exhaust our painted face, girl
'Cause underneath that face
You're just have disgrace

And you're just a brandnew second hand
You'll make no one fool
You're just a brand new second hand

I only confess you
You're brand new second hand
Dirty golden rule
You're just a brand new second hand

What you've got, girl
That I don't know
Why you really really got to
Exalt yourself so
Mama used to tell me
A long time ago, girl
It's not everything you own
That glitters is gold

So you're just a brand new second hand
No man no want no
Brand new second hand
You better go back round so girl
Brand new second hand
Don't you show us
Brand new second hand

If you think it's the dress you wear
That makes you a lady
Get that out of your mind
You must be crazy

You're just a brand new second hand, yes girl
No man no want
Brand new second hand, yes girl
No bother come show off so
You're just a brand new second hand

Arriba

Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
There was a buffalo soldier
In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival

I mean it, when I analyse the stench
To me, it makes a lot of sense
How the dreadlock rasta was a buffalo soldier
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival

Said he was a buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
Buffalo soldier, in the heart of America

If you know your history
Then you would know where you coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do, I think I am

I'm just a buffalo soldier
In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Said he was fighting on arrival
Fighting for survival
Said he was a buffalo soldier
Win the war for America

Dreadie, woe yoe yoe, woe woe yoe yoe
Woe yoe yoe yo, yo yo woe yo, woe yoe yoe
(repaet)
Buffalo soldier, trodding through the land
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand
Trodding through the land, yea, yea

Said he was a buffalo soldier
Win the war for America
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Driven from the mainland
To the heart of the caribbean

Singing, woe yoe yoe, woe woe yoe yoe
Woe yoe yoe yo, yo yo woe yo woe yo yoe
(repeat)

Trodding through San Juan
In the arms of America
Trodding through Jamaica, a buffalo soldier
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta

Singing, woe yoe yoe, woe woe yoe yoe
Woe yoe yeo yo, yo yo woe yo woe yo yoe

This morning I woke up in a curfew
Oh God, I was a prisoner too, yeah
Could not recognize the faces standing over me
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality, eahy!

How many rivers do we have to cross
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All of we've got it's seems we have lost
We must have really paid the cost

Dat's why we gonna be
Burnin' and lootin' tonight
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
Burnin' and lootin' tonight
(One more thing)
Burning and pollution tonight
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burning all illution tonight
(Oh, stop them)

Give me the food and let me grow
Let the rootman take a blow, yeah
All dem drugs gonna make you slow, now
It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!

Weeping and a wailing tonight
(Uh, can't stop the tears)
Weeping and a wailing tonight
(We've been so freak this long, long years)
Weeping and a wailing to night
(Will you say cheer)
Weeping and a wailing to night
(But where?)

Give me the food and let me grow
Let the rootman take a blow, eahy!
I say, all, all dem drugs gonna make you slow
It's not the music of the ghetto

We gonna be burnin' and lootin' to night
(To survive, yeah)
Burnin' and lootin' to night
(Safe your baby life)
Burning and pollution to night
(Pollution, get out there)
Burning all illution to night
(Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord)

Burnin' and lootin' tonight
Burnin' and lootin' tonight
Burning and pollution tonight

Arriba

Chances are we're gonna leave now
Sorry for the victim now
Though my days are filled with sorrow
I see years of bright tommorrow

Chances, chances are some might not hold out
Chances are, hang on right now
Though-oh-oh-oh my-my days are filled with sorrow
I see years of bright tommorrow

Chances, chances are some might not hold out
Chances are, hang on right now
Chances are, oh chances, you're my chances
Chances are, hang on right now

Chances are, hang on right now

Deal with loneliness, I'll take some tear drops
Chances are we'll have to win
Chances are, hang on right now
Chances are, chances are...

Arriba

Come we go burn down Babylon one more time
Come we go chant down Babylon one more time
For them soft, yes them soft
Them soft, yes them soft
So come we go chant down Babylon one more time

Men see their dreams and aspirations
Crumble in front of their face
And all their wicked intentions to destroy the 
Human race

And how I know, and that's how I know
A reggae music, mek we chant down Babylon
With music, mek we chant down Babylon
This music, mek we chant down Babylon
This music, come we chant down Babylon

Come we go chant down Babylon one more time
Come we go chant down Babylon one more time
For them soft, yes them soft
Them soft, mi say them soft
So come we go chant down Babylon one more time

Music you're, music you're the key
Talk to who, please talk to me
Bring the voice of the rastaman
Communicating to everyone

How I, how I know, how I, how I know
And that's how I know
A reggae music, chant down, chant down Babylon
Chant down Babylon
Reggae music, chant down Babylon
Reggae music, chant down Babylon
Reggae music, chant down Babylon
Reggae music

Arriba

Cheer up my brothers, cheer up my sisters
Cheer up my momma too, Lord
Cheer up my father, let me say
I know it won't be long
That change has got to come
That change has got to come
And I know that it won't be long
We've been down in captivity [captivity] so long, so long
If we unite then we will be free [we will be free] 
        so strong, so strong, come I want you to
Cheer up my [brothers] my sisters
[cheer up my sisters] let me say
Cheer up my my my momma too, Lord
Cheer up my father

Let me say, we've been down in captivity [captivity] 
        so long, so long
We unite we will be free [we will be free] 
        so strong, so strong
Cheer up my my my my my my brother
[cheer up my sister] cheer up my sisters
[cheer up my momma] my momma too Lord
[cheer up my] my father
And I, I, I

Arriba

In this life, in this life, in this life
In this oh sweet life
We're coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in
Coming in from the cold

It's you, it's you, it's you I'm talking to
Well you, it's you, it's you 
It's you I'm talking to now
Why do you look so sad and foresaken
When one door is closed
Don't you know another is open

Would you let the system
Make you kill your brotherman
No, dread, no
Would you make the system
Make you kill your brotherman
No, dread, no
Would you make the system
Get on top of your head again
No, dread, no
Well the biggest man you ever did see was just a baby

In this life, in this life
In this oh sweet life
We're coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in
We're coming in from the cold
It's life, it's life, it's life
Coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in
Coming in from the cold

It's you, it's you, it's you I'm talking to
Well you, it's you, it's you
It's you I'm talking to now
Why do you look so sad and foresaken
Don't you know
When one door is closed
Don't you know many more is open

Would you let the system
No, dread, no
Would you let the system
Get on top of your head
No, dread, no
Would you let the system
Make you kill your brotherman
No, dread, no
The biggest man you ever did see was once a baby

In this life, in this life, in this life
In this oh sweet life
We're coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in
Coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in

Arriba

No sun will shine in my day today
(No sun will shine.)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play
(Won't come out to play.)
Darkness has covered my light (and has changed,)
And has changed my day into night
Now where is this love to be found, won't someone tell me?
'Cause life, sweet life, must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle where the livin' is hardest
Concrete jungle, oh man, you've got to do your best, yeah.

No chains around my feet, but I'm not free
I know I am bound here in captivity
And I've never known happiness, and I've never known sweet caresses
Still, I be always laughing like a clown
Won't someone help me?
Cause, sweet life, I've, I've got to pick myself from off the ground, yeah
In this here concrete jungle,
I say, what do you got for me now?
Concrete jungle, oh, why won't you let me be now?

I said life must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle, illusion, confusion
Concreate jungle, yeah
Concrete jungle, you name it, we got it, concrete jungle now

Concrete jungle, what do you got for me now?

Arriba

Could you be loved and be loved
Could you be loved and be loved

Don't let them fool you
Or even try to school you, oh! no
We've got a mind of our own
So go to hell if what you're thinking isn't right
Love would never leave us alone
In the darkness there must come out to light

Could you be loved and be loved
Could you be loved and be loved

The road of life is rocky
And you may stumble too
So while you point your fingers
Someone else is judging you
Love your brotherman

Could you be, could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved

Don't let them change you
Or even rearrange you, oh! no
We've got a life to live
They say only, only
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive
Stay alive

Could you be loved and be loved
Could you be loved and be loved

You ain't gonna miss your water
Until your well runs dry
No matter how you treat him
The man will never be satisfied

Could you be, could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved

Say something, say something, say something
Say something
Reggae, reggae
Say something
Rockers, rockers
Say something could you be loved

Arriba

Craven a go choke puppy
Craven a go choke puppy not
Craven a go choke puppy
Whoa
(wow wow wow wow)
So you want all for yourself alone
(wow wow wow wow)
And you don't think about the other man
(wow wow wow wow)
Let me tell you my friend if you gonna live this life
(wow wow wow wow)
It's not good for you to build strife

Craven a go choke puppy
Can you dig it

(wow wow wow wow)
Want all lose all
(wow wow wow wow)
Then I know the wicked must fall
(wow wow wow wow)
I say want it, want it can't get it
(wow wow wow wow) oh no,
And get it, get it, no want it
(wow wow wow wow) 
Oh that's why i say

Craven a go choke puppy
Craven a go choke puppy now
Craven a go choke puppy
Whoa, can you dig it (wow wow wow wow) 
Oh yeah (wow wow wow wow) 

The craven dog will lose his bone
(wow wow wow wow)
The craven dog
(wow wow wow wow)
The craven dog will lose his bone
(whoo)
Grafting after something else
(whoo)
They'll take it for themselves alone
(whoo)
They don't think about the other man
(whoo)
The old time people say, want it, want it can't get it 
yeah

Arriba

Them crazy, them crazy
We gonna chase those crazy
Baldheads out of town
Chase those crazy baldheads
Out of town

I and I build the cabin
I and I plant the corn
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country
Now you look me with a scorn
Then you eat up all my corn

We gonna chase those crazy baldheads
Chase them crazy
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above

We gonna chase those crazy
Chase those crazy bunkheads
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

Here comes the conman
Coming with his con plan
We won't take no bribe, we got to stay alive

We gonna chase those crazy
Chase those crazy baldheads
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

Arriba

They say the sun, shines for all
But in some people world, it never shine at all
They say love is a stream, that will find its course
Some people life is a dream
So they making matters worse

But no matter what the crisis is (repeat)
Doing it, doing it, doing your thing
Give JAH all the thanks and praises
Giving it, giving it, giving it
Give JAH all the thanks and praises

So much have been said, so little been done
They still killing, killing the people
And they having, having, having lots of fun
Killing the people, having their fun
They just want to be the leader
In the house of the rising sun

But no matter what the crisis is (repeat)
Do your, live it up, live it up, live it up
Give JAH all the thanks and praises
Live it up, live it up, live it up, live it up
Give JAH all the thanks and praises

They say the sun, shines for all
But in some people's world, it never shines at all
They say love is a stream, that will find its course, 
And every river runs to sea
Some people still think life is a dream
So they making matters worse

No matter what the crisis is (repeat)
Do it, live it up, live it up, live it up
Give JAH all the thanks and praises
Live it up, live it up, live it up, live it up
Give JAH all the thanks and praises (repeat)
His mercies endureth for ever yeah
Give JAH all the thanks and praises (repeat)
Oh children, come and give JAH
Give JAH all the thanks and praises (repeat)

Arriba

Cry to me
Cry to me yeah!
You're gonna walk back through the heartaches
You're gonna walk back through the pain
You're gonna shed those lonely teardrops
The reaction of your cheating game

You've got to cry to me yeah!
You've got to cry to me now
Lord knows how I get from the heartaches
Lord that leadeth me yeah!
And now I'm by the still water

You've got to cry to me yeah!
Cry to me now
You've got to cry to me yeah!
You're gonna spend those lonely hours

You're gonna shed those lonely tears
Walk back through the heartaches
Walk back through the pain
Shed those lonely teardrops
Reaction of your cheating game

Arriba

(I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
Donna (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
Donna (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
Donna (I need you, yes, I need you ...)
You can hear me say that I need you, ooh
And I would like you to be the woman (I need you, yes, I need ...)
Why you treat me this way, I can't understand (I need you, yes, I need ...)
You hear what I've got to say (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
No slippin', no slidin', no bumpin', no borin'
Donna came riding to town (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
If you follow the race, it's no disgrace
Donna, pick yourself from off the ground (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)

(I need you, yes, I need you ...)
Donna, I wanna hear you (I need you, yes, I need ...)
Soon come, soon come, soon come (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
No slippin', no slidin', no bumpin', no borin'
Donna came riding to town (I need you, yes, I need you, Donna)
If you follow the race, it's no disgrace
Donna, pick yourself from off the ground, say something (... yes, I need ...)
Say something (I need you, yes, I need you ...) ...

Arriba

Oh, please don't you rock my boat
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rocking
Don't rock my boat (Repeat)

I'm telling you that, oh-whooh-whooh
I like it like this, I like it like this
And you should know, you should know by now
I like it, I like it like this, I like it like this
Yeah, you satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
You satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
Every little action, there is a reaction
Oh, can't you see what you have done for me?
I am happy inside, all, all of the time.

When we bend a new corner
I feel like a sweep-stake winner
When I meet you around the corner
You make me feel like a 
Sweep-stake winner
Whoa child, can't you see,
You must believe me
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see, why won't you believe me
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling

When I meet you around the corner
Oh, I said baby, never let me be a loner
And then you hold me tight
You make me feel alright
Yes, when you hold me tight
You made me feel alright

Whoa, honey, can't you see,
Don't you believe me?
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see, why won't you believe me?
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling

Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
That's all I want from you
That's all I'll take from you
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul

Arriba

How many times I've told you I love you?
But now you want to say that we are through
Oh, what more can I do?
What more can I say to you?
Now you're gone...

Do you remember that first night we met?
That was a moment I never will forget
Love was at first sight
You came walking through the pale,
Pale moonlight
Pale moonlight

Do you remember that first night we met?
That was a moment I'll-ahh never will forget
Love was at your first sight
You came walking through the p-p-pale, p-p-pale,
Pale moonlight
Pale moonlight

Doo, do-do-wop, choo-wop, choo-wop
Doo, do-do-wop, choo-wop, choo-wop

Arriba

Yes me friend
We de a street again
Yes me friend (me good friend)
Dem say we're free again

The bars could not hold me
Force could not control me, now
They try to keep me down
But JAH put I around

Yes, I've been accused (many a times)
And wrongly abused, now
But through the powers of the most-high
They've got to turn me loose

Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now
I've got to reach mount zion -
The highest region
So if you're a bull-bucker,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror!

Yes me friend (me good friend)
We de a street again
Yes me friend (me good friend)
Dem say we're free again

So don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now
I've got to reach mount zion -
The highest region
So if you're a bull-bucker,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror!

Yes me friend
Dem say we're free again, oh, oh yeah!
Yes me friend
Dem set me free again

Arriba

Easy skanking, skanking it easy
Easy skanking, skanking it slow (repeat)

Excuse me while I light my spliff
Good GOD I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff

Take it easy, easy skanking (repeat)
Got to take it easy, easy skanking
You see we're taking it easy
We're taking it slow, taking it easy
Got to take it slow, so take it easy
Easy skanking, easy skanking
Oh take it easy, easy skanking

Excuse me while I light my spliff
Oh GOD I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff

Take it easy, taking it easy
Got to take it easy, taking it slow
Take it easy, taking it easy
Skanky take it easy, taking it slow

Tell you what herb for my wine
Honey for my strong drink
Herb for my wine, honey for my strong drink

I'll take it easy, taking it easy
Take it easy, skanking it slow
Take it easy, taking it easy
Take it easy, skanking it slow

Arriba

Exodus, movement of JAH people, oh yeah
Open your eyes and let me tell you this

Men and people will fight ya down (tell me why?)
When ya see JAH light (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
Let me tell you, if you're not wrong (then why?)
Everything is alright
So we gonna walk, alright, through the roads of creation
We're the generation (tell me why)
Trod through great tribulation

Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people

Open your eyes and look within
Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
We know where we're going
We know where we're from
We're leaving Babylon
We're going to our fatherland

Exodus, movement of JAH people
(Movement of JAH people)
Send us another Brother Moses gonna cross the Red Sea
(Movement of JAH people)
Send us another Brother Moses gonna cross the Red Sea

Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus, Exodus,
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!

Open your eyes and look within
Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
We know where we're going
We know where we're from
We're leaving Babylon
We're going to the fatherland

Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Movement of JAH people (4 times)
Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!

JAH come to break down 'pression, rule equality
Wipe away transgression, set the captives free

Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Movement of JAH people (5 times)

Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!
Movement of JAH people (5 times)

Arriba

We'll be forever loving JAH
We'll be forever loving JAH

Some they say see them walking up the street
They say we are going wrong to all the people we meet
But we won't worry, we won't shed no tears
We found a way to cast away the fears
Forever yeah!

We'll be forever loving JAH
We'll be forever
We'll be forever loving JAH
Forever yes and forever
We'll be forever loving JAH, there'll be no end

So old man river don't dry for me
I have got a running stream of love you see
So no matter what stages, oh stages, stages
Stages they put us thru we'll never be blue
No matter what rages, oh rages, changes
Rages they put us thru, we'll never be blue
We'll be forever yeah!

We'll be forever loving JAH
We'll be forever
We'll be forever loving JAH
Forever and ever and forever
Cause there is no end

Cause only a fool lean up on
Lean upon his own misunderstanding
And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent
Been revealed to the babe and the suckling
In every thing, in every way I say

We'll be forever loving JAH
We'll be forever
We'll be forever loving JAH

Cause just like a tree planted by the river of water
That bringeth forth bringeth forth, fruits in due season
Every thing in life got its purpose
Find its reason in every season, forever yeah

We'll be forever loving JAH
We'll be forever
We'll be forever loving JAH
On and on and on
We'll be forever loving JAH

Arriba

Got the news from the whispering trees
This is the time when man must be freed
No more burning in vain
All we lose we'll have to gain

Get ready children please
Get ready children please
Get ready children please

Didn't I build the cabin
Didn't I plant the corn
Didn't my people keep holy
Slave to this country

Get ready children please
Get ready children please
Get ready children please

My sermon it was billed for freedom
The good Lord said son you're a free man
I'm gonna talk that freedom talk
Let me see you walk that freedom walk

When yah gets ready, children please
Get ready children please
Get ready children please

A tell yah, got the news from a whispering tree
...

Arriba

Why's this fussing and a-fighting?
I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know
Why's this bumping and a-boring?
I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know now

We should really love each other (love each other)
In peace and harmony (peace and harmony), ooh
Instead, we're fussing and fighting (fussing and fighting)
And them workin' iniquity (... iniquity)

Why's this fussing and a-fighting?
I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know (... know), I wanna know now
Why's this cheating and backbiting?
(I wanna know ...) I wanna know, oh, Lord, I wanna know now

(Stop your fussing and fighting, stop your fussing and fighting)

(Stop your fussing and fighting, stop your fussing and fighting)

We should really love each other (love each other)
In peace and harmony (peace and harmony)
Instead, instead, we're fussing and fighting (fussing and fighting)
Like we ain't supposed to be (... supposed to be), tell me why

Why's this fussing and a-fighting?
I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know, someone, please
Why's this (... bumping and ...) bumping and boring?
(I wanna ...) I wanna know (... I wanna know), Lord, tell me now ...

Arriba

Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know what life is really worth
Is not all that glitters is gold and
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, aay
Stand up for your right.  Come on

Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight

Most people think great God will come from the sky
Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
You stand up for your right, yeah!

Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up.  Life is your right
So we can't give up the fight
Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord
Get up, stand up.  Keep on struggling on
Don't give up the fight

We're sick and tired of your ism and skism game
Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord
We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light
We gonna stand up for our right

So you'd better get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight

Arriba

Give thanks and praises to the Most High, JAH
Give thanks and praises so High, so High
He will not deceive us my brethren
He will only lead us again
Oh take that veil from off of your eyes
Look into the future of realise

Noah had three suns, Ham, Shem and Japhet
And in Ham is known to be the Prophet
Glory to JAH the Prophet is come
Through all these ages
Glory to JAH the Prophet has come
Through all these stages

When my soul was hurtin deep within
And I'm worrying to be free, desperately, yeah
So guide and protect I and I oh JAH, JAH
Through all these ages
Guide and protect I and I oh JAH, JAH
Through all these stages

Rastafari is His Name, JAH Rastafari is His Name, JAH
If JAH didn't love I, if I didn't love I
If JAH didn't love I, if I didn't love I
Would I be around today
Would I be around to say

Give thanks and praises, give thanks and praises
Give thanks and praises, give thanks and praises
Give thanks and praises, give thanks and praises

Arriba

You said you love me
I said I love you
Why won't you stop your crying?
Dry your weeping eyes
You know that I love
I love, I love , I love you so, Damsel.
Here I am.
Me said, "Come rub it 'pon me belly
With you guava jelly, Damsel."
Said, "Here I stand.
Come rub it 'pon me belly with you guava jelly."
I really, really, I really love you.
Yes, I really, really love you, child.

I'll say you should stop, stop crying.
Wipe your weeping eyes.
Baby, how I'm gonna love,
Love you from the bottom of my heart.
Damsel, here I am.
Oh damsel, come rub it 'pon me belly
With your guava jelly.
Damsel, here I stand.
I can't explain, though the fact still remain.
Come rub it 'pon me belly with you guava jelly.
I need your love so much.
Come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a,
Damsel, oh darling.
Oh, Damsel baby, me say come rub it.
Here I am.
Come rub it 'pon me belly with you guava jelly.

Guiltiness (talkin' 'bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience, oh yeah, oh yeah.
And they live their lives (they live their lives)
On false pretence everyday,
Each and everyday, yeah.

These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.
I tell you what, they would do anything
To materialize their every wish, oh yeah-eah-eah-eah.

Say, woe to the downpressors,
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors,
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors,
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! Oh, yeah-eah-eah-eah!

Guiltiness
Pressed on their conscience, oh yeah, oh yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.

I tell you what, they would do anything
To materialize their every wish, oh, yeah-eah-eah-eah-eah-eah.

But, woe to the downpressors,
They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors,
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors,
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! Oh yeah-e-e-e-e-e!

Guiltiness, oh yeah, ah!
They'll eat the bread of sorrow everyday.

Arriba

How many times I've told you I love you?
But now you want to say that we are through
Oh, what more can I do?
What more can I say to you?
Now you're gone...

Do you remember that first night we met?
That was a moment I never will forget
Love was at first sight
You came walking through the pale,
Pale moonlight
Pale moonlight

Do you remember that first night we met?
That was a moment I'll-ahh never will forget
Love was at your first sight
You came walking through the p-p-pale, p-p-pale,
Pale moonlight
Pale moonlight

Doo, do-do-wop, choo-wop, choo-wop
Doo, do-do-wop, choo-wop, choo-wop

Arriba

I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
Well when I look over Jordan what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
Well there's a whole bunch of angels coming [everybody]
Coming for to carry me home, and
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
And if you reach up there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Just tell everyone that I'm a coming up there too
Coming for to carry me home [everybody]
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home

I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
Well when I look over Jordan, what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
There's a whole bunch of angels they're coming
Coming for to carry me home [well everybody]
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home, everyday, everyone
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
Well, I'm a going home
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
Well, I'm a going home
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going...

Arriba

Wo, man, deh you are!

When the race gets hard to run
It means you just can't take the pace
When it's time to have your fun
You find the tears run on down through
Your face, then you stop and think a little
Are you the victim of the system
Anyday now they gonna let you down
Remember Natty will be there
To see you through

And ain't it good to know now
JAH will be waiting there
Ain't it doggone good to know you all
JAH will be waiting there
Wait in summer, wait in spring
Waitin autumn, winter thing
Tribe goes up, all the tribe goes down
Bring my children from the end of the earth

Many a time I sit and wonder why
This race so, so very hard to run
Then I say to my soul take courage
Battle to be won
Like a ship that's tossed and driven
Battered by the angry sea yeah!
Say the tide of time was raging
Don't let the fury fall on me, no, no, no

Cause I know JAH will be waiting there
Ain't it good to know now
JAH will be waiting there
Lost and found, who speak I give
Speak I give, lost and found (repeat)

Arriba

I made a mistake, yes, I did, yes, I did
Made a mistake, yes, I did, yes, I did
Now I'm so far from her, but it was me and my fate
Who lost because of my mistake
My trusting her has gone much too late

I've sent away the girl I love
I said, I've sent away the girl I love
She well gone, people crying
Said, my bold heart been dying
Who is it who made that mistake?
Who is it who made that mistake?

Oh, what a fool I've been tonight
The girl I love is out of sight
Now I'm so far from her, but it was me and my fate
Who lost because of my mistake
My trusting her has gone much too late

Oh, what a fool I've been tonight
The girl I love is out of sight
Now I'm so far from her, but it was me and my fate
Who lost because of my mistake, my, my mistake
Who lost because of my mistake

Arriba

When I was just a little child
Happiness was there awhile
Then from me, yeah, it slipped one day
Happiness, come back, I say
'Cause if you don't come, I've got to go
Lookin' for happiness
Well, if you don't come, I've got to go
Lookin', Lord, for happiness, happpiness

I'm hurting inside
I'm hurting inside
Oh, hear my cry, hear my cry, yeah
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, cry

Been together like school children
Then you hurt me just in vain
Lord, I'm your weary child
Happiness, come back awhile
'Cause if you don't come, I've got to go
Lookin' for happiness
The road is dangerous
Well, if you don't come, I've got to go
Lookin', Lord, for happiness, happiness
I'm hurting inside
I'm hurting inside (repeat)

Feel the pain, feel the pain
I'm hurting inside
I'm hurting inside

Arriba

I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting,
I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting for you,
Why oh why, why oh why?

I said my feet won't keep me up anymore.
Ev'ry little beat my heart beats, girl,
It's at your door.
I just wanna love you
And I'm never gonna hurt you, girl.
So why won't you come out to me now, girl?
Oh, can't you see I'm under your spell?
But, I got to, got to go.

Why, girl, oh why, girl?

Whoa, my gosh the rain is falling,
And I just can't stop calling.
And I just can't tell the raindrops
From my teardrops
Falling down my face.
Look at it,
It isn't really raindrops.

I'm still waiting,
Teardrops falling down my face.
I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting,
I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting,
Yes I will.

I wait in the rain, I wait in the sun.
Please, relieve me from these pains,
Oh pains, just pains.
I lvoe you, yes I do.
But tell me, do you really love me, too.

Arriba

I am on the rock and then I check a stock
I have to run like a fugitive to save the life I live
I'm gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion 
I'm gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion 
Iron Lion Zion

I'm on the run but I ain't got no gun
See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying Iron like a Lion in Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion,
Iron Lion Zion

I'm on the rock, (running and you running)
I take a stock, (running like a fugitive)
I had to run like a fugitive just to save the life I live
I'm gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion 
I'm gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion 
Iron Lion Zion, Iron Lion Zion, Iron Lion Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion, Iron like a lion in Zion
Iron Like a Lion in Zion

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Oh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, ooh, ooh Yeah

All around in my hometown
They're tryin' to track me down, yeah
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy, for the life of a deputy
But I say, oh, now, now...

Oh, I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
I said, I shot the sheriff, Oh Lord
And they say it is a capital offense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Hear this

Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what I don't know
Ev'ry time I plant a seed
He said, "Kill it before it grows."
He said, "Kill them before they grow."

And so, oh, now, now,
Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Where was the deputy?
I said I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down
And I say, if I am guilty I will pay

I shot the sheriff, but I say, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooo, ooo, ooh

Reflexes had the better of me
And what is to be must be
Ev'ry day the bucket a-go-a well
One day the bottom a-go drop out
One day the bottom a-go drop out
I say, I, I, ...

I, I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the deputy, no
(Repeat)

I wanna love you and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

Is this love, is this love, is this love
Is this love, is this love that I am feeling (repeat)
I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now
I got to know, got to know, got to know now

I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards on your table
I wanna love and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

Is this love, is this love, is this love
Is this love, is this love that I am feelin (repeat)
Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes I know now (repeat)

I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards on your table
See, I wanna love you
I wanna love and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

After he, breaks your heart
Then you'll be sad
And your teardrops start
Then you'll know how
It hurts to be alone

Just because you think that you're so smart
Going around breaking lover's hearts
Now you're defeated
By your own weapon

After he, breaks your heart
Then you'll be sad
And your teardrops start
Then you'll know now
It hurts to be alone

Arriba

JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah  
JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah

The truth is an offense but not a sin
Is he who laugh last, children! is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! to respect the shepherd

JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah  
JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah, JAH

Fool say in their heart
Rasta your God is dead
But I and I know, JAH JAH
Dread it shall be Dreader Dread

JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah  
JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah

Let JAH arise
Now that the enemies are scattered
Let JAH arise
The enemies, the enemies are scattered

JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live children yeah
JAH live children yeah
JAH-JAH live

Jailhouse keeps empty [rudie gets healt'y]
Baton sticks get shorter [rudie gets taller]
Can't fight against the youth now coz they so wrong [yout' a good good rudie]
Can't fight against the youth now coz 'e is strong [yout' a good good rudie]
Prediction, them people are going wild [Dem a rude rude people]
Dem peegoo a goin' wil' [Dem a rude rude people]
Shake 'er one time for me sir [she a rude rude people]
Shake 'er one time for me sir [she a rude rude people]
The message, we gonna rule this land
Can't fight against prediction, [wise wise rudie]
What has been hid from the wise and the polluted is how me feel

Arriba

We're jamming
I wanna jam it with you,
We're jamming, jamming
And I hope you like jamming too

Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow
I and I will see you through,
'Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice
Jamming till the jam is through

We're jamming
To think that jamming was a thing of the past,
We're jamming, jamming
And I hope this jam is gonna last

No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow
Neither can be bought or sold.
We all defend the right, JAH JAH children must unite
Your life is worth much more than gold

We're jamming, jamming
We're jamming in the name of the Lord
We're jamming, jamming
We're jamming right straight from JAH

Holy Mount Zion
Holy Mount Zion
JAH sitteth in Mount Zion
And rules all Creation

Yeah, we're jamming, jamming
I wanna jam it with you
We're jamming, jamming
I'm jammed, I hope you're jamming too

Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide
Too keep you satisfied
True love that now exist is the love I can't resist
So jam by my side

Woman hold her head and cry
Cause her son had been
Shot down in the street and died
From a stray bullet

Woman hold her head and cry
Explaining to her was a passerby
Who saw the woman cry
Wondering how can she work it out
Now she knows that the wges of sin is death
Gift of JAH is life
She cried....

Johnny was a goodman
Never did a thing wrong
(Repeat)

Woman hold her head and cry
Cause her son had been
Shot down in the street and died
Just because of the system

Woman hold her head and cry
Comforting her was a passerby
She complained, then she cry

Johnny was a goodman
Never did a thing wrong
(Repeat)

Can a woman tender care
She cried...
Cease towards the child she bear
(Repeat)

Don't you look at me so smugle
And say I'm going bad
Who are you to judge me
And the life I got I live
I know that I'm not perfect
And that I don't live to be
So before you hint your finger
Show your hands are clean

Judge not,
Before you judge yourself
Judge not,
If you're not ready for judgement, ohoho

The road of life is rocky
And you missed on the doom
So why you talk about me
Someone else is judging you

Judge not,
Before you judge yourself
Judge not,
If you're not ready for judgement, ohoho

The road of life is rocky
And you mist on to do
So why you talk about me
Someone else is judging you
Someone else is judging you
Someone else is judging you
Someone else is judging you

Love to see, when ya move in the rhythm
I love to see when you're dancing from within
It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness
Everyone's doing, and they're doing their best
It remind I of the days in Jericho
When we trodding down Jericho walls
These are the days when we'll trod through Babylon
Gonna trod until Babylon falls

Sing your song yah!
Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
(repeat)

We've got the herb, we've got the herb
We've got the herb
So hand I the suru board
Cause most of all we ain't got nothing to lose

Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
(repeat)

Love to see, when ya groove with the rhythm
Cause I love to see, when you're dancing from within
It gives great joy to see such sweet togetherness
Cause everyone's doing and they're doing their best
Cause it remind me of the days in Jericho
When we trodding down Jericho walls
These are the days when we'll trod through Babylon
We keep on Trodding until Babylon falls

Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
(repeat)

Arriba

Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is falling

Got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood
So here I come again

I got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
I got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

Feelin' irie I, Feelin' irie I
Feelin' irie I, 'cause I have some kaya now

I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood
So here I come again

I got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
I got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

Get up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose for the rain is falling
Well kayaman, kaya, kaya

Arriba

Lord, I got to keep on moving
Lord, I got to get on down
Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found, where I can't be found
Lord, they coming after me

I've been accused on my mission
JAH knows you shouldn't do
For hanging me they were willing yeah! yeah!
And that's why I've got to get on thru
Lord they coming after me

Lord I got to keep on moving
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found
Lord they're coming after me

I know someday we'll find that piece
Of land somewhere not nearby Babylon
The war will soon be over and Africa
Will unite the children who liveth in
Darkness have seen the great light

I've got two boys and a woman
And I know they won't suffer now
JAH forgive me for not going back
But I'll be there anyhow
Yes I'll be there anyhow

Lord I got to keep on moving
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found, where I can't be found
Lord they coming after me

Arriba

Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Lord, I've got to get on down
Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found
Lord, they're coming after me

I've been accused for the killin'
Lord knows I didn't do
For hangin' me, they are willin', yeah, yeah
And that's why I've got to get on thru
Lord, they're coming after me (a-one more time)

(I say) Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Lord, I've got to get on down
Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found
Lord, they're coming after me

(Now, listen) I've got two boys and a woman
They're just gonna suffer now
Lord, forgive me for not goin' back
But I'll be there anyhow
I'll be there anyhow (one more time)

(I say) Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Lord, I've got to get on down
Lord, I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found
Lord, they're coming after me

Now, maybe someday I'll find a piece of land
Somewhere not by near anyone
Then I'll send for my love, love, love, love, sweet woman
And my two grown up son
My two grown up son (yeah, yeah ...)

(I say now) Lord I've got to keep on moving ...

Arriba

I went downtown, (I went downtown)
I saw Miss Brown; (said, I saw Miss Brown)
She had brown sugar (had brown sugar)
All over her booga-wooga. (over her booga-wooga)

I think I might join the fun, (I might join the fun)
But I had to hit and run. (had to hit and run)
See I just can't settle down (just can't settle down)
In a kinky part of town.

Ride on;
Don't you know I've got to (ride on), oh baby,
Ride on; see I just can't settle down. (ride on)
Oh, I'm a leavin' town. (kinky reggae)

Kinky reggae, take me away! (kinky reggae, now) Kinky reggae, now!
Oh, kinky reggae; all I've got to say, kinky reggae, now!
Kinky reggae, oh baby! Kinky reggae, now!
It's gonna be kinky reggae (keep it up). Kinky reggae, now!
An' I would say: ride on, ride on, ride on (ride on)!
Oh, ride on, baby!
Ride on, come on, woo-o-o! (ride on) Wo-now! Eh!

I went down to Piccadilly Circus; (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Down there I saw Marcus: (oo-oo-oo-ooh)
He had a candy tar (ooh-ooh-ooh)
All over his chocolate bar. (oo-oo-oo-ooh)

I think I might join the fun, (I might join the fun)
But I had to hit and run. (had to hit and run)
See I just can't settle down (just can't settle down)
In a kinky, kinky part of town.

Nice one; that's what they say, (nice one)
But I'm leavin' you today. (nice one)
Oh, darlin', please don't pay: (nice one)
Mama say - mama say.

Kinky reggae - kinky reggae, uh! Kinky reggae, now!
Take it or leave it!
Kinky reggae, believe it! Kinky reggae, now!
Kinky reggae - it's gonna be: kinky reggae!
Kinky reggae, now! Cuka-yeah, now!
Kinky reggae - sca-ba-dool-ya-bung, baby!
Kinky reggae, now, oh-oh-ooh!
(Ride on!) Ride on! Come on, yeah! (Ride on)
Riding on - riding on!
Ride on, kinky reggae. Come on, ride on! Eh! Eh!
Kinky, kinky, kinky as kinky (kinky reggae) can be ! Reggae! Eh!
Kinky reggae! Let me hear ya say, now: kinky reggae, now. Oh!
Kinky reggae! Kinky reggae, now! Kick it away!
Kinky reggae - kick it away, now! Kinky reggae, now, oh!
Ride on!

Arriba

Dis was cause(d) t'ru (through) love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru (through) love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru (through) love and affection

And I-a-I
I was de one who feels de pain
I was de one where the heartaches remain
I was de one who always feel de pain

Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection

Dats' why
I have de lonesome feeling
It hurts to be alone
Now I'm a king
But sitting on an empty t'rone

Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
du-du-dup-de-dup-de-dup
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection
Dis was cause(d) t'ru love and affection

Dat's why
I have de lonesome feeling
It hurts to be alone
Now I'm a king
But sitting on an empty t'rone

Arriba

Rudie come from jail 'cause rudie get bail
Rudie come from jail 'cause rudie get bail

You frame him your cell, things he didn't do
You rebuke and you scorn, and you make him feel blue

(Let him go) You got to let him go (let him go), I beg you let him, let him go
(Let him go) Let him, let him go, why, oh?
Let him go, and me seh why, oh?
(Let him go) You got to let him (let him go), I beg you let him, let him go
(Let him go) Let him, let him go, why, oh?
Let him go, and me seh why, oh?

Rudie come from jail 'cause rudie get bail
Rudie come from jail 'cause rudie get bail

Remember he is smart, remember he is strong
Remember he is young and he will live long (so)

(Let him go) You got to let him go (let him go), I beg you let him, let him go
(Let him go) Let him, let him go, why, oh?
Let him go, and me seh why, oh?
(Let him go) You got to let him go (let him go), I beg you let him, let him go
(Let him go) Let him, let him go, why, oh?
Let him go, I beg you why, oh?

Rudie come from jail 'cause rudie get bail
Rudie come from jail 'cause rudie get bail

You frame him your cell, things he didn't do
You rebuke and you scorn, and you make him feel blue (oh)

(Let him go) You got to let him go (let him go), I beg you let him, let him go
(Let him go) Let him, let him go, why, oh? Hey
Let him go, and ...

Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba
Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba

I could not resist
Another like dis

And though I know you hurt me, you care
I'll go on, I'll feel the pain
And it's not that I am week
But it's that I'm on a peak

Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba
Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba

Bring it up, lick it one time
I'll settle a little (a claim?) baby
You can write it down in my name
Morning time, noon or night

Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba
Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba

If it's morning time, I'm ready
If it's late at night, I'm steady
Give it to you anytime, oh darling
I'm not a preacher, but I am calling

Arriba

You're gonna lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, oh reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself and don't say no
You're gonna lively up yourself 'cause I said so

(Hear what you gonna do)
You rock so, you rock so
Like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so
Dip thru my door
You come so, you come so, oh yeah!
You skank so, you skank so, be alive today

You're gonna lively up yourself and don't say no
You lively up yourself big daddy says so
You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself 'cause reggae is another bag

What you got that I don't know?
I'm a-trying to wonder why you act so
(Hey, do you hear what the man seh?)
Lively up your woman in the morning time, you'all
Keep a lively up your woman in the morning time, you'all
Keep a lively up your woman when the evening come and take her, take ya

You rock so, you rock so
You dip so, you dip so
You skank so, you skank so and don't be no drag
You come so, you come so for reggae is another bag

Get what you got in that bag
What have you got in the other bag you got hanging there?
What you say you got?
I don't believe you!      

Arriba

I'll play your favorite song, darling
We can rock it all night long, darling
'Cause I've got love, darling, love sweet love, darling
While the mood has got me
So let the music rock me

'Cause I've got love, darling, love sweet love, darling
Quiet is the night
Please turn off your light

I'll play your favorite song, darling
We can rock it all night long, darling
'Cause I've got love, darling, love sweet love, darling

Strike the hammer while the iron is hot, I beg you
Strike the hammer while the iron is hot, yeah
Strike the hammer while the iron is hot, now
Open up your heart
Open up your heart
Let love come running in, darling
Love sweet love, darling, love sweet my love, darling
I'll play your favorite song, darling
We can rock it all night long, darling
'Cause I've got love, darling, öove sweet love, darling

Mellow mood has got me, darling
So let the music rock me, darling
'Cause I've got love, darling, love sweet love, darling
I'll play your favorite song, darling
We can rock it all night long, darling
'Cause I've got love, darling
My love, my sweet, my love, darling

Arriba

Can't tell the woman from the man, no I say you can't
Cause they're dressed in the same pollution
Their mind is confused with confusion
With their problems since there's no solution

They become the midnight ravers
Someone say please don't let me down
Midnight ravers, midnight ravers
Please don't let me down, down, down, down
Don't let me down
Don't let me down

I see ten thousand chariots
And they coming without horses
The riders they cover their face
So you couldn't make them out in smokey places
In that musical stampede where everyone's doing their thing
Musical stampede, people swinging
Musical stampede, 

Someone say people ride on
People riding
People ride on
People riding
People ride on
People riding
Midnight ravers

I can't tell my woman from the man
She is dressed in the same pollution
Her mind is confused with confusion
To my problem seems there's never never no solution

I've become a night-life raver
And I'm begging you please don't let me down
Night-life ravers, night-life raver
Please, please don't let me down
Don't let me down
Don't let me down

I see ten thousand chariots
And they coming without horses yeah
The riders they cover their face
So you couldn't make them out in smokey places

In that musical stampede
Its the musical stampede
Its the musical stampede
Some preacher say
People ride on
People riding
People ride on
People riding
Midnight ravers, ride on

Arriba

Misty morning, don't see no sun
I know you're out there somewhere, having fun
There is one mystery, I just can't express
To give your more, to receive you less
One of my good friend said, in a reggae rhythm,
Don't jump in the water, if you can't swim
The power of philosophy, floats thru my head
You're light like a feather
Light like a feather, heavy as lead

The time has come, I want you
I want you to straighten out my tomorrow
I want, I want, I want
I want you to straighten out my tomorrow

Misty morning, don't see no sun
I know you're out there somewhere, having fun
Mysteries, I just can't express
How could you ever give more, to receive your less
Like my good friend said, in a reggae rhythm
You can't jump in the water, if gou can't swim

I want you, I want you to straighten out my today
My tomorrow, I want you to straighten out my tomorrow

On a misty morning, I want you to shaighten out my
Tomorrow, I want you to straighten out my tomorrow

Arriba

Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, yeah
Well it's not easy, it's not easy
Speak the truth, come on speak
It ever cause it what it will
He who hide the wrong he did
Surely did the wrong thing still

Get in the studio of, studio of time and experience
Here we experience, the good and bad
What we have, and what we had
This session, not just another version
Oh Lord, give me a session not another version
They're so much stumbling blocks right in our way
Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday
There's so much wanting, so much gaining
So much have done

Too much, little Mix Up, in the Mix Up, yes
Too much, little Mix Up
Too much of this Mix Up, Mix Up
Don't Mix dem up

I was born in the country, right on top of the hill
I still remain, I know I still, I will
But through your fu... respect
And through your false pride
Someone wanna take JAH children for a ride
Shut up! Open the gate, and let the saints thru...

Please make it a session
Not another version, ooh please make it a session
Not another version

Hey, you been talking all your mouth full of lies
Sitting there toppling, and Lord they criticize
So through the eyes of the fool, the deaf is wise
And through the eyes of the wise, the fool is size

Saying is too much Mix Up, Mix Up
(repeat)

I wanna clear the wheel once and for all
I wanna clear my wheels, I don't care who fall
I got to clear my wheels once and for all
Clear my wheels, don't care who fall, fall
Too much Mix Up, Mix Up

Hea! Mr. Music why don't you wanna play
Don't you know today is a bright holiday
Some people waiting for the message that you bring
They listening to every word that you'll sing

Singing, too much Mix Up, Mix Up
Would you groove along now
Too much Mix Up, Mix Up
Yes would you groove along now
Too much Mix Up, Mix Up
They just can't stop you now
Too much Mix Up, Mix Up

Arriba

Why boasteth thyself, oh mighty man
Playing smart and not being clever
Working out-equity to acheive vanity [I so, I so]
But the goodness of JAH, I-dure it for-I-ver

If you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down
Ready to cut you down
Sharpened to cut you down
Ready ato cut you down

These are the words of my master
No weak heart shall prosper

And whosoever dig a pit
Shall fall in it [if I so, I so]
And who so ever dig at a pit
Shall fall in it [if I so, I so]
Where dere is no wood
I say the fire goes out
So we'll have to cut you down [you're dry wood]
Without a doubt

These are the words of my master
No weak heart shall prosper

And whosoever dig at a pit
Shall fall in it [if I so, I so]
And whosoever dig at a pit
Shall fall in it [if I so, I so]

If you are a big tree
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down, well sharp
To cut you down
If you are a big tree
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down, well sharp
To cut you down, chop, chop

Arriba

Mr. Chatterbox how long will you live?
Always to receive but never to give
Always carry news all over the place
Mr. Chatterbox you are a big disgrace
You cheek and you tounge
A go let you down
And a when them let you down
We a go batter you around
Bif, baf, boof, those are the blows you're gonna get
Mr. Talkative, I know you will regret

Mr. Chatterbox how long will you live
Always to receive but never to give
Always carry news all over the place
You cheek, cheek, cheek, and tounge, tounge, tounge
A go let you down
And a when them let you down
We a go batter you around, hey
Bif-an, baf-an, boof, those are the blows you're gonna get, hey
Mr. Talkative I know you will regret

Mr. Chatterbox how long will you live?
Always to receive but a never to give
Always carry news all over the place
Mr. Chatterbox you are a big disgrace
You cheek and tounge
A go let you down
And a when them let you down
We a go batter you around
Bif-an, baf-an, boof-an, thats the blows you gonna get
Mr. Chatterbox, I know you will regret
Ooh yeah
Mr. Chatterbox, ooh yeah
Mr. Chatterbox, ooh yeah
[Watch him] Mr. Chatterbox
[Who's-he, who's-he, who's-he, who's-he]
Mr. Chatterbox, ooh yeah

Arriba

My cup is running over
I don't know what to do
My cup is running over
I don't know what to do
No I don't know [no I don't know] no I don't know 
[No I don't know] Yes I've got to cry, cry, cry
People let me cry, cry, cry
Said I fell a little bit better [cry, cry, cry]
If only I got to cry, cry, cry
Now that I, lost you
I've lost the best friend
That I ever knew
Now that I, realize
It makes me [makes me] it makes me [makes me]
So mad, tell you, my cup, running over
I don't know what to do
My cup is running over
I don't know what to do
No I don't know [no I don't know] no I don't know 
[No I don't know] Yes I've got to cry, cry, cry
People let me [cry, cry, cry]
[Cry, cry, cry]
[Cry, cry, cry]
Now that I, lost you
I've lost the best friend that I ever knew
Now that I, realize
It makes me [makes me] it makes me [makes me]
So mad, tell you my cup, cup, is running over baby
And I don't know what to, don't know what to do yeah
Tell you my cup, running over
And I don't know, don't know, don't know what to do
Eh
No I don't know [no I don't know] no I don't know 
[No I don't know] Yes I've got to cry, cry, cry
People let me [cry, cry, cry]
I'll feel a little bit better [cry, cry, cry]
But I got [feel like crying] [cry, cry, cry]
Ooh yeah [feel like crying] [cry, cry, cry]
Ooh yeah [feel like crying] cry, cry, cry [feel likr crying]
Cry, cry

Arriba

Dread, Natty Dread now, (Natty Dread)
Dreadlock Congo Bongo I. (Natty Dread)
Natty Dreadlock in a Babylon, (Natty Dread)
A dreadlock Congo Bongo I. (Natty Dread)
Eh, children get your culture (Natty Dreadlock)
And don't stay there and gesture, a-ah, (Natty Dreadlock)
Or the battle will be hotter (Natty Dreadlock)
And you won't get no supper. (Natty Dreadlock)

Natty Dread, Natty Dread, now, (Natty Dread)
A dreadlock Congo Bongo I. (Natty Dread)
Natty Dreadlock in a Babylon, (Natty Dread)
Roots Natty, Roots Natty! (Natty Dread)

Then I walk up the first street, (Natty Dreadlock)
And then I walk up the second street to see. (Natty Dreadlock)
Then I trod on through third street, (Natty Dreadlock)
And then I talk to some dread on fourth street. (Natty Dreadlock)
Natty Dreadlock in a fifth street, (Natty Dreadlock)
And then I skip one fence to sixth street. (Natty Dreadlock)
I've got to reach seventh street, (Natty Dreadlock)
Natty Dreadlock Bingy Bongo I (Natty Dread)
Natty Dread, Natty Dread, now, (Natty Dread)
Roots Natty Congo I. (Natty Dread)

Oh, Natty, Natty,
Natty 21,000 miles away from home, yeah!
Oh, Natty, natty,
And that's a long way
For Natty to be from home.

Don't care what the world seh, (Natty Dread)
I'n'I couldn't never go astray. (Natty Dread)
Just like a bright and sunny day, (Natty Dread)
Oh, we're gonna have things our way. (Natty Dread)
Natty Dread, Natty Dreadlock, (Natty Dreadlock)
Dreadlock Congo Bongo I. (Natty Dreadlock)
Don't care what the world seh, (Natty Dreadlock)
I'n'I gonna have things our way. (Natty Dreadlock)
If a egg Natty in a the red, (Natty Dreadlock)
If a egg Natty in a the red. (Natty Dreadlock)
Natty Dread, Natty Dreadlock.

Arriba

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air
If you listen carefully now you will hear
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
Things are not the way they used to be
I won't tell no lie
One and all got to face reality now

Though I try to find the answer
To all the questions they ask
Though I know it's impossible
To go living through the past
Don't tell no lie
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air
Can't keep them down
If you listen carefully now you will hear
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air

This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air
I won't tell no lie
If you listen carefully now, you will hear

Arriba

Long time we no have no nice time,
Doo-yoo-dee-dun-doo-yea.
Think about that.
(Repeat)

This is my heart to rock you steady.
I'll give you love the time you're ready.
This little heart in me
Just won't let me be.
I'm just to rock you, now.
Won't you rock with me?
Long time we no have no nice time,
Doo-yoo-dee-dun-doo-yeah.
Think about that.
(Repeat)

The sun shall not smite I by day, 
Nor the moon by night
And everything that I do
Shall be upfull and right

And if it's all night
It got to be alright
And if it's all night
It got to be alright

Your Mamma won't lose this one
You're the lucky one, under the sun
If you make me move
Then you know you got the groove

All night, it's alright
All night yeah! It's alright

Working on the forklift, in the night shift
Working on the night shift, with the forklift
From A.M. to P.M.
Working on a night shift yeah!
Well if it's all night

Warehouse, you're empty yeah!
Right around the corner
Bring your goods
Go around the other corner
Bring your suitcases
By the sweat of my brow
Eat your bread
By the sweat of my brow
Eat your bread

All night, alright
All night, alright

(We don't need) No, we don't need (no more trouble) no more trouble!
(We don't need no more trouble)

Wo! Oh-oh-oh!
(We don't need) We don't need no (no more) trouble!
We don't need no trouble!

(We don't need no more trouble)
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.
What we need is love (love)
To guide and protect us on. (on)
If you hope good down from above, (love)
Help the weak if you are strong now. (love)

We don't need no trouble,
What we need is love. Oh, no!
We don't need, we don't need, no more trouble!
Lord knows, we don't need no trouble!

(We don't need) We don't need trouble (no more trouble),
No more trouble, no more trouble!
Seek happiness! (...) Oh, ...!
Come on, you all and speak of love. (...) Oh, yeah!

We don't need no trouble,
What we need is love, now. (What we need is love!)
(We don't need) Oh, we don't need no more trouble!
We don't need, no, we don't need no trouble!
We don't (need), no, brothers and sisters ... (no more trouble!)

We don't need no trouble, we don't need no trouble!
We don't need no trouble!
What we need is love!

We don't need, we don't need no more, we don't need,
No more trouble, we don't need no more trouble!
Trouble we don't need (we don't need),
(We don't need) Lord knows,
We don't need no more war (no more trouble).
No more trouble, we don't need no more, more trouble!

No sympathy
What kind of love
They've got for me
I'm on my way
To happiness
Where I can find
Some peace and rest

When I'm in my trouble here
Only me feels the pain
Not one good word of advice
From any of my so called friends

I can't find no love
No sympathy
What kind of love
They've got for me
I'm on my way
To happiness
Where I can find
Some peace and rest

Might as well, might as well
I get out, I get out of hell
Hell would never be made for me
So I'm gonna search, search 'till I'm free

I can't find no love
No sympathy
What kind of love
They've got for me
I'm on my way
To happiness
Where I can find
Some peace and rest

Arriba

No woman, no cry (Repeat 4 times)

'Cause I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
Oba, ob-serving the hypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I say

No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin', don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry

Said, said, said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
Log wood burnin' through the night
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge
Of which I'll share with you

My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone...

Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright

So, no woman, no cry
No, no woman, no woman, no cry
Oh, little darling, don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry

No woman, no woman, no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Oh, my little darlin' please don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry, yeah

Arriba

Feel it in the one drop
And we'll still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
The generation gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within
Playing a rhythm resisting against the system
Ooh-we I know JAH'd never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know JAH'd never let us down
Oh no! oh no! oh no!

They made the world so hard
Everyday we got to keep on fighting
Everyday the people are dying
From hunger and starvation, lamentation
But read it in Revelation
You'll find your redemption
And then you give us the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy

Feel it on the one drop
And we still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
And we fill in the gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within, playing a rhythm
Fighting against ism and skism

Arriba

Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation.

There will never be, yeah!, no love at all
There will never be no love at all.

Got to put aside them segregation, yeah!
Got to put aside them organization,
Got to put aside them denomination.
There will, there will never be no love at all
I mean there will never be no love at all.

(Got to build our love) So build our love
(On one foundation) On one foundation
(Got to build our love) Come, let us build our love
(On one foundation) On one solid foundation.
(Got to build our love) Got to build our love
(On one) on one foundation (foundation),
Or there will never be a single drop of love
You won't have no freedom now, yeah!

Got to come together
We are birds of a feather
We got to come together
'Cause we are birds of a feather
Got to come together
'Cause we are birds of a feather;
Or there will never be (Lord, have mercy!) no love at all
There will never be, yeah, yeah!, no love at all.

We also got to realize we are one people, yeah!
Got to realize that we are one people, yeah!
We got to realize we are one people,
Or there will never be no love at all,
There will never, never, never be no love at all.

Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin', "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Sayin', "Let's get together and feel all right."
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
"Let's get together and feel all right."
One more thing

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation

Sayin', "One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right."
I'm pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart) Whoa.

"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Let's get together and feel all right.
(Repeat)

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin', "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Sayin', "Let's get together and feel all right."
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
"Let's get together and feel all right."
One more thing

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation

Sayin', "One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right."
I'm pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart) Whoa.

"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Let's get together and feel all right.
(Repeat)

Arriba

What your hands do,
It's your own eyes that've seen.
So won't you judge your actions
To make sure the results are clean?

It's your own conscience
That is gonna remind you
That it's your heart and nobody else's
That is gonna judge.

Be not selfish in your doings
Pass it on (pass it on, children)
Help your brothers (help them) in their needs
Pass it on.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, you will live again.

In the kingdom of JAH,
Man shall reign.
Pass it on,
Pass it on,
Pass it on,
Pass it on.

What's in the darkness
Must be revealed to light.
We're not here to judge what's good from bad
But to do the things that are right.

On a hot, sunny day,
Follow the shadows for rescue.
But as the day grows old,
I know the sun is gonna find you.

Be not selfish in your doings
Pass it on.
Help your brothers in their needs
Pass it on.

Live for yourself, you will live in vain,
Live for others, you will live again.

In the kingdom of JAH,
Man shall reign.
Pass it on,
Pass it on,
Pass it on,
Pass it on. (pass it on)

She love to party, have a good time
She looks so hearty, feeling fine
She loves to smoke, sometime shifting coke
She'll be laughing when there ain't no joke

A pimper's paradise, that's all she was now
A pimper's paradise, that's all she was
A pimper's paradise, that's all she was
Every need got an ego to feed
Every need got an ego to feed

She loves to model, up in the latest fashion
She's in the scramble and she moves with passion
She's getting high, tring to fly the sky
Now she is bluesing when there ain't no blues

A pimper's paradise, that's all she was now
A pimper's paradise, that's all she was
A pimper's paradise, that's all she was
Every need got an ego to feed
Every need got an ego to feed

A pimper's paradise, that's all she was now
A pimper's paradise, that's all she was
A pimper's paradise, I'm sorry for the victim now
A pimper's paradise, soon their heads, soon their
Soon their very heads will bow
Pimper's paradise, don't lose track
Don't lose track of yourself, oh no!
Pimper's paradise, don't be just a stock
A stock on the shelf, stock on the shelf
Pimper's paradise, that's all she was

Live if you want to live
Rastaman vibration yeah! Positive
I and I vibration yeah! Positive
I a man iration yeah! Irie ites
Positive vibration yeah! Positive

If you get down and quarrel everyday
You're saying prayers to the devil, I say
Why not help one another on the way
Make it much easier

Say you just can't live that negative way
You know what I mean
Make way for the positive day

Cause its a new day
New time, new feeling yeah!
Say it's a new sign
Oh what a new day

Picking up.
Are you picking up now
JAH love, JAH love, protect us (repeat)

Rastaman vibration yeah! Positive
I and I vibration yeah! Irie ites
I a man iration yeah! Irie ites
Vibes, got to have a good vibe
Picking up.
Are you picking up now (repeat)

Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh
Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh

Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you

Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Good Lord, hear me
Good Lord, hear me

I'm gonna put it on, I put it on already
I'm gonna put it on, and it was steady
I'm gonna put it on, put it on again
Good lord, help me
Good lord, help me

I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
Feel like toastin'
Feel like toastin'

I rule my destiny, yeah
I rule my destiny
I rule my destiny
Lord, I thank you, yeah
Lord, I thank you

No more cryin'
No more cryin'
No more cryin'
Good Lord, hear me
Good Lord, hear me

I'm gonna put it on
Said, I put it on already
I'm gonna put it on, and it was really, really steady
I'm gonna put it on, right now I put it on again
Good lord, help me

Arriba

Hey Mr Music
Sure feels good to me
And I can't refuse it
What to be got to be
Feel like dancing
Dance cause we are free

I've got my home
In the promised land
And I feel like home
I want you to understand

Though the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if we're lucky
Together we'll always be

Highway riding
Zion is rising
Zion is rising
The moon is rising

Though the road is rocky
Sure feels good to me
And if we're lucky
Together we'll always be

Highway riding
Zion is rising
Zion is rising
The moon is rising

Rainbow Country
Rainbow Country
Rainbow Country
It's a Rainbow Country

I hear the words of the rasta man say:
"Babylon, your throne gone down, gone down,
Babylon, your throne gone down."

Said I hear the words of the higher man say:
"Babylon, your throne gone down, gone down,
Babylon, your throne gone down."

And I hear the angel with the seven seals:
"Babylon, your throne's gone down, gone down,
Babylon, your throne gone down."

I say fly away home to Zion, fly away home.
I say fly away home to Zion, fly away home.
One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.

One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
One brlght morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.

I say fly away home to zion, fly away home.
I say fly away to zion, fly away home.
One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.

Arriba

Rastaman live up, Bongoman don't give up
Congoman live up, Bingyman don't give up
Keep your culture, don't be afraid
Of the vulture, grow your dreadlock
Don't be afraid of the wolf pack

Rastaman live up, Bingyman don't give up
Congoman live up, Bongoman don't give up

David slew Goliath with a sling and a stone
Samson slew the Philistines with a donkey jawbone
Iyaman live up, Rastaman don't give up
Bingyman live up, Congoman don't give up

Trodding thru creation, in a irie meditation
Seen many visions, in a this yah armageddon
Rastaman live up, Congoman don't give up
Rastaman live up, Natty Dread no give up

Saw it in the beginning
So shall it be in this iwa (time)
And they fallen in confusion
Well a just a step from Babel Tower
Rastaman live up, Congoman no give up (repeat)

Grow your dreadlocks
Don't be afraid of the wolf pack
A tell you, one man a walking
And a billion man a sparking

Rastaman live up, Bingyman don't give up
Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up

Ah! Ya too rude
Oh what a rat race
Oh what a rat race
This is the rat race

Some a lawful, some a bastard
Some a jacket
Oh what a rat race, rat race

Some a gorgan, some a hooligan
Some a guine-gog
In this rat race, yeah!
Rat race
I'm singing
When the cats away
The mice will play
Political violence fill ya city
Yea-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A
Rat race, rat race, rat race

When you think its peace and safety
A sudden destruction
Collective security for surety
Yeah!
Don't forget your history
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty
Rat race, rat race, rat race

Oh it's a disgrace to see the
Human-race in a rat race, rat race
You got the horse race
You got the dog race
You got the human-race
But this is a rat race, rat race

Check out the real situation
Nation war against nation
Where did it all begin, when will it end
Well it seems like total destruction
The only solution
And there ain't no use
No one can stop them now
Ain't no use nobody can stop them now

Give them an inch they take a yard
Give them yard they take a mile
Once a man and twice a child
And everything is just for a while
It seems like total destruction
The only solution
And there ain't no use
No one can stop them now
Ain't no use no one can stop them now 
Ain't no use no one can stop them now 
Ain't no use no one can stop them now 

Check in the real situation
Check it out, check it out
Nation fight against nation
Where did it all begin, where will it end
Well it seems like total destruction
The only solution
No use can't stop them
Ain't no use can't stop them
Ain't no use no one can't stop them now
Can't stop them now
Ain't no use no one can stop them now
Ain't no use you even try
Ain't no use got to say bye bye
Ain't no use no one can stop them now
No one can stop them now

I, rebel music
I, rebel music
Why can't we roam this open country
Oh, why can't we be what we want to be?
We want to be free

3 o'clock roadblock, curfew
And I've got to throw away
Yes I've got to throw away
A yes-a I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk

I, yeah, I'm tellin' you, rebel music
I, rebel music

Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock roadblock
And "Hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
(What ya sayin' down there?)
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."

I, rebel music
I, rebel music
Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock - roadblock
And "Hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
(What ya sayin' down there?)
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."

Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I 
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
Redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom    

Revelation reveals the truth, revelation.
(Revolution, revolution, revolution, oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo)
(Revolution, oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo)

It takes a revolution (revolution) to make a solution,
(Doo-doo-doo-doo)
Too much confusion (aaa-aaah), so much frustration, eh!
I don't wanna live in the park (live in the park),
Can't trust no shadows after dark (shadows after dark), yeah-eh!
So, my friend, I wish that you could see,
Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free, yeah! (free)

Never make a politician (aaa-aaah) grant you a favour,
(Doo-doo-doo-doo)
They will always want (aaa-aaah) to control you forever, eh!
(Forever, forever)
So if a fire make it burn (make it burn, make it burn)
And if a blood make ya run (make ya run, run, run),
Rasta de 'pon top (aaa-aaah), can't you see? (doo-doo-doo-doo)
So you can't predict the flop, eh-eh! (doo-doo-doo-doo)

We got lightning (lightning), thunder (thunder),
Brimstone (brimstone) and fire - fire (fire, fire),
Lightning (lightning), thunder (thunder),
Brr-brimstone (brimstone) and fire, fiyah, fire, fiyah!
(Fire, fire)

Kill, cramp and paralyze all weak at conception,
(Aaa-aaah, doo-doo-doo-doo)
Wipe them out of creation (creation), yeah-eah! (creation)
Wa-JAH, JAH, JAH, wa-JAH, JAH, JAH! (creation)
Wa-JAH, JAH, JAH! (creation)

Oh, let i'es is i'es (i'es), in i'es is black (i'es),
In i'es is red (i'es), in i'es is dread.

Let righteousness cover the earth
Like the water (aaa-aaah) cover the sea, yeah, yeah!

Lightning (lightning), doo-doo-doo (thunder),
Doo-doo-doo (brimstone), doo-doo-doo (fire, fire),
A lightning (lightning), thunder (thunder),
Brimstone (brimstone) and fire.

Dready got a job to do
And he's got to fulfill that mission
To see his hurt is their
Greatest ambition
But we will survive
In this world of competition
'Cause no matter what they do
Natty keep on coming thru
And no matter what they say
Natty de deh every day

Natty dread rides again
Thru the mystics of tomorrow
Natty dread rides again
Having no fear, having no sorrow

All and all you can see a gwan
Is to fight against the rastaman
So they build their world
In great confusion
To force us in the devil's illusion
But the stone that the builder refuse
Shall be the head cornerstone
And no matter what games they play
There is something they could
Never take away
Something they could never take away
And it's the fire, it's the fire, fire
Burning down everything
Feel the fire, fire, the fire, the fire
Only the birds have wings
No time to be deceived
You should know and not believe
JAH says this judgment
Could never be with water
So no water could put out this fire
This this fire, this this fire
This this fire ride Natty ride
Go deh Dready, go deh Dready, go deh

Now the fire is burning
Out of control panic in the city
Wicked weeping for their gold
Everywhere the fire is burning
Destroying and melting their gold
Destroying and wasting their souls

Ride Natty ride
Go deh Dready, go deh Dready
Go deh Dready, go deh

Now the people gather on the beach
And the leader try to make a speech
But dread again tell them it's too late
Fire is burning
Man pull your own weight
Fire is burning
Man pull your own weight

Natty dread rides again
Go deh Dready, go deh Dready go deh
Oh ride Natty ride    
Natty dread rides again
Go deh Dready, go deh, go deh Dready go deh
Riding thru the storm
And we're riding thru the calm
Go deh, go deh
We riding thru the thick
We riding thru the thin
Ride Natty, ride Natty

You've been riding
You've been riding quite a while, child
     (keep on riding, keep on riding)
You've been jiving
Like a peacock, that's your style
     (keep on jiving), ooh (keep on jiving)

Now I remember the days in school
There wasn't a time when you didn't treat me cruel
Ooh, wait till I get my hooks on you
I'll show you what a fisherman can do

You're riding
Been riding quite a while, child
     (keep on riding, keep on riding)
You've been jiving
Like a peacock, that's your style
     (keep on jiving), ooh-wee (keep on jiving)

I say now, you always try to hurt me in the end
In the presence of all our good, good friends
But the patient man always win
Now I'll just wait till you give in

You've been riding
You've been riding quite a while
     (keep on riding), keep on, ride (keep on riding)
You've been jiving
Like a peacock, that's your style
     (keep on jiving ...), ooh-wee, alright (... on jiving)

At Christmas, more like an Easter bunny
Just like a rabbit, you're always on the run
But wait till I get my trap on you
I'll see where you gonna run to
Wait till I get my trap on you
Then I'll see where you gonna run to

You've been riding
You've been riding quite a while
     (keep on riding), keep on, ride (keep on riding)
You've been jiving
Like a peacock, that's your style
     (keep on jiving), ooh-wee (keep on jiving)

(So riding on my own) I need your love tonight
(Riding on my own) A-when you hold me right ...

Baby, baby, we've got a date (ooh-hoo, ooh-hoo)
Oh, baby, baby, don't you be late. Oh, baby!

I'll meet you at your house at a quarter to eight. (ooh-hoo, ooh-hoo)
Oh, darlin', baby, baby, just you have some faith!
I promise you, we're gonna (rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
To (rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
Gonna (rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
Baby, (rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight).

Wo-oh, na na-na, na na-na, na na!

Oh, we walk through the pale moonlight
With our love that is right.
Oh, my, my, my, ye-ah!

Oh, so happy we will be,
Sharing the love tha-y is free!

(Got to get together, babe, tonight!)
Oh, darlin', say we got to get together, baby, (tonight)
Say we got to get together, babe, (tonight). Get together, babe!
Got to get together, babe, (tonight)!

Baby, we've got a date, don't you remember?
Baby, baby, don't you be late. Please don't forget:
I'll meet you at your house at a quarter to eight. Oh, baby!
Baby, baby, just you have some faith! Wo, now!
Say we gonna rock it, rockin'!
(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight.)
Say we (rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight).
We gonna (rock it, baby), wo! (Rock it, baby, tonight.)
Say we (rock it, baby) eh! (Rock it, baby, tonight.)
Say we got to get together, babe, (tonight).
Baby, baby, wo! (Say we got to get together, babe, tonight!)
Say we got to get together, babe, (tonight). Are you sure ...?
(Say we got to get together, babe, tonight). Wo!

(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
Gonna (rock it, baby), baby, (Rock it, baby, tonight!)
Eh! (Rock it, baby( oh, baby! (Rock it, baby, tonight!)
Oh! (Got to get together, babe, tonight!)
Got to get together, babe, (tonight).
Say we (got to get together, babe, tonight).
(Got to get together, babe) Eh! Oh-oh, baby! (tonight)

Oh, baby, baby, we've got that date
(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight)
Baby, baby, don't you be late!
(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight
Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight!) Oh, now!
I'll meet you at your house at a quarter to eight.
(Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight,
Rock it, baby, rock it, baby, tonight!)
Oh, darlin'!

Roots Natty roots
Dread Binghi dread
I and I are the roots
Some are the dry wood

Fe catch up the fire
Whoa, look at that
They need some dry wood
To cook up the raw food
Whoa, look at that

I got to survive
Inna dis man maniac downpression
Got to survive
In iration, yeah

Roots Natty roots
Dread Binghi dread
Remember that I and I are the roots

Some are wolf
Inna sheep's clothing
Whoa, look at that
Many are called
But only a few are chosen
Whoa, look at that
Nothing that dividers can do
Can't seperate us from our father
Whoa, look at that
You see, blood is thicker than water
Whoa, look at that

Got to survive
Inna disyah ghetto, yeah
Roots Natty roots
Dread Binghi dread
Remember that I and I are the roots
Roots Natty roots
Dread Binghi dread
Whoa, I and I are the roots
Some are leaves
While some are branches
But remember I and I are the roots
Some are dry wood
Fe catch up the fire
Whoa, look at that

Got to survive
Inna dis man maniac downpression
Got to survive
In iration
Roots Natty roots
Dread Binghi dread
Hey, I and I are the roots
Ooh we, roots Natty roots
Dread Binghi dread
Oh Yeah, I and I are the roots

Play I some music, this a reggae music
Play I some music, this a reggae music
Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music
Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music

Hey Mister Music, sure sounds good to me
I can't refuse it, what to be got to be
Feel like dancing, dance cause we are free
Feel like dancing, come dance with me

Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music
Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music
Play I some music, this a reggae music
Play I some music, this a reggae music

Play I on the R&B, want all my people to see
We bubbling on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread
(repeat)

Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music
Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music
Play I some music, this a reggae music
Play I some music, this a reggae music

You running and you running
And you running away (repeat)

You running and you running
But you can't run away from yourself
Can't runaway from yourself,
Can't runaway from yourself,
Can't runaway from yourself (repeat)

You must have done,
Something wrong (repeat)
Why you can't find the
Place where you belong
Running away, running away,
Running away (repeat)

Every man thinketh his
Burden is the heaviest (repeat)
But who feels it knows it Lord
Who feels it knows it Lord,
Who feels it knows it Lord

You running and you running
And you running away (repeat)

You running and you running
But you can't runaway from yourself,
Could you runaway from yourself,
Can you runaway from yourself
Can't runaway from yourself,
Can't runaway from yourself

You must have done, something,
Something, something something,
Something, you don't want nobody to
Know about, you must have ... Lord.
Something wrong you must have done,
You must have done, something wrong
Why you can't find where you belong

Well, well, well, you running away,
Running away, no, no, no,
I'm not running away, don't say that
Don't say that, cause I'm not running away
I've got to protect my life,
And I don't want to live with no strife
It is better to live on the house top
Than to live in a house full of confusion
So, I made my decision and I left you
Now you coming to tell me
That I'm running away
But it's not true,
I am not running away

Oh! please don't you rock my boat
Cause I don't want my boat to be rocking
Don't rock my boat (repeat)

I'm telling you that, oh, whooh-whooh
I like it, like this, I like it like this
And you should know, you should know by now
I like it, I like it like this, I like it like this
Yeah! you satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
You satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
Every little action, there is a reaction
Oh can't you see, what you have done for me
I am happy inside, all, all of the time

When we bend a new corner
I feel like a sweep-stake winner
When I meet you around the corner
You make me feel like, a sweep-stake winner
Whoa child, can't you see, you must believe me
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see, why won't you believe me
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling

When I meet you around the corner
Oh I said baby, never let me be a loner
And then you hold me tight, you make me feel alright
Yes when you hold me tight, you made me feel alright

Whoa honey can't you see, don't you believe me
Oh, darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see, why won't you believe me
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling

Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
That's all I want from you, that's all I'll take from you
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul

My woman is gone, my woman is gone

She had left me a note, hanging on my door
She say she couldn't take it, she couldn't take any more
The pressure around me, just couldn't see
She felt like a prisoner, who needs to be free
Fools have tried, wisemen have failed
Oh listen to me honey, life could never be another jail
Still we know now, we'll never see smoke without fire
And everyone you see, has a heart desire

She's gone, she's gone, she's gone she's gone
Oh mocking bird have you ever heard,
Words that I never heard (repeat)

She made thru the exit, she just couldn't take it
She made thru the exit, she just couldn't make it
Oh my children, if you see my crying
My woman is gone
If you see me, if you see me, if you see me, if you see me crying (repeat)

She's gone, she's gone, she's gone yeah!
Oh mocking bird have you ever heard
Words that I never heard (repeat)
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone

Uhhhh Uhhhhh
Mmmmm Mmmmm
Let me tell you brother
Shocks of mighty [don't you, don't you know you know]
We've got the rhythm
Shocks of mighty [don't you, don't you, don't you know]
We've got the rhythm [uh, uhh]
Do the funky chicken [oh brother]
Do the alligator
Do the mashed potato
[Oh] A long, as long as we do it together
Let me tell you brother
Shocks of mighty [oh brother, don't you know we got the rhythm]
	[Sing it brother]
Shocks of mighty [Aaaw, yes we got the rhythm.  Uh, huh]
Get yourself together [ooo]
Brother, in any kind of weather [let me tell you]
It will be mighty better 
[ooo, as long, as long as we do it together, ooo-eee. Uh]
Shocks of mighty 
[don't, don't you don't you know we got the rhythm. Lord have mercy]
Shocks of mighty [don't you, don't you know we got the rhythm]
Do the funky chicken
The mashed potato [let me tell you]
Do the, do the, do what you want to do [do it all together now. Uh]
Shocks of mighty [do, don't you, don't you know we got the rhythm]
Shocks of mighty [do, don't you, don't you know we got the rhythm]
Get yourself together [oh brother]
In any kind of weather
Things will be mighty better [yooouuu]
Lord we got to, to get together [get it together y'all]
And do the funky chicken [things. Oh yeah. Uh]
Do the, do the, do the mashed potato [ooo]
Do the alligator [do what you want to do]
But do it all together now [oh]
Shocks of mighty [ooo]
Don't you know we got the rhythm
Shocks of mighty
Don't you know we got the rhythm

Simmer down, you lickin' too hot, so
Simmer down, soon you'll get dropped, so
Simmer down, can you hear what I say
Simmer down, that why won't you, why won't you, why won't you simmer down
Simmer down
Long time people dem used to say
What sweet nanny goat a go run him belly, so
Simmer down, oh control your temper
Simmer down, for the battle will be hotter
Simmer down, can you hear what I say
Simmer down, oh that I'm a leaving you today
Simmer down

Simmer down, oh you hear what I say
Simmer down, a that I'm leaving you today
Simmer down, can you hear what I say
Simmer down

Chicken Mary, hawk de near and when him de near, you must beware, so
Simmer down, oh control your temper
Simmer down, for the battle will be hotter
Simmer down, and you won't get no supper
Simmer down, and you know you bound to suffer
Simmer down, simmer, simmer, simmer right down
Simmer down, like you never did before
Simmer down, oh, oh, oh
Simmer down, can you hear what I say
Simmer down, you lickin' too hot so
Simmer down, and you know soon you'll get dropped, so
Simmer down, why won't you simmer, simmer down
Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down
Simmer down, simmer, simmer down
Simmer down, oh simmer, simmer down
Simmer down, like you never did before...

Uh yeah, uh yeah, uh yeah

Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
All along the day

You run to the sea, the was boiling
You run to the sea, the was boiling 
You run to the sea, the was boiling 
All along the day

You run to the rock, the rock was melting
You run to the rock, the rock was melting
You run to the rock, the rock was melting
All along the day

Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too

Come to the Lord, Lord want to hide me
You run to the Lord, Lord want to hide me
You run to the Lord, Lord want to hide me
All along the day

Oh Lord says "Sinner Man, you should be praying"
The Lord says "Sinner Man, you should be praying"
The Lord says "Sinner Man, you should be praying"
All along the day

You run to the devil, the devil was waiting
You run to the devil, the devil was waiting
You run to the devil, the devil was waiting
All along the day

[So I say now]

Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
Oh sinner man, I wanna now, you gonna run [were you gonna run too]
Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too
All along the day

I wanna now, now, now, now, now

Oh sinner man, were you gonna run too

Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh. Oo-oo-ooh! Oo-oo-ooh.
Slave driver, the table is turned (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burned (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turned (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, you're gonna get burned (catch a fire)

Ev'ry time I hear the crack of the whip
My blood runs cold
I remember on the slave ship
How they brutalised our very souls
Today they say that we are free
Only to be chained in poverty
Good God, I think it's all illiteracy
It's only a machine that make money

Slave driver, the table is turned

Slave driver, the table is turned baby now (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burned baby now (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turned (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burned (catch a fire)

Ev'ry time I hear the crack of the whip
My blood runs cold
I remember on the slave ship
How they brutalised our very souls

Oh God, have mercy on our souls

Slave driver, the table is turned (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burned (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turned, y'all (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burned (catch a fire)

Why boasteth thyself, oh evil men,
Playing smart and not being clever?
I say you're working iniquity to achieve vanity, yeah,
But the goodness of JAH JAH endureth forever.

If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe.
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.

These are the words of my master.
Keep on telling me
No weak heart shall prosper,
Oh, no they can't.

And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord,
Shall fall in it, shall fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit shall bury in it,
Shall bury in it.

If you are the big tree, 
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.

And whosoever diggeth a pit shall fall in it, fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit shall bury in it, shall bury in it.

If you have a big tree, 
We have a small axe
Ready to cut you down, 
Sharpened to cut you down.

If you are the big tree,
we are the small axe
Ready to cut you down,
Sharpened to cut you down.

So JAH seh,
Not one of my seeds
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg bread.
(No they can't and you know that they won't)

So JAH seh,
Not one of my seeds
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg your bread.
(No they can't and you know that they won't)
And verily, verily,
I'm singing unto thee, 'I
Inite oneself and love imanity
'Cause puss and dog get together
What's wrong with loving one another
'Cause puss and dog they get together
What's wrong with you my brother

So JAH seh
Ye are the sheep of my pasture
So verily, thou shall be very well
So JAH seh. yeah
Ye are the sheep of my pasture
So verily, thou shall be very well, yeah

And down here in the ghetto
And down here we suffer
I and I a hang on in there
And I and I, I naw leggo
I and I a hang on in there
And I and I, I naw leggo

For so JAH seh
I'm going to prepare a place
That where I am thou shall abide
So JAH seh
Fear not for mighty dread
'Cause I'll be there at your side

And down there, down there in the ghetto
And down there, we suffer
But I and hang on in there
And I and I, I naw leggo
So JAH seh

Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Ooh yeah, yeah!
They got so much things to say right now,
They got so much things to say.
They got so much things to say right now,
They got so much things to say.

Eh! But I'll never forget no way, they crucified Jesus Christ,
I'll never forget no way, they stole Marcus Garvey for rights, oo-ooh!
I'll never forget no way, they turned their back on Paul Bogle, hey-ey!
So don't you forget (no way) your youth,
Who you are and where you stand in the struggle.

They go so very, so very, so very, so very, so very, so very,
So very, so very, so very, so very, so very,
Everything they say, so much to say,
They got so much things to say, so much things to say.

I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood,
But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places.
So while they fight you down,
Stand firm and give JAH thanks and praises.
'Cos I'n'I no expect to be justified
by the laws of men, by the laws of men.
Oh, true they have found me guilty,
But through, through JAH proved my innocency.

Oh, when the rain fall, fall, fall now,
It don't fall on one man's housetop, remember that,
When the rain fall,
It don't fall on one man's housetop.

They singin': so very much, so very much, oh so very much, so very, very,
They got so much things to say right now,
Yeah, they got so much things to say.

Hey, but I'n'I, I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood,
But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places.
So while, so while, so while they fight you down,
Stand firm and give JAH thanks and praises.
I'n'I no expect to be justified
By the laws of men, by the laws of men.
Oh, hey through JAH to prove my innocency,
I told you wicked think they found me guilty.

They got la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
They "la" very much all the time.

So much things to say, rumour about,
They got so much without humour,
They don't know what they're doin', yeah.

So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now

Bless my eyes this morning
JAH sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly things are going
Anything can happen

You see men sailing on their ego trips
Blast off on their spaceships
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me

So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now
All you got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little
One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah!

So you think you have found the solution
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out your tide
Don't leave another cornerstone standing there behind
We've got to face the day
Ooh we come what may
We the street people talking
We the people struggling

Now they are sitting on a time bomb
Now I know the time has come
What goes on up is coming on down
Goes around and comes around

So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble in the world

Hey happy people, this here is something new
I know you're gonna like it
So let me tell you what we're gonna do
Souls almighty [uh]
Don't you know we got the rhythm
Souls almighty [oh]
We are willing
Funky, Funky Chicken [ooh]
And the Mashed Potato
Do the Alligator
Let's do it together
Souls almighty
Do you dig me ya'll
Souls almighty, my soul is raw
[ooh-ee yeah]
Get yourself together
In any kind of weather
Things will be mighty better
If you get it together [witness]
Souls almighty [ooh]
Don't you know we got the rhythm
Souls almighty [exactly when baby]
[You're not with him]
Get yourself, yourself together
In any kind of weather [I'll come home baby]
Things will be mighty better
If we, if we get it together
Souls, don't you know we got the rhythm
Hit it brother
Souls Almighty 
O' baby, when you're not with him
Funky, Funky Chicken
And the Mashed Potato [oh]
Do the Alligator
Do it together ya'll [uh]
Shocks of [mighty]
Souls and shocks, souls and shocks
We got, we got, we got the rhythm
Sing your song brother
My baby's with him, ooh
Get yourself together
In any kind of weather
Things will be mighty better

I'm a rebel, soul rebel.
I'm a capturer, soul adventurer.
I'm a rebel, soul rebel.
I'm a capturer, soul adventurer.

See the morning sun, the morning sun,
On the hillside.
If you're not living good, travel wide,
You gotta travel wide.
Said I'm a living man,
And I've got work to do.
If you're not happy, children,
Then you must be blue,
Must be blue, people say.

I'm a rebel, let them talk,
Soul rebel, talk won't bother me.
I'm a capturer, that'w what they say,
Soul adventurer, night and day.
I'm a rebel, soul rebel.
Do you hear them lippy.
I'm a capturer, gossip around the corner,
Soul adventurer.  How they adventure on me.

But, see the morning sun, the morning sun,
On the hillside.
If you're not living good, travel wide,
You gotta travel wide.
Said I'm a living man,
I've got work to do.
If you're not happy, then you must be blue,
Must be blue, people say.

I'm a rebel, soul rebel.
I'm a capturer, soul adventurer.
Do you hear me?
I'm a rebel, rebel in the morning.
Soul rebel, rebel at midday time.

We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight

The way you love me
It's all right
When you put your lovin' arms around me
And you hold me tight 
(hold me tight)

This is my invitation 
I've got the special vacation
I need your concentration
Just to feel your vibration

(At that) soul shakedown party tonight
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight

Jane is in the backyard
Doing the outside dance

From telling me the other day
She didn't even get a chance

But this is my invitation 
I've got the special vacation
I need your concentration
Just to feel your vibration

Baby I need you tonight
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight

The way you love me
It's all right
When you put your lovin' arms around me
And you hold me tight 
(Hold me tight)
This is my invitation 
I've got the special vacation
I need your concentration
Just to feel your vibration

(At that) soul shakedown party tonight
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight

There you are, cryin' again
But your loveliness won't cover your shame
There you are, you're takin' true love
And while you're takin' true love, you given the blame

(How could I ...) Could I be so wrong
To think that we could get along?
Days I wasted with you, child
If I count there'll be a million or two
Now I stand alone through the memories
That haunts me, that haunt
Yeah, and I walk alone through the rhapsodies
That taunts me, that taunts me, me

There you are, cryin' again
But your loveline-ness won't cover your shame
There you are, you're takin' true love
And while you're takin' true love, given the blame

(How could I ...) How could I be so wrong
To think that we could get along?
Days I wasted with you, child
If I count there'll be a million or two
Now I stand alone through the memories
That haunts me, that haunts (... me)
And I walk alone through the rhapsodies
That taunts me, that taunts me

Now, there you are, cryin' again
But your loveline-ness won't cover your sham-ame, hey
There you are, you're takin' true lo-love
While you're takin' true lo-love, given the blame

(How could I ...) How could I ...

Stiff necked fools, you think you're cool
To deny me for simplicity
Yes you have gone, for so long
With your love for vanity now
Yes you have got the wrong interpretation
Mixed up with vain imagination

So take JAH Sun, and JAH Moon
And JAH Rain and JAH Stars
And forever yes erase your fantasy, yeah

The lips of the righteous, teach many
But fools die for want of wisdom
The rich man's wealth is in his city
The righteous wealth is in his Holy Place

So take JAH Sun, and JAH Moon
And JAH Rain and JAH Stars
And forever, yes erase your fantasy
Destruction of the poor is in their poverty
Destruction of the soul is vanity, yea

So stiff necked fools, you think you're cool
To deny me for simplicity, yeah, yeah
Yes you have gone, gone for so long
With your love for vanity now

But I don't wanna rule ya
I don't wanna fool ya
I don't wanna school ya
Things you, you might never know about

Yes you have got the wrong interpretation
Mixed up with vain, vain imagination
Stiff necked fools, you think you're cool
To deny me for, ooh simplicity

Stir it up, little darling, stir it up
Come on, baby, come on and stir it up, little darling, stir it up

It's been a long, long time
Since I've got you on my mind
And now you are here
I say, it's so clear
To see what we can do, honey, just me and you

Come on and stir it up, little darling, stir it up
Come on baby, come on and stir it up, little darling, stir it up

I'll push the wood
I'll blaze your fire
Then I'll satisfy your heart's desire
Said I'll stir it up, yeah, ev'ry minute, yeah
All you got to do is keep it in, baby

And stir it up, little darling, stir it up
Come on and stir it up, ooh, little darling, stir it up, yeah

Oh, will you quench me while I'm thirsty?
Come and cool me down when I'm hot?
Your recipe, darling, is so tasty
And you sure can stir your pot
So stir it up, little darling, stir it up
Come on and stir it up, ooh, little darling, stir it up
Come on and stir it up, oh, little darling, stir it up

Little darling, stir it up
Come on and stir it up, little darling, stir it up

Stop that train, I'm leavin', today!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', anyway!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', and I said
It won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong,
I said, it won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong.

All my good life I've been a lonely man,
Teachin' my people who don't understand,
And even though I tried my best,
I still can't find no happiness.

So I got to say
Stop that train, I'm leavin', oh, baby now!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', don't care what you say!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', and I said
It won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong,
Said, it won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong.

Some goin' east, and-a some goin' west,
Some stand aside to try their best.
Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small,
They just can't even find no food at all.

I mean, stop it,
Stop that train, I'm leavin', leavin', mm-hmm.
Stop that train, I'm leavin', I don't mind!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', and I said
It won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong,
I said it won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong.

Stop that train, I'm leavin', leavin'!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', can't take it!
Stop that train, I'm leavin', got to be better!
It won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong,
I said it won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong.

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know ya, where I stand

(Monday morning) here I am
Want you to know just if you can
(Tuesday evening) where I stand
(Wednesday morning) tell myself a new day is rising
(Thursday evening) get on the rise a new day is dawning
(Friday morning) here I am
(Saturday evening) want you to know just
Want you to know just where I stand

When the morning gathers the rainbow
Want you to know I'm a rainbow too
So, to the rescue here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand, know, know, know, know, know

We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises
We'll lift our heads and give JAH praises, yeah

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand, know, know, know, where I stand

Monday morning, scoo-be-doop-scoop-scoop
Tuesday evening, scoo-be-doop-scoop-scoop
Wednesday morning, scoo-be-doop-scoop-scoop
Thursday evening, scoo-be-doop-scoop-scoop
Friday morning, scoo-be-doop-scoop-scoop
Saturday evening, scoo-be-doop-scoop-scoop

So to the rescue, to the rescue, to the rescue
Awake from your sleep and slumber
Today could be your lucky number
Sun is shining and the weather is sweet

How can you be sitting there 
Telling me that you care
That you care
When everytime I look around
The people suffer in suffering
In everyway, in everywhere

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival

I tell you what
Some people got everything
Some poeple got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got ways and means

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival
Yes we're the survivors like
Daniel out of the lions' den, survivors, survivors

So my brethren, my sisthren
Which way will we choose
We better hurry, oh hurry woe now
'Cause we got no time to lose

Some people got facts and claims
Some peole got pride and shame
Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival
We're the survivors like shadrach, meshach and abednego
Thrown in the fire but never get burn

So my brethren, my sisthren
The preaching and talking is done
We gotta live up woe now, woe now
'Cause the father's time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people can't stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long

Na-na-na-na-na
We're the survivors, a black survival
In this age of technological inhumanity
We're the survivors black survival
Scientific atrocity, we're the survivors
Atomic mis-philosophy, we're the survivors
Nuclear mis-energy
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity
All together now we're the survivors
Yes, the black survival
A good man is never honoured in his own country, black survival
Nothing change, nothing strange
Nothing change, nothing strange
We got to survive, we've got to survive
But to live as one equal in the eyes of the almighty

Yeah, oh yeah, no!
Cold ground was my bed last night
And rock was my pillow too
Cold ground was my bed last night
And rock was my pillow too, yeah

I'm sayin talkin' blues, talkin' blues 
They say your feet is just too big for your shoes
Talkin' blues, talkin' blues
Your feet is just too big for your shoes

I've been down on the rock so long
I seem to wear a permanent screw, yeah
I've been down on the rock so long
I seem to wear a permanent screw 
But I'm gonna stare in the sun
Let the rays shine in my eyes
I'm gonna take a just a one step more
Cause I feel like bombing a church, now
Now that you know that the preacher is lying

So who's gonna stay at home
When, when the freedom fighters are fighting
Talkin' blues, talkin' blues
They say your feet is just too big for your shoes, whoa
Talkin' blues, keep on, talkin' blues
They say, you hear what they say, didn't you hear?

Cold ground was my bed last night
Rock stone, rock stone, rock stone was my pillow
Cold ground was my bed last night
And rock was my pillow too

Sayin talkin' blues, talkin' blues
I seem to wear a permanent, permanent screw
Talkin' blues, talkin' blues
They say your feet is just too big for your shoes  

Thank you, Lord, for what you've done for me.
Thank you, Lord, for what you're doing now.
Thank you, Lord, for ev'ry little thing.
Thank you, Lord, for you made me sing.

Say I'm in no competition,
But I made my decision.
You can keep your opinion.
I'm just calling on the wise man's communion.

Thank you, Lord, for what you've done for me.
Thank you, Lord, for what you're doing now.
Thank you, Lord, for ev'ry little thing.
Thank you, Lord, for you made me sing.

Sing along, sing along.

I don't fear their humiliation,
Just to prove my determination.
I don't yield to temptation,
I haven't learn't my lesson in Revelation.

Thank you, Lord, for what you've done for me.
Thank you, Lord, for what you're doing now.
Thank you, Lord, for ev'ry little thing.
Thank you, Lord, for you made me sing.

Sing along, sing along.

Say I'm in no competition
But I made my decision,
Lord, in my simple way.
Comin', comin', comin', comin'.
I love to pray.

Thank you, Lord, for what you've done for me.
Thank you, Lord, for what you're doing now.
Thank you, Lord, for ev'ry little thing.

De heathen back dey 'pon de wall!
De heathen back, yeah, 'pon de wall!
De heathen back dey 'pon de wall!
De heathen back, yeah, 'pon de wall!

Rise up fallen fighters
Rise and take your stance again.
'Cause he who fight and run away
Live to fight another day.

JAH put the heathen back
There upon the wall
JAH JAH put the heathen back
There 'pon the wall

As a man sow, shall he reap
And I know that talk is cheap.
So the hotter the battle
Is the sweeter JAH victory.

Rise up freedom fighters
Rise and take your stance again.
'Cause he who fight and run away
Live to fight another day.

JAH put the heathen back
There 'pon the wall
JAH JAH put the heathen back
There 'pon the wall

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is a angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough
You're gonna dance to JAH music, dance
We're gonna dance to JAH music, dance
Forget your troubles and dance
Forget your sorrow and dance
Forget your sickness and dance
Forget your weakness and dance
Cost of living get so high
Rich and poor, they start a cry
Now the weak must get strong
They say, "oh, what a tribulation"

Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is a angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough
We're gonna chuck to JAH music, chuckin'
We're chuckin' to JAH music, we're chuckin'

A belly full but them hungry
A angry mob is a angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough

A angry man is a angry man
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough
(repeat)
A angry mob is a angry mob

There she goes
With the pieces from my heart
There she goes
And now my tear drops start

And here I go once again
Through these lonely heartaches and pain
That's all remains, all remains
Now I know love is a guessing game

She goes
With the pieces from my heart
There she goes
And now my tear drops start

Who's gonna put back the pieces
To my broken heart?
Once again, once again
Now I know this could be the end

And she goes
With the pieces from my heart
There she goes, let me tell ya,
And now my tear drops start

And here I go once again
Through these lonely heartaches and pain
That's all remains
Now I know this could be the end

She goes
With the pieces from my heart
There she goes
And now my tear drops start

There she goes
With the pieces from my heart

When I was just a kid, little children,
My old man used to sing a song.
And now I've grown to be a man
It still lingers deep within my soul,
Lingers deep within my soul.

He say now, this train is bound to glory, this train.
This train is bound to glory, this train.
This train it is bound to glory,
This train it don't carry no unholy.
This train is bound to glory, this train.

Now, this train it don't carry no backsliders, this train.
This train don't carry no backsliders, this train.
This train it don't carry no backsliders,
This train only carry JAH JAH children.
This train it is bound to glory, this train.

Play a little song for me.

This train don't carry no unholy, this train.
This train don't carry no unholy, this train.
This train it don't carry no unholy,
This train only carry the children of JAH.
This train it is bound to glory, this train.

So many things to remember,
So many things to forget.
But these words they do linger,
Linger deep within my soul,
Lingers deep within my soul.

This train is bound to glory, this train.
This train it is bound to glory, this train.
This train it is bound to glory,
This train don't carry no unholy.
This train it is bound to glory, this train.

This train.
This train.
This train.
This train.
This train.

This train is bound to glory.
This train is bound to glory, yau  (repeat)

(adlibbing)

I'll be turning back for no brother, no sister, no friend, no nothing at all.
I'll be grabing the morning train, the evening train will be too late.  (repeat)

Grab on brothers.
Grab on sisters.
Grab on mother.
Grab on father.
Grab on friend.

This train!

Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright
Singin', "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright."

Rise up this morning,
Smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, "This is my message to you-u-u."
Singin'...
(Repeat)

"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be al-right."
(4 times)

JAH would never give the power to a baldhead
Run come crucify the dread

Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell

Back them up, oh not the brothers
But the ones, who set them up

Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell

Oh children weep no more
Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree
Saw you settle the score
Oh children weep no more
Weep no more, children weep no more

JAH would never give the power to a baldhead
Run come crucify the dread

Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell

They don't want to see unite
'Cause all they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us live together
I tell you all they want us to do is
Keep on killing one another

Top rankin', top rankin'
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top rankin'
Are you fooling one another
When you say you wanna come together

They say the blood runs
And it runs thru our lineage
And our hearts, heart of hearts divine

John sey them comin' with the truth
From an ancient time

Brotherly love, sisterly love
I feel this morning
I feel this morning
Brotherly love, sisterly love
I feel this morning

They don't want us to unite
'Cause all they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us come together
All they want us to do is
Keep on killing one another

Top rankin', top rankin'
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top rankin'
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Tpo rankin', did you mean what you say now
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top rankin'
Are you skankin', skankin'

(Scoop, scoop, scoop, scoo-doo, scoop, scoop wa-doo.)

Up a cane river to wash my dread
Upon a rock I rest my head
There I vision through the seas of oppression
Don't make my life a prison

We come from Trench Town, Trench Town
Most of them come from Trench Town
We free the pepole with music, sweet music
Can we free the people with music
Can we free our people with music, with music
With music, oh music

Whoa my head, in desolate places we'll find our bread
And everyone see what's taking place
Whoa-yo another page in history

We come from Trench Town, come from Trench Town
We come from Trench Town
Lord we free the people with music,
We free the people with music, sweet music
We free our people with music
With music, oh music, oh music

They say it's hard to speak
They feel so strong to say we're weak
But through the eyes the love of our people
Whoa-a they go to repay

We come from Trench Town
We come from Trench Town, Trench, Trench Town
They say can anything good come out of Trench Town?
That's what they say, Trench Town
Say we're the underprivileged people
So they keep us in chains
Pay pay pay tribute to Trench Town, Trench Town
We come from Trench Town, not because we come from Trench Town
Just because we come from Trench Town

One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain (repeat)
So hit me with music, hit me with music
Hit me with music, hit me with music now
I got to say trench town rock
I say don't watch that
Trench town rock, big fish or sprat
Trench town rock, you reap what you sow
Trench town rock, and everyone know now
Trench town rock, don't turn your back
Trench town rock, give the slum a try
Trench town rock, never let the children cry
Trench town rock, 'cause you got to tell JAH, JAH 

You grooving Kingston 12, grooving, Kingston 12
Grooving woe, woe, it's Kingston 12
Grooving it's Kingston 12
No want you fe galang so
No want you fe galang so
You want come cold I up
But you can't come cold I up
'Cause I'm grooving, yes I'm grooving

I say one good thing, one good thing
When it hits you feel no pain
One good thing about music
When it hits you feel no pain
So hit me with music 
Hit me with music now
Hit me with music, hit me with music
Look at that
Trench town rock, I say don't watch that
Trench town rock, if you big fish or sprat
Trench town rock, you reap what you sow
Trench town rock, and everyone know now
Trench town rock, don't turn your back
Trench town rock, give the slum a try
Trench town rock, never let the children cry
Trench town rock, 'cause you got to tell JAH, JAH why
Grooving, grooving, grooving, grooving

Try me [try me]
Try me [try me]
Try me [try me]
Try me [try me]

Try me [try me, try me]
Try me [a wah wah wow]
Try me [try me, try me]

When the hurt is strong
And everything you do is wrong
You need someone to comfort you
Well, listen baby, I'll come first to you, so

Try me [try me, try me]
Try me [a wah wah wow]
Try me [try me, try me]
Try me [a wah wah wow]

If you need satisfaction
Listen baby, I've got the action
Where I am, that's where it's at
So, listen baby, it's tit for tat, so

Try me [try me, try me]
Try me [a wah wah wow]
Try me [try me, try me]
Try me [a wah wah wow]

Woo, woo-ooh, woo, woo, woo-ooh
Woo, woo-ooh, woo, woo, woo-ooh
Woo, woo-ooh, woo, woo, woo-ooh
Woo, woo-ooh, woo, woo, woo-ooh

One more thing I'd like to say right here
Try me [try me, try me]
One more thing I'd like to say right here
Try me [try me, try me]

Need good lovin'
I'm black [try me] coming
Yes I'm black [try me] and I'm coming
Try me, try me

Turn your lights down low
And pull your window curtains
Oh let JAH moon come shining in
Into our life again
Sayin' oh it's been a long long long long time
I kept this message for you girl
But it seems I was never on time
Still I wanna get through to you girl
On time
I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good good loving
Oh I oh I oh I
I want to give you some good good loving
Turn your lights down low
Never try to resist oh no
Oh let my love come tumbling in
Into our life again
Saying oh I love you
And I want you to know right now
Oh I love you
And I want you to know right now
Cause I, that I
I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good good lovin
I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good good lovin
Turn your lights down low
Never try to resist oh no
Oh let my love come tumbling in
Into our life again

I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
From the very first time I blessed my eyes on you, girl
My heart says, "Follow through."
But I know now that I'm way down on your line
But the waiting feel is fine
So don't treat me like a puppet on a string
'Cause I know how to do my thing
Don't talk to me as if you think I'm dumb
I wanna know when you're gonna come

See, I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
'Cause it's summer is here
I'm still waiting there
Winter is here and I'm still waiting there
Like I said,
It's been three years since I'm knocking on your door
And I still can knock some more
Ooh, girl, ooh, girl
Is it feasible, I wanna know now
For I to knock some more?

Ya see, in life I know there's lots of grief
But your love is my relief
Tears in my eyes burn
Tears in my eyes burn while I'm waiting
While I'm waiting for my turn.

See, I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
Oh, I don't wanna, I don't wanna
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
No, I don't wanna, I don't wanna
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
I don't wanna wait in vain.

It's your love that I'm waiting on
It's my love that you're running from.
(Repeat) 

Wake up and live ya wake up and live
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live

Life is one big road with lots of signs
So when you riding thru the ruts
Don't complicate your mind

Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts
Put your vision to reality, yeah!

All together now
Wake up and live, wake up and live
Wake up and wake up and live
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live

You see one, one cocoa full a basket
Whey the use you live big today
Tomorrow you bury ina casket
One one cocoa full the basket
Whey the use you live big today
Tomorrow you bury ina casket

All together now
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live keep on playing
Wake up and live now
Wake up and live wake up and live now
Wake up and live break it down

How is it feeling over there
Wake up feeling wake up
Wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, come on man
You got to wake up and Live
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

Now you get, what you want
Do you want more
Now you get, what you want
Do you want more

You think it's the end
But it's just the beginning
You think it's the end
But it's just the beginning
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter

They stab you in the back
And they claim you're not looking
But JAH have them in the region
In the valley of decision
In the valley of decision
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter

Now you get, want you more
Do you want more
Now you get, want you more
Do you want more
You think it's the end
Do you want more

[
What life has taught me
I would like to share with
Those who want to learn...
]

Until the philosophy which holds one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war

That until there is no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war

That until the basic human rights are equally 
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be pursued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
That hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war

War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war

And until that day, the African continent 
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory

Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil

SPEECH BY H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS, THE
CONQUERING LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, CALIFORNIA 28TH FEBRUARY 1968. 

History:

Last May, in Addis Ababa there was convened a meeting of Heads of
African States and Governments. In three days, the thirty-two nations
represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the
will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse
backgrounds can and will work together in unity for the achievement of
common goals and the assurance of that equality and brotherhood which we
desire.

Although our position vis-a-vis the power-blocs is identified with the
policy of non-alignment, our past history testifies to the fact that we
have always endeavored to cooperate with all nations, without exception.
Thus, one of the fundamental principles we have agreed upon at the Addis
Ababa Summit Conference gives expression to our fundamental desire to
live in harmony and cooperation with all States.

On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa Conference
taught, to those who will learn, this further lesson :

        that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and
        another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and
        abandoned; that until there are no longer any first-class and
        second-class citizens of any nation; that until the color of a
        man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his
        eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed
        to all, without regard to race -- until that day, the dreams of
        lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of
        international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to
        be pursued but never attained. And also, that until the ignoble
        and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in
        Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been
        toppled and destroyed; until bigotry and prejudice and
        malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by
        understanding, tolerance and good-will; until all Africans
        stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men as
        they are in Heaven -- until that day the African continent will
        not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary and we
        know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of
        good over evil.

The United Nations has done much, both directly and indirectly, to speed
the disappearance of discrimination and oppression from the earth.
Without the opportunity to focus world opinion on Africa and Asia which
this Organization provides, the goal might, for many, still lie ahead,
and the struggle would have taken far longer. For this we are truly
grateful.

             H.I.M. Haile Selassie I
             18th Season of the General
             Assembly of the United
             Nations, October 4, 1963

We no know how we and them a go work this out
We no know how we and them a go work it out

But someone will have to pay
For the innocent blood
That they shed ever day, oh children mark my word
It's what the bible say yeah! yeah!

We no know how we and them a go work this out
We no know how we and them a go work it out

But in the beginning JAH created everything
He gave man dominion over all things
But now it's too late, you see man have lost their faith
Eating up all the flesh from off the Earth

We no know how we and them a go work this out
We no know how we and them a go work it out

We no know how we and them a go work it out
Them a flesh and bone
We no know how we and them a go work it out

But we have no friends in a high society
We no have friends, oh mark my identity
We no have no friends,

We no know how we and them a go work this out
We no know how we and them a go work it out
We no know how we and them a go work this out
We no know how we and them a go work it out

Man to man is so unjust, children
You don't know who to trust
Your worst enemy could be your best friend
And your best friend your worst enemy

Some will eat and drink with you
Then behind them su-su 'pon you
Only your friend know your secrets
So only he could reveal it
And who the cap fit, let them wear it (repeat)
Said I throw me corn, me no call no fowl
I saying, "Cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"

Some will hate you, pretend they love you now
Then behind they try to eliminate you
But who JAH bless, no one curse
Thank God we're past the worse

Hypocrites and parasites
Will come up and take a bite
And if your night should turn to day
A lot of people would run away
And who the cap fit let them wear it (repeat)

And then a gonna throw me corn
And then a gonna call no fowl
And then a gonna "Cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"

Some will eat and drink with you
And then behind them su-su 'pon you
And if your night should turn to day
A lot of people will run away
And who the cap fit, let them wear it (repeat)
I throw me corn, me no call no fowl
I saying "Cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"

Why should I bend down my head and cry?
Why should I bend down my head and cry?
The old world has ended,
The new world has just begun.
And all them people that live therein
Shall live on and on.
One more thing:
Got to get what I need,
Got to get what I want.
Got to get what I need,
Got to get what I want.
Got to get satisfaction,
Got to get the action.
Got love and affection.
One more thing:

Once there was two roads before us
To pick our choice.
But good has overcome bad.
The sheep has heard their master's voice.
So tell me why.

Why should I bend down my head and cry?
No reason why.
Why should I bend down my head and cry?
(Got to move) Got to groove.

Got to get what I want.
What did you say?
Got to get it.
Got to get what I need.
Got to get it, today now.
Got to get what I want.
Like I say, got to get it.
Got to get what I need...satisfaction.

The old world has ended,
The new world has just begun.
And all them people that live therein
Shall live on and on.
One more thing:

Why should I bend down my head and cry?
My father is a king.
Why should I bend down my head and cry?
All the riches in the earth.
So tell me why,
Why should I bend down my head and cry?

We JAH people can make it work
Come together and make it work
We can make it work
We can make it work

Five days to go working for the next day
Four days to go working for the next day
Say we got three days to go working for the next day
Two days to go working for the next day
Say we got one day to go working for the 
Everyday is work, work, work, work

We can make it work
We can make it work

We JAH people can make it work
Come together and make it work
We can make it work
We can make it work

Five days to go working for the next day
Four days to go working for the next day
Three days to go working for the next day
Two days to go working for the next day
Say we got one day to go working for the next day
Every day is work, work
I work in the mid-day sun, work
I work till evening come, work
If you ain't got nothing to do, work
We got some work for you

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny
And in this judgment there is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms we will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights

Natty dread it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more internal power struggle
We come together, to overcome the little trouble
Soon we will find out who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

We'll have to fight, we gonna fight
We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
I and I a liberate Zimbabwe

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

To divide and rule could only tear us apart
In everyman chest there beats a heart
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Every man got a right
To decide his own destiny 

Zion train is coming our way
Zion train is coming our way
Oh people get on board
You better get on board
Thank the Lord, praise Fari
I gotta catch this train
Cause there is no other station
Then you going in the same direction

Zion train is coming our way
Zion train is coming our way

Which man can save his brothers soul
Oh man it's just self control
Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold
To the bridge

Oh where there is a will
There always is a way
Where there is a way
Where there is a will
There's always a way

Soul train is coming our way
Zion train is coming our way

Two thousand years of history
Could not be wiped away so easily
Two thousand years of history, black history
Could not be wiped away so easily

Oh children zion train is coming our way
Get on board now
You got a ticket so thank the Lord
Zion train is, Zion train is, Zion train is, Zion train
Soul train is coming our way
Soul train is coming our way