Bob Marley Lyrics 1

African Herbsman
- 1973 -
Catch a fire
- 1973 -
Burnin'
- 1973 -
Natty dread
- 1974 -
Lively Up Yourself
Small Axe
Duppy Conqueror
Trench Town Rock
African Herbsman
Keep On Moving
Fussing and Fighting
Stand Alone
All in One
Don't Rock the Boat
Put It On
Sun Is Shining
Kaya
Riding High
Brain Washing
Concrete Jungle
Slave Driver
400 Years
Stop That Train
Rock It Baby
Stir It Up
Kinky Reggae
No More Trouble
Midnight Ravers
Get Up, Stand Up

Hallelujah Time
I Shot The Sheriff
Burnin' And Lootin'
Put It On
Small Axe
Pass It On
Duppy Conqueror
One Foundation
Rasta Man Chant
Lively Up Yourself
No Woman No Cry
Them Belly Full
Rebel Music
So Jah Seh
Natty Dread
Bend Down Low
Talkin' Blues
Revolution
Live!
- 1975 -
Exodus
- 1976 -
Rastaman vibration
- 1976 -
Kaya
- 1978 -
Trenchtown Rock
Burnin' and Lootin'
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
Lively Up Yourself
No Woman, No Cry
I Shot the Sheriff
Get Up, Stand Up
Natural Mystic
So Much Things To Say
Guiltiness
The Heathen
Exodus
Jammin'
Waiting In Vain
Turn Your Lights Down Low
Three Little Birds
One Love
Positive Vibration
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Johnny Was
Cry To Me
Want More
Crazy Baldheads
Who The Cap Fit
Night Shift
War
Rat Race
Easy Skanking
Kaya
Is This Love
Sun Is Shining
Satisfy My Soul
She's Gone
Misty Morning
Crisis
Running Away
Time Will Tell
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African Herbsman
Lively Up Yourself
Lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, dig it, the other bag
Hey, you rock so, you rock so, like you never
did before
You dip so, you dip so, and you can dip thru my
door
You come so, you come so, oh yeah, like I do
adore you
You skank so, you skank so, and-a I can assure
you
You can lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Hey, you lively up yourself, can you dig it?
Hey (you rock so, you rock so), like you never
did before
You dip so, you dip so, can you dig it?
You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other
bag
Hey, lively up yourself
Lively up yourself, other bag
Can you dig it? Can you dig it? ...
Small Axe
Why boasteth thyself
Oh, evil men
Playing smart
And not being clever?

I said, you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
But the goodness of Jah, Jah
I-dureth for-I-ver
So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
If you are the big, big tree

To cut you down
If you are the big, big tree, let me tell you that
To cut you down
Sharpened ...
Duppy Conqueror
These are the words

Of my master, keep on tellin' me
No weak heart
Shall prosper
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, fall in it
Shall fall in it (... fall in it)
If you are the big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe, sharp and ready
To cut you down
(To cut you down)
(To cut you down)
These are the words
Of my master, tellin' me that
No weak heart
Shall prosper
Shall fall in it, uh, bury in it
Shall bury in it, uh (... bury in it)
Yes, me friend, me friend

Dem set me free again
Yes, me friend, me friend
Me deh 'pon street again
The bars
Yes, I've been accused
Wrongly abused now
But through the powers of the Most High
They've got to turn me loose
Yes, me friend, me good friend
Dem set me free again, mm
Yes, me friend
Dem turn me loose again
(Yes, me friend) Me friend, me friend, me
friend
We deh a street again
Yes, me friend, me friend, me friend
Dem set me free again
Trench Town Rock
One good thing about music, when it hits you
(you feel no pain)

Oh, oh, I say, one good thing about music,
when it hits you (you feel no pain)
Hit me with music, hit me with music now
This is (Trenchtown rock), don't watch that
(Trenchtown rock), big fish or sprat now
(Trenchtown rock) You reap what you sow
(Trenchtown rock), and only Jah, Jah know
(Trenchtown rock) I'd never turn my back
(Trenchtown rock), I'd give the slum a try
(Trenchtown rock) I'd never let the children cry
(Trenchtown rock), 'cause you got to tell Jah,
Jah why
(Groovin') It's Kingston 12
(groovin'), it's Kingston 12
(Groovin') It's Kingston 12 now
No want you come galang so, oh no
(... no want you fe galang so), ska-ba-dip-skaba
(You want come cold I up ...) Ska-ba-dibby-dip,
ska-ba-doop, ska-ba-doop (... cold I up)
Oh, oh, I'm groovin', and the world knows by
now,
now, now, now, now, now, now, now, y'all
Oh now, I said, you feel no pain now
(you feel no ...) feel no pain
Hit me with music now, oh now, hit me with
music now
Hit me with music, harder, brutalize me (...
music)
This is (Trenchtown rock), I say, don't watch
that
(Trenchtown rock), if you a big fish or sprat

(Trenchtown rock) You reap what you sow
(Trenchtown rock), and everyone know now
(Trenchtown rock) Don't turn your back
(Trenchtown rock), I say, give the slum a try
(Trenchtown rock) Never let the children cry
(Trenchtown rock), or you got to tell Jah, Jah
why
(Groovin') It's Kingston 12
(Groovin') I said, it's Kingston 12 now
(groovin'), oh, oh, oh, it's Kingston 12
(No want you fe galang so) Didn't I told you
that
(no want you fe galang so) we should leave
with love?
(You want come cold I up ...) I'm not gonna do
that, man,
nothin' (... come cold I ...), and look deh now
(Groovin') And then it's Kingston
12, uh
(Good God ...) Good God, looky here now, uh
Hit me with music ...
African Herbsman
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
(... 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)
Dideh part, yes, they part
In remembrance of today
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 ...
Keep On Moving
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)
Lord, I've got to keep on moving

Lord, I've got to get on down
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
(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
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 ...
Fussing and Fighting
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
boring?
(I wanna ...) I wanna know (... I wanna know),
Lord, tell me now ...
Stand Alone
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)
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

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
(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
(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
I wanna know, Lord, I wanna know, someone,
please
Why's this (... bumping and ...) bumping and
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 ...
All in One
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
Doo-yoo-doo-dun-doo, yeah, think about that
Long, long, long, long time, we no have no nice
time
Doo-yoo-doo-dun-doo, yeah, think about that,
mm
Oh, what a (... feeling ...), what a feeling (... 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 was cause thru love and affection
Mm, feel them spirit
I'm gonna put it on
Feel them spirit
I'm gonna put it on
Yes, my friend
We're in the streets again
Yes, my friend
Dem set we free again ...
Don't Rock the Boat
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 will
feel alright
Simmer down, you lickin' too hot, so
Simmer down, soon you'll get dropped, so
Simmer down, man, you hear what I say?
After he
Breaks your heart
Then you'll be sad, so sad
And then your teardrops start
I tell you, then you'll know how
It hurts to be alone
Huh, please don't you rock my boat

'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin'
anyhow
Please don't you rock my boat, no
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin'
I'm tellin' you that, oh, ooh-aah, I like it a-like
a-this
Can you miss?
And you should know, ooh-aah, when I like it
a-like a-this
Am I really it? Ooh yeah
You satis- satis- satisfy my soul, morning time
Evening cold, -fy my soul
Yes, I've been a-tellin' you, bake me the
sweetest cakes
I'm happy inside all the time
Oh, can't you see what you've done for me?
Yeah
You make me feel like when we bend them new
corners
We feel like sweepstake winners, yeah
When we bend them new corners
We feel like sweepstake winners
And I said, oh, ooh-aah, I like it a-like a-this
Yes, I do
And you should know, ooh-aah, when I like it
a-like a-this
I've got it, just can't miss, ooh
Satis- satisfy my soul, darlin'
Make me love you in the morning time, yeah
If ever I treated you bad, make it up to me one
time
'Cause I'm happy inside all the time
I want you beside me, yeah, to be mine
One thing you've got to do, is when a-we
holding hands together
You've got to know that we love, a-love each
other, yeah
And if every time you should walk away from
me now
Uh, you'll now I need your sympathy, yeah
Can you see? Do you believe me?
Oh, darlin', darlin', I'm callin', callin'
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
Never, never, never give it up now
All in the same boat
Rockin' on the same route
We gotta get together, join each other

And can't you see what I've got for you? Yeah
Got to have kaya now

For the rain is falling
I'm happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, and not

you can turn me blue now
Come a little closer, satisfy my ...
No more cryin'
No more cryin'
No more cryin'
Good Lord, hear me
Good Lord ...
Put It On
Sun Is Shining
I'm so high, I even touch the sky

Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again
Feel them spirit

Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah

Make you wanna move your dancing feet now
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know, y'all, can you understand?

Feel alright now

Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you
When the mornin' gather the rainbow, yeah,

yeah
Want you to know, I'm a rainbow too now
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know, y'all, can you, can you, can
you understand?
Feelin' irie I
Feelin' irie I
Feelin' irie I
'Cause I have some kaya now
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
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now

Make you wanna move your dancing feet, yeah
But to the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can, here I stand,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
I'm not boastin'

I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
Feel like toastin'
Feel like toastin'
Can you understand me now, baby?

Do you believe me?
I rule my destiny, yeah

I rule my destiny
I rule my destiny
Lord, I thank you, yeah
Lord, I thank you
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
Got to have kaya now, Lord
(Kaya now, kaya, kaya) Huh
Kaya
Riding High
Wake up and turn me loose
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
(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
(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

(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 ...
Brain Washing
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)
Coming through to a poor man's child, oohwee, 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
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) ...
Catch a fire
Concrete Jungle
No sun will shine in my day today; (no sun will
shine)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play:
(that high yellow moon won't come out to play)
I said (darkness) darkness has covered my light,
(and the stage) And the stage my day into night,
yeah.
Where is the love to be found? (oo-ooh-ooh)
Won't someone tell me?
'Cause my (sweet life) life must be somewhere
to be found (must be somewhere for me)
Instead of concrete jungle (la la-la!),

Where the living is harder (la-la!).
/fadeout/
Concrete jungle (la la-la!):

Man you got to do your (la la-la!) best. Wo-ooh,
yeah.
No chains around my feet,
But I'm not free, oh-ooh!
I know I am bound here in captivity;
G'yeah, now - (never, never) I've never known
happiness;
(never, never) I've never known what sweet
caress is Still, I'll be always laughing like a clown;
Won't someone help me? 'Cause I (sweet life) I've got to pick myself from off the ground
(must be somewhere for me), he-yeah! In this a concrete jungle (la la-la!):
I said, what do you cry for me (la-la!) now, ooh!
Concrete jungle (la la-la!), ah, won't you let me
be (la la-la!), now.
Hey! Oh, now!
--/Guitar solo/
--I said that life (sweet life) - it must be
somewhere to be found
(must be somewhere for me)
Oh, instead: concrete jungle (la-la!) - collusion
(la-la!) confusion (confusion). Eh!
Slave driver
Concrete jungle (la-la!): baby, you've got it in.

Concrete jungle (la la-la!), now. Eh!
Concrete jungle (la la-la!).
Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,

My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalize the very soul.
What do you stand(?) for me (la-la!), now?
Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh. Oo-oo-ooh! Oo-oo-ooh.

Slave driver, the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, now. (catch a
fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire: gonna get burn. (catch a fire) Wo,
now!
Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalize the very souls.
Today they say that we are free,
Only to be chained in poverty.
Good God, I think it's illiteracy;
It's only a machine that makes money.
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all. Ooh-oohoo-ooh.
Slave driver, uh! The table is turn, baby, now;
(catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, baby, now.
(catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a
fire)
Catch a fire: so you can get burn, now. (catch a
fire)
O God, have mercy on our souls!

Oh, slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a
fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a
fire)
Catch a fire ... /fadeout/
400 Years
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-oo-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. /fadeout/
Stop that train
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!
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!
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!
I said it won't be too long whether I'm right or
wrong. /fadeout/
Rock it baby
Baby, baby, we've got a date; (ooh-hoo, oohhoo)
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:
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!
--/Guitar solo/
--(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!
(Rock it, baby; rock it, baby, tonight;
rock it, baby; rock it, baby, tonight!)
Oh, darlin'! /fadeout/
Stir it up
Stir it up; little darlin', stir it up. Come on, baby.
Come on and stir it up: little darlin', stir it up.
O-oh!
It's been a long, long time, yeah!
(stir it, stir it, stir it together)
Since I got you on my mind. (ooh-ooh-oohooh) Oh-oh!
Now you are here (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
I said,
it's so clear
There's so much we could do, baby, (ooh-oohooh-ooh)
Just me and you.
Come on and stir it up; ..., little darlin'!
Stir it up; come on, baby!
Come on and stir it up, yeah!
Little darlin', stir it up! O-oh!

I'll push the wood (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
then I blaze ya fire;
Then I'll satisfy your heart's desire. (ooh-oohooh-ooh)
Said, I stir it every (stir it, stir it, stir it
together),
every minute:
All you got to do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Is keep it in, eh!
(Stir it up) Oh, little darlin',
Stir it up; ..., baby!
Come on and stir it up, oh-oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up! Wo-oh! Mm, now, now.
Quench me when I'm thirsty;
Come on and cool me down, baby, when I'm
hot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Your recipe is, - darlin' - is so tasty,
When you show and stir your pot. (ooh-oohooh-ooh)
So: stir it up, oh!
Little darlin', stir it up; wo, now!
Come on and stir it up, oh-ah!
Little darlin', stir it up!
--/Guitar solo/
--Oh, little darlin', stir it up. Come on, babe!
Come on and stir it up, wo-o-a!
Little darlin', stir it up! Stick with me, baby!
Come on, come on and stir it up, oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up. /fadeout/
Kinky reggae
Uh, ah-oh-oh! 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 boogawooga)
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-oohooh)
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)
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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! /fadeout/
No more trouble
(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; 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! /fadeout/
Midnight ravers
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!)
Do-do-do. Do-do-do. Do-do-do.

(You can't tell the woman from the man)
No, I say you can't, 'cause they're dressed in the
same pollution;
(dressed in the same pollution)
Their mind is confused with confusion
With their problems since they've no solution:
They become the midnight ravers.
Someone say:
(Please, don't let me down!)
Oh, please, don't let me - ee-ya-bab, oh, please
don't let me down!
(Midnight) Midnight ravers! (ravers) Midnight
ravers!
(Please don't) Oh, please, please,
don't let me down, down, down, down, down!
Don't let me down;
Don't let me down.
I see ten thousand chariots (ah-ah-ah-ah)
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And they coming without horses; (coming

without horses)
The riders - they cover their face, (ah-ah-ah-ah)
So you couldn't make them out in smoky place
(make them out in smoky places)
In that musical stampede, where everyone is
doing their thing.
Musical stampede - people swingin';
Musical stampede. Someone say:
People, ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!) Ride on!
(keep a-ridin'!) Midnight ravers!
People, ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)
I can't tell my woman from the man:
She is dressed in the same pollution; (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 beggin' you, (please) please, please oh, beel-ya-ba-ba - please don't ya let me down!
(Night-life ravers) Night-life ravers! Night-life
ravers!
Oh, please, please, please, please, don't let me
down.
Don't let me down;
Don't let me down!
I see ten thousand chariots (ah-ah-ah-ah)
And they coming without horses; (coming
without horses)
The riders they cover their face, (ah-ah-ah-ah)

So you couldn't make them out in smoky place
In that musical stampede, oh!
It's the musical stampede. Ride on!
It's the musical stampede, some preacher say!
People ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)
A-ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)
Ride on, y'all! (keep a-ridin'!)
Ride on! (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!) Don't let me down, midnight
ravers!
(keep a-ridin'!)
Midnight ravers, don't let me down! (keep aridin'!)
Don't let me down - don't let me down! (keep aridin'!)
Well, I'm comin'!
I got too much talkin'.
Burnin'
Get up, stand up
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Preacherman, don't tell me,

Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!
Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!
Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the
fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)
We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
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But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah,
yeah!)
So you better:
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our
rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't
give it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! /fadeout/
Hallelujah
Hear the children cryin',
but I know they cry not in vain.
Now the times are changin';
love has come to bloom again.
Smelling the air when spring comes by
raindrops
reminds us of youthful days.
But now it's not rain that water the cane crops,
but the sweat from man's brow;
the substance from our spine.
We gotta keep on living, living on borrowed
time:
Hallelujah time!
Yes, you can hear the children singing:

Hallelujah time!
As they go singing by and by: Hallelujah time!
Oh, "hallelujah" singing in the morning.
Hallelujah time! Let them sing; don't let them
cry.
Over rocks and mountains
the sheep are scattered all around.
Over hills and valleys,
they are everywhere to be found.
But though we bear our burdens now,
All afflictions got to end somehow:
From swinging the hammer, pulling the plough.
Why won't you let us be, to live in harmony?
We like to be free like birds in a tree.
Hallelujah time! Yes, you can hear the children
singing.
Hallelujah time! Yes, as they go singing by and
by.
Hallelujah time! Oh "hallelujah" singing in the
morning.
Let them sing; never let them cry.
Hallelujah time! "Hallelujah" singin' in the
morning.
I shot the sheriff
(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, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! All around in my home town,
They're tryin' to track me down;
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.) - the sheriff.
(But I swear it was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff - Oh, Lord! (And they say it is a capital offence.)
Yeah! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
Sheriff John Brown always hated me,
For what, I don't know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow He said kill them before they grow.
And so:
Read it in the news:
(I shot the sheriff.) Oh, Lord!
(But I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy? (Oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. (Oo-oh)
Yeah!
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),
I didn't shoot no deputy (oh, no-oh), oh no!
(I shot the sheriff.) I did!
But I didn't shoot no deputy. Oh! (Oo-oo-ooh)
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Reflexes had got the better of me

And what is to be must be:
Every 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.
Lord, I didn't shot the deputy. Yeah!
I - I (shot the sheriff) But I didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! No, yeah!
Burnin' and lootin'
This morning I woke up in a curfew;
O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality.
Eh!
How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have lost;
We must have really paid the cost.
(That's why we gonna be)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
(One more thing)
Burnin' all pollution tonight;
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin' all illusion tonight.
Oh, stop them!
Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the Roots Man take a blow.

All them drugs gonna make you slow now;
It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(Who can stop the tears?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(We've been suffering these long, long-a years!)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(Will you say cheer?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(But where?)
I must say: all them - all them drugs gonna
make you slow;
It's not the music of the ghetto.
We gonna be burning and a-looting tonight;
(To survive, yeah!)
Burning and a-looting tonight;
(Save your baby lives)
Burning all pollution tonight;
(Pollution, yeah, yeah!)
Burning all illusion tonight
(Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!)
Burning all pollution tonight. /fadeout/
Put it on
Feel them spirit;
Feel them spirit;
Feel them spirit.
Lord, I thank you;
Lord, I thank you.

Feel all right now;
Feel all right now;
Feel all right now.
Good Lord, hear me;
Good Lord, hear me.
I'm not boasting;
I'm not boasting;
I'm not boasting, yeah!
Feel like toasting;
Feel like toasting
Simply 'cause:
I'm gonna put it on;
(In the morning)
(In the night)
(Anytime, anywhere)
Good Lord, help me;
Good Lord, help me.
Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo;
Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo.
No more cryin';
No more cryin';
No more cryin'.
Lord, I thank you;
Lord, I thank you.
And I'm gonna put it on;
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I'm gonna put it on.

Feel all right now;
Feel all right now.
Lord, I thank you;
Lord, I thank you;
Lord, I thank you.
Feel all right now;
Feel all right now. /fadeout/
Small axe
Why boasteth thyself, O evil men;
Playing smart and not being clever, oh no!
I say you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity, yeah, if a-so a-so.
But the goodness of Jah - Jah
Idureth for Iver.
/Instrumental break/
--Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall fall in it - fall in it, eh!
Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.
If you are the big tree,
We have a small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.
Let me tell you this: we are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.
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.
If you have a big tree ... /fadeout/

Sharpened to cut you down, (well sharp)
Ready to cut you down, oh yeah!
These are the words of my master
Keep on tellin' me - o-oh! - no weak heart shall
prosper:
Oh no, they can't! Eh.
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.
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.
---
Pass it on
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.
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)
Duppy conqueror
Yes, me friend,
We deh a street again.
Yes, me friend, me good friend,
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Dem say we free again.
One foundation
The bars could not hold me;

Force could not control me now.
They try to keep me down, yeah!
But Jah put I around. Yeah!
Got to build our love on one foundation;

Got to build our love on one foundation.
Yes, I've been accused many a times

And wrongly abused, now.
Oh, but through the powers of the Most-I,
They've got to turn me loose.
O-o-oh! O-o-ooh! Oh! Don't try to cold me up
on this bridge, now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion The highest region.
So if you a bull-bucka,
Let me tell you this I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror. Oh, yeah!
We deh a street again. O-oh!
Dem say we free again. Oh! Oh!
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 a bull-bucka,
Let me tell you this:
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror. Oh, yeah!
Yes, me friend,
Dem say we free again. Oh! Oh, yeah!
Yes, me friend,
Dem set we free again. Oh!
Yes, me friend, me good friend, ... /fadeout/
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 ...
/fadeout/
Rasta man chant
Hear the words of the Rastaman say:
"Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon, you throne gone down."
Said I hear the words of the Iyaman say:
"Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon, you throne gone down."
--/Short instrumental break/
--And I hear the angel with the seven seals say:
"Babylon throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon 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,
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One bright morning when my work is over,

Say one bright morning when my work is over,
Natty dread
Lively up yourself
You're gonna lively up yourself, and don't be no
drag;
You lively up yourself 'cause 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, yeah!
You dip so, you dip so: dip through 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, y'all!
You lively up yourself, and don't be no drag;
bag.
What you got that I don't know?
I'm a-trying to wonder - wonder - wonder why
you wonder - wonder why you act so. Yeah!
Hey, do you hear what the man seh?

Lively up your(self) - your woman in the
morning time, y'all!
Wa! Keep a liv'lin' up your woman when the
evening come
And take ya* - take ya - take ya - take ya-a-a!
Come on, baby! 'Cause I wanna be lively
myself, y'all!
--/Organ, saxophone and guitar solo/
--Lively up yourself;
Lively up yourself.
You want to rock so, you rock so:
--/Saxophone solo/
--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 you got in de other bag you got hanging
there?
What you say you got?
I don't believe you!
[* Sheet music gives this line as: "And take her
take ya."]
No woman no cry
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.

'Cause - 'cause - 'cause I remember when a we
used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites - yeah! Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we
have lost
Along the way, yeah!
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh. Yeah!
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry. Eh, yeah!
A little darlin', don't shed no tears:
No, woman, no cry. Eh!
Said - said - said I remember when we used to
sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown, yeah!
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
I seh, logwood burnin' through the nights, yeah!
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge, say,
Of which I'll share with you, yeah!
My feet is my only carriage
And so I've got to push on through.
Oh, while I'm gone,
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right, yeah!
Everything's gonna be all right-a!
Everything's gonna be all right, yeah!
So no, woman, no cry;
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No, woman, no cry.

I seh, O little - O little darlin', don't shed no
tears;
No, woman, no cry, eh.
A pot a-yook, but d' yood* no 'nough.
No, woman - no, woman - no, woman, no cry;

No, woman, no cry.
One more time I got to say:
O little - little darlin', please don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
A belly full, but them hungry;

A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough;
A pot a-cook, but d' food* no 'nough.
A hungry man is a angry man;
A pot a-yook, but you no 'nough'
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough.
A pot a-cook, but you no 'nough;
A hungry mob is a angry mob;
A hungry mob is a angry mob. /fadeout/
Them belly full ( But we hungry )

Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na.
Them belly full, but we hungry;
A yot a-yook, but d' yood no 'nough.
You're gonna dance to Jah music, dance;
We're gonna dance to Jah music, dance, oh-ooh!
Forget your troubles and dance!
Forget your sorrows and dance!
Forget your sickness and dance!
Forget your weakness and dance!
Cost of livin' gets so high,
Rich and poor they start to cry:
Now the weak must get strong;
They say, "Oh, what a tribulation!"
We're gonna chuck to Jah music - chuckin';

We're chuckin' to Jah music - we're chuckin'.
[* Sheet music gives this line as: "A pot a cook

but you no' nough".]
Rebel music ( 3 O'Clock roadblock )
(Do do do do-do do do!
Do do do do-do do do!
I rebel music;
I rebel music.)
Why can't we roam (oh-oh-oh-oh) this open
country? (open country)
Oh, why can't we be what we wanna be? (ohoh-oh-oh-oh)
We want to be free. (wanna be free)
3 o'clock roadblock - curfew,
And I've got to throw away Yes, I've got to throw away A yes-a, but I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk!
I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm tellin' you! (I) I rebel music (rebel music). Oh-ooh!
Take my soul (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
and suss - and suss me out (suss me out). Ohooh!
Check my life (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh),
if I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm tellin':
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "Hey, Mr. Cop! Ain't got no - (hey) hey!
(hey, Mr Cop) (What ya sayin' down there?) - (hey) hey! (hey,
Mr Cop) Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."
--/Instrumental break/
(I rebel music)
(I rebel music)
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
(open country)
(oh-oh-oh)
--(Do do do!)
I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm tellin' you! (I) I rebel music (rebel music).
Oh-ooh! Take my soul (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
and suss - and suss me out (suss me out). Ohooh!
Check my life (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh),
if I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm tellin':
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "Hey, Mr. Cop! Ain't got no - (hey) hey!
(hey, Mr Cop) (What ya sayin' down there?) - (hey) hey! (hey,
Mr Cop) Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."
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So jah seh
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 saying unto thee, 'I
Inite oneself and love Imanity.'"
'Cause puss and dog they get together:
What's wrong with loving one another?
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.
But I'n'I a-hang on in there
And I'n'I, I naw leggo;
I'n'I a-hang on in there
and I'n'I, I naw leggo.
For so Jah seh - yeah! "I'm gone to prepare a place,
That where I am thou shall abide," yeah!
So Jah seh,
"Fear not for mighty dread,
'Cause I'll be there at your side."
And - and down there - down there in the ghetto
And down there we suffer
And I'n'I, I naw leggo.
And I'n'I, I naw leggo;
- So Jah seh.
Natty dread
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. /fadeout/
Bend down low
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know
now;
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know.
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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! /fadeout/
Talkin' blues
Yeah! Oh, yeah! Now!
Cold ground was my bed last night (bed last
night)
And rock was my pillow, too; (doo-oo-oo-oooo!)
night)
And rock was my pillow, too. Yeah!

I'm saying: talkin' blues (talkin' blues),
talkin' blues (talkin' blues);
They say your feet is just too big for your
shoes. (shoe-oo-oo-oo-oo)
Talkin' blues (talkin' blues), talkin' blues (talkin'
blues):
Your feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoeoo-oo-oo-oo)
Yeah, I've been down on the rock for so long,
(so long)
I seem to wear a permanent screw; (screw-oooo-oo-oo)
I've been down on the rock for so long, (so
long)
I seem to wear a permanent screw. (screw-oooo-oo-oo)
But-a I - I'm gonna stare in the sun,
Let the rays shine in my eyes.
I - I'm a gonna take a just-a one step more
'Cause I feel like bombin' a church Now - now that you know that the preacher is
lyin'.
So who's gonna stay at home
When - when the freedom fighters are fighting?
blues):
They say your feet is just too big for your
shoes, woe-oh-oh-oh!
Talkin' blues (talkin' blues), keep on talkin'
blues (talkin' blues);
They say - you hear what they say Didn't you hear?
Cold ground was my bed (bed last night),
Rockstone - rockstone - rockstone was my

pillow;
night),
And rock was my pillow, too.
Sayin': (talkin' blues, talkin' blues):
I seem to wear a permanent screw - permanent
screw.
blues):
Feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoe-oo-oooo-oo) /fadeout/
Revolution
Revelation reveals the truth - revelation.
(revolution, revolution, revolution - oooo-doodoo-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!
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(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-doodoo-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.
Rastaman vibration
Positive vibration
Live if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That's what we got to give!
(I'n'I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)
If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wooh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)
Say you just can't live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day,
'Cause it's news (new day) - news and days New time (new time), and if it's a new feelin'
(new feelin'), yeah! Said it's a new sign (new sign):
Oh, what a new day!
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Jah love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah love - Jah love (protect us).
Rastaman vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
I'n'I vibration, yeah! (Positive!) Uh-huh-huh, a

yeah!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! (Irie ites!) Wo-oo-oh!
*Positive vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
Pickin' up?
Pickin' up?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up?
[* Sleeve notes give this line as "Vibes, got to
have a good vibe".]
Roots, rock, reggae
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis 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, yeah! Dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: dis a reggae music!
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Play I on the R&B - wo-oh! Want all my people

to see:
We're bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a
mighty dread!
Play I on the R&B; want all my people to see:
We bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty
dread!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Uh-uh!
Roots, rock, reggae, ee-mi duba! Dis a reggae
music!
Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
--/Saxophone solo/
(Dis a reggae music!)
--Play I on the R&B; I want all my people to see:
(doo-doo-doo-doo!)
We bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty
dread!
(doo-doo-doo-doo!)
Johnny was
(Wo-o-o-o! Wo-o-o-o! Wooo!)
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 (cry)

Wondering how can she work it out,
Now she knows that the wages of sin is death,
yeah!
Gift of Jah is life. (life)
She cried: Ah-um, I - I know!
"Johnny was a good man," I - I know! (never
did a thing wrong)
"Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good,
good, good, good,
good, good, good man", (Johnny was good
man)
she cried - she crie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ied!
Cease towards the child she bear? (Never did a

thing wrong)
Wo-now, cry! (Johnny was a good man)
Wo-ooh! Woman hold her head and cry,

As her son had been shot down in the street and
died
Just because of the system. (system)
You got to cry to me, now!

You're gonna cry - cry - cry to me, yeah! Yeah!
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, yea-ea-eah!
You gonna cry to me now;
You've got to cry - cry - cry to me, yeah!
You're gonna spend those lonely hours.
You're gonna shed those lonely tears;
(Walk back) Walk back through the heartaches;
(Walk back) Walk back through the pain;
(Shed those) Shed those lonely teardrops:
The reaction of your cheating game.
Woman hold her head and cry;

Comforting her I was passing by.
She complained, then she cry:
Oh-ooh-wo-ah, cry (ah-ah), yeah, I know now
(ah-ah),
no I know, I know now: (Johnny was a good
man)
Said I know, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. (Never did
a thing wrong)
Ah! Ah! (Johnny was a good man)
Can a woman tender care, she cried, (Never did
a thing wrong)
Cease towards the child she bear? (Johnny was
a good man)
Wo-ho-ho-ooh! Woman cry, woman - (Never
did a thing wrong)
She cried, wo-oh! She cried, yeah! (Johnny was
a good man)
Can a woman tender care
Cry to me
(Ooh-ooh, hoo-hoo-hoo! Ooh-ooh hoo-hoo!)
Cry to me, now;
You gonna cry to me, yeah!
You're gonna walk back through the heartaches;
You're gonna walk back through the pain;
(Shed those) Shed those lonely teardrops:
The reaction of your cheating game.
You're gonna to cry to me, now!

You got to cry - cry - cry to me, yeah!
Saying, (don't know) don't know - know how I
get from the heartaches;
(Lord that) Lord that leadeth me, yeah-eah-eah!
(Shed those lonely teardrops) Now I'm by the
still water;
(The reaction of your cheating game) Gonna
cry to me now, hey!
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(Cry) Cry
(Cry) Cry
Want more
Now you get what you want,
Do you want more? (want more)
Now you get what you want,
Do you want more? (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, down back-bite!
Down back-biter, down back-biter; down backbiter, down back-bite!
They stab you in the back
And they claim that you're not looking.
But Jah have them in the region
In the valley of decision.
In the valley of decision In the valley of decision.
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down
Now you get, what you want,
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
Do you want more?
You think it's the end:
Do you want more?

--/Guitar solo/
--Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down
In the valley of decision.
Now: what you want?
Want more? Want more?
Now: what you get?
Now - Now: do you want more?
You think it's the end: (think it's the end)
Do you want more? (want more) (you think it's
the end)
--(Now: what you want?
Now: what you get?
Want more? Want more?)
Crazy baldheads
Them crazy, them crazy We gonna chase those crazy
Baldheads out of town;
Chase those crazy baldheads
Out of our town.
I'n'I plant the corn;

Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country?
Now you look me with that scorn,
Then you eat up all my corn.
We gonna chase those crazy Chase them crazy Chase those crazy baldheads out of town!
--/Scat singing/
--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 the yown!
--We gonna chase those crazy Chase those crazy bunkheads Chase those crazy baldheads out of the yown!
Here comes the conman
Coming with his con plan.
We won't take no bribe;
We've got [to] stay alive.
We gonna chase those crazy Chase those crazy baldheads Chase those crazy baldheads out of the yown.
Who the cap fit
I'n'I build a cabin;
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Man to man is so unjust, children:

Ya don't know who to trust.
Your worst enemy could be your best friend,
And your best friend your worse 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!
Who the cap fit, let them wear it!
Said I throw me corn, me no call no fowl;
I saying, "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-cluk-cluk."
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 stock fit let them wear it!
Who the (cap fit) let them (wear it)!
And then a-gonna throw me corn,
And then a-gonna call no fowl,
And then a-gonna "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-clukcluk."
--Some will eat and drink with you,
Then behind them su-su 'pon you, yeah!
And if night should turn to day, now,
A lot of people would run away, yeah!
And who the cap fit, let them wear it!
Who the cap fit, let them wear it!
Throw me corn, me no call no fowl;

A-saying: "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-cluk-cluk."
... : "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-cluk-cluk."
Throw me corn (cook-cook-cook);
Me call no fowl (cluk-cluk-cluk)
Night shift
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 all right!
If it's all night,
Got to be all right!
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 all right!
All night, yeah! It's all right!
Working on a forklift
In the night shift;
Working on a night shift,
With the forklift,
from A.M. (Did you say that? Why did you say
that?)
to P.M. (Working all night!)
Working on a night shift, yeah!
(Did you say that? Why did you say that?
Upfull and right!)
Well, if it's (all night!) - if it's (all right!)
all night (all night!) Warehouse (all right!),
You're empty, yeah!

Go around the corner,
Bring your goods!
Go around the other corner,
Bring your suitcases. (All night!)
By the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat your bread! (All night!)
By the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat your bread!
All night (all night)! All right (all right)!
All night (all night)! All right (all right)!
Oh, yeah! (moon by night)
Why did you say that? Oh, yeah! (Upfull and
right!)
Working on a night shift
With the forklift. (Moon by night!)
Working on the night shift,
Oh, yeah! (Upfull and right!) /fadeout/
War
Until the philosophy which hold one race
superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned Everywhere is war Me say war.
That until there 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
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eyes Me say war.
As we are confident
In the victory
That until the basic human rights

Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race Dis a war.
Of good over evil Good over evil, yeah!

Good over evil Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil Good over evil, yeah! /fadeout/
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
Rat race
Uh! Ya too rude!
Uh! Eh! What a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
This is the rat race! Rat race! (Rat race!)
Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacket:
Oh, what a rat race, yeah! Rat race!
Some a gorgon-a, some a hooligan-a, some a
guine-gog-a
In this 'ere rat race, yeah!
Rat race!
I'm singin' that
When the cat's away,
The mice will play.
Political voilence fill ya city, ye-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say;
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.
Rat race, rat race, rat race! Rat race, I'm sayin':
When you think is peace and safety:
A sudden destruction.
Collective security for surety, ye-ah!
Know your destiny:

In the abundance of water,
The fool is thirsty.
Rat race, 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!
Exodus
Natural mystic
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 have to face reality now.
'Though I've tried to find the answer to all the
questions they ask.
'Though I know it's impossible to go livin'
through the past Don't tell no lie.
Don't forget your history;
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There's a natural mystic blowing through the air

Can't keep them down If you listen carefully now you will hear.
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:
air.
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air;
air;
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air.
So much things to say
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
Je-sus 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.
Guiltiness
Guiltiness (talkin' 'bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience. 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-eaheah-eah.
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Say: Woe to the downpressors:

They'll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
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-eaheah-eah-eah-eah.
But: Woe to the downpressors:
Oh, yeah-eah! Oh yeah-e-e-e-e-e!
Guiltiness. Oh yeah. Ah!
They'll eat the bread of sorrow everyday.
The heathen
De heathen back dey 'pon de wall!
De heathen back, yeah, 'pon de wall!
Rise up fallen fighters;
Rise and take your stance again.
'Tis he who fight and run away

Live to fight another day.
With de heathen back dey 'pon de wall!
As a man sow, shall he reap
And I know that talk is cheap.
But the hotter the battle
A the sweeter Jah victory.
With de heathen back dey 'pon de wall!
--/Guitar solo/
--Rise up, fallen fighters:
Rise and take your stance again.
'Tis he who fight and run away
Live to fight another day.
Exodus
Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh-oh-oh,
yea-eah!
.......
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 all right.
So we gonna walk - all right! - through de roads
of creation:
We the generation (Tell me why!)
(Trod through great tribulation) trod through
great tribulation.
Exodus, all right! Movement of Jah people!
Oh, yeah! O-oo, yeah! All right!
Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh, yeah!
Yeah-yeah-yeah, well!
Uh! Open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied (with the life you're living)?
Uh!
We know where we're going, uh!
We know where we're from.
We're leaving Babylon,
We're going to our Father land.
2, 3, 4: Exodus: movement of Jah people! Oh,
yeah!
(Movement of Jah people!) Send us another
brother Moses!
(Movement of Jah people!) From across the
Red Sea!
(Movement of Jah people!) Send us another
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brother Moses!
(Movement of Jah people!) From across the
Red Sea!
Movement of Jah people!
--Exodus, all right! Oo-oo-ooh! Oo-ooh!
Movement of Jah people! Oh, yeah!
Exodus!
Exodus! All right!
Exodus! Now, now, now, now!
Exodus!
Exodus! Oh, yea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eah!
Exodus!
Exodus! All right!
Exodus! Uh-uh-uh-uh!
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, y'all!
We're going to our Father's land.
Exodus, all right! Movement of Jah people!
Exodus: movement of Jah people!
Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!
Move!
Jah come to break downpression,
Rule equality,
Wipe away transgression,
Set the captives free.
Exodus, all right, all right!
Movement of Jah people! Oh, yeah!
Exodus: movement of Jah people! Oh, now,
now, now, now!
Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Uhuh-uh-uh!
Move(ment of Jah people)!
Move(ment of Jah people)! Movement of Jah
people!
Jammin'
Ooh, yeah! All right!
We're jammin':
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're jammin', jammin',
And I hope you like jammin', too.
Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it
anyhow:
I'n'I will see you through,

'Cos everyday we pay the price with a little
sacrifice,
Jammin' till the jam is through.
We're jammin' To think that jammin' was a thing of the past;
We're jammin',
And I hope this jam is gonna last.
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor
we won't bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; Jah - Jah children must
unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin')
And we're jammin' in the name of the Lord;
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin'),
We're jammin' right straight from Yah.
Yeh! Holy Mount Zion;
Holy Mount Zion:
Jah sitteth in Mount Zion
And rules all creation.
Yeah, we're - we're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
Wotcha-wa-wa-wa, we're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
See, I wanna jam it wid you
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin')
I'm jammed: I hope you're jammin', too.
Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide
To keep you satisfied.
True love that now exist is the love I can't
resist,
So jam by my side.
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We're Jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin'),

yeah-eah-eah!
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin',
we're jammin',
We're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin',
we're jammin';
Hope you like jammin', too.
We're jammin', we're jammin' (jammin'),
We're jammin', we're jammin' (jammin').
I wanna (I wanna jam it wid you) - I wanna I wanna jam wid you now.
Jammin', jammin' (hope you like jammin' too).
Eh-eh! I hope you like jammin', I hope you like
jammin',
'Cause (I wanna jam it wid you). I wanna ... wid
you.
I like - I hope you - I hope you like jammin',
too.
I wanna jam it;
I wanna jam it.
I wanna know when you're gonna come - soon.

I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love,
'Cause if summer is here,
I'm still waiting there;
Winter is here,
And I'm still waiting there.
--/Guitar solo/
--Like I said:
It's been three years since I'm knockin' 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!
Waiting in vain
1, 2, 3:
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love.
From the very first time I rest my eyes on you,
girl,
My heart says follow t'rough.
But I know, now, that I'm way down on your
line,
But the waitin' feel is fine:
So don't treat me like a puppet on a string,
'Cause I know I have to do my thing.
Don't talk to me as if you think I'm dumb;

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 I don't wanna wait in vain.
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I
don't wanna I don't wanna wait in vain.
No, I don't wanna (I don't wanna - I don't
wanna - I don't wanna I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
No I - no I (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I

don't wanna - I don't
wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) No, no-no, I, no, I (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 (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 me love that you're running from.
It's Jah love that I'm waiting on (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 me love that you're running from.
Turn your lights down low
Turn your lights down low
And pull your window curtains;
Oh, let Jah moon come shining in Into our life again,
Sayin': ooh, it's been a long, long (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, girlie,
On time - on time.
I want to give you some love (good, good
lovin');
I want to give you some good, good lovin'
(good, good lovin').
Oh, I - oh, I - oh, I,
Say, I want to give you some good, good lovin'
(good, good lovin'):
Turn your lights down low;
Never try to resist, oh no!
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Oh, let my love come tumbling in Into our life again,

Sayin': ooh, I love ya!
And I want you to know right now,
I love ya!
And I want you to know right now,
'Cause I - that I I want to give you some love, oh-ooh!
I want to give you some good, good lovin';
Oh, I - I want to give you some love;
Sayin': I want to give you some good, good
lovin':
Turn your lights down low, wo-oh!
Never - never try to resist, oh no!
Ooh, let my love - ooh, let my love come
tumbling in Into our life again.
Oh, I want to give you some good, good lovin'
(good, good lovin').
Three little birds
"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"
Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")
Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a
thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"
Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry
about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't
worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't
worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I
won't worry!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!
One love / people get ready
One Love! One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!);
Hear the children cryin' (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. Wo
wo-wo wo-wo!
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
beliefs?
One Love! What about the one heart? One
Heart!
What about - ? 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!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will
feel all right;
One more thing!
Let's get together to fight this Holy
Armagiddyon (One Love!),
So when the Man comes there will be no, no
doom (One Song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows
t'inner;
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of
Creation.
Sayin': One Love! What about the One Heart?
(One Heart!)
What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all
right.
I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!);
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!
feel all right;
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feel all right;
Kaya
Easy skanking
Easy skanking (skankin' it easy);
Easy skanking (skankin' it slow);
Easy skanking (skankin' it easy);
Easy skanking (skankin' it slow).
Excuse me while I light my spliff; (spliff)
Good God, I gotta take a lift: (lift)
From reality I just can't drift; (drift)
That's why I am staying with this riff. (riff)
Take it easy (easy skankin');
Lord, I take it easy! (easy skankin');
Take it easy (easy skankin');
Got to take it easy (easy skankin').
See: we're takin' it easy (ooh-wah-da da-da)
We taking it slow, (ooh-wah-da da-da)
Takin' it easy (easy);
Got to take it slow (slow-slow)
So take it easy (easy skankin' - da-da-da-da-dada)
Wo-oh, take it easy (easy skankin')
Take it easy (easy skankin' - da-da-da-da-da-da)
Take it easy. (easy skankin')
Excuse me while I light my spliff; (spliff)
Oh, God, I gotta take a lift: (lift)
From reality I just can't drift; (drift)

That's why I am staying with this riff. (riff)
Take it easy (takin' it easy);
Got to take it easy (takin' it slow);
Skanky, take it easy (takin' it slow).
Tell you what:
herb for my wine; (ooh-wa-da-da-da)
Honey for my strong drink; (ooh-wa-da-da-da)
Herb for my wine; (ooh-wa-da-da-da)
Honey for my strong drink.
I shake it easy (takin' it easy);
Skanky, take it easy (skankin' it slow);
Take it (takin' it easy) easy;
Take it (skankin' it slow) easy;
Oh-oh-ooh! (skankin' it slow);
Little bit easier (takin' it easy);
Skanky, take it easy (skankin' it slow).
Take it easy! Take it easy! Take it easy!
/fadeout/
Kaya
(Wake up and -)
(Wake up and -)
(Wake up and -) Wake up and turn I loose,
For the rain is fallin'!
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya),
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
We-e-e-e-e-ell, I feel so high, I even touch the
sky
Above the fallin' rain!
I feel so good in my neighbourhood,
So: here I come again!
I've got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya),
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
I've got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya),
--Wo-o-oh! Yea-ea-ea-eah! I feel so high, I even
touch the sky
Above the fallin' rain!
We-e-ell, I feel so good in my neighbourhood
So: here I come again!
I've got to have kaya now!
I've got to have kaya now!
I've got to have kaya now,
Get up and turn I loose;
Wake up and turn I loose;
Wake up and turn I loose, for the rain is fallin'.
We-e-ell, kayaman! (kaya, kaya)
Kayaman! (kaya, kaya)
For the rain is - rain is fallin'!
Wake up and turn I loose
Is this love
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;
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We'll share the shelter of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah
provide the bread.
Is this love - is this love - is this love Is this love that I'm feelin'?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know
now!
I got to know - got to know - got to know now!
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love
and treat you right;
We'll be together, yeah! - with a roof right over
our heads;
We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh now! - of my
single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah
provide the bread.
Wo-o-o-oah! Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes,
I know now!
Yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya
love and treat ya right.
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, yeah! Jah provide
the bread.
We'll share the shelter of my single bed /fadeout/
Sun is shining
...... Wo-o-wo!
Sun is shinin', the weather is sweet;
Make you want to move your dancin' feet:
To the rescue, here I am!
Want you to know, y'all, where I stand!
--(Monday morning) Here I am!
Want you to know (Tuesday evening) just if
you can
Where I stand.
(Wednesday morning) Tell myself a new day is
risin';
(Thursday evening) get on the rise a new day is
dawnin'.
(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 - know - know - know.
--/Guitar solo/
---
We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises-a!

We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises, yeaeah!
(Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now
Make you want to move your dancing feet)
So, to the rescue, here I am!
Want you to know just if you can
Where I (stand) - know - 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 scoopscoop!
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,
all right! And so ...
--Awake from your sleep and slumber:
Today could bring your lucky number, er - er!
Sun is shining (and the weather is sweet)
/fadeout/
Satisfy my soul
Oh, please don't you rock my boat (don't rock
my boat)
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' (don't
rock my boat)
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Oh, please don't you rock my boat (don't rock

my boat)
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' (don't
rock my boat)
I'm telling you that, oh, oh-ooh, wo-o-wo!
I like it - like it this (I like it like this, I like it
like this) So keep it steady, 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
(I like it like this, I like it like this),
I like it like this, ooh yeah! (I like it like this)
(Satisfy my soul) You satisfy my soul (satisfy
my soul);
You satisfy my soul (satisfy my soul).
Every little action (satisfy my soul),
there's a reaction (satisfy my soul).
Oh, can't you see what you've done for me, oh,
yeah!
I am happy inside all - all of the time. Wo-oo-ooo!
When we (bend) bend a new corner,
I feel like a (sweep) sweepstake winner.
When I meet you around the corner (round the
corner),
You make me feel like a sweepstake winner (a
sweep - a sweepstake 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
(calling, calling, 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
all right.
Yes, when you hold me tight, you made me feel
all right.
Whoa, honey, can't you see? Don't you believe
me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm callin', callin':
Can't you see? Why won't you believe me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm callin', callin'
(calling, calling, calling, calling).
Satisfy my soul - satisfy my soul - satisfy my
soul - satisfy my soul:
That's all I want you to do, that's all I'll take
from you:
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul. /fadeout/
She's gone
My woman is gone (woman is gone), my
woman is gone (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, yeah - 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),
she's gone (she's gone), she's gone, ye-ah!

Oh, mocking bird, have you ever heard,
Words that I never heard?
She made it through the exit (she just couldn't
take it);
She made it through the exit (she just couldn't
make it).
And, oh, my children, if you see me cryin':
My woman is gone.
If you see me - if you see me - if you see me if you see me cryin' If you see me - if you see me - if you see me if you see me cryin':
she's gone, ye-ah!
she's gone
(she's gone)
Misty morning
Misty mornin', don't see no sun;
I know you're out there somewhere having fun.
There is one mystery - yea-ea-eah - I just can't
express:
To give your more, to receive your less.
One of my good friend said, in a reggae riddim,
"Don't jump in the water, if you can't swim."
The power of philosophy - yea-ea-eah - floats
through my head
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Light like a feather, heavy as lead;

Light like a feather, heavy as lead, yeah.
See no sun! Oh.
Time has come, I want you I want you to straighten out my tomorrow! Uh.
I want - I want - I want you - (tomorrow).
Oh, wo-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
I want you to straighten out my (tomorrow)!
Misty (morning) mornin', don't see no sun;
I know you're out there somewhere having fun.
Mysteries I just can't express:
How can you ever give your more to receive
your less?
Like my good friend said, in a reggae riddim:
"You can't jump - you can't jump in the water, if
you can't swim."
I want you (I want you) - I want you to
straighten out my today My tomorrow - my-my-my - my - my
(I want you to straighten out my tomorrow).
On a misty morning, uh! (I want you to
straighten out my tomorrow).
Oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh!
(I want you to straighten out my tomorrow)
Straighten out my tomorrow - my tomorrow!
Need some straightenin' out!
(I want you to straighten out my tomorrow)
Mist! Mm. (I want) Mist! (you to straighten out
my tomorrow)
Misty! Oh! (I want you to straighten out my
tomorrow) - /fadeout/
Crisis
They say the sun an-a shines for all,
But-a yin some people world, it never shine at

all. Mm-mm-mm.
They say love is a stream that will find its
course;
I mean - some-a people think life is a dream
So they making matters worse.
But no matter what the crisis is;
No matter what the crisis is:
Doin' it, doin' it, doin' your thing!
(Give Jah all the thanks and praises!)
Givin' it, givin' it, givin' it, givin' it!
So - so - so much have been said, so little (been
done) been done
They still killin' - killin' the people
And they - and they havin' (havin' their fun) havin'-a - havin'-a lots of fun Killin' the people, oo-yoo! - (havin' fun) havin'
their fun!
They just want to be the leader
In the 'ouse of the risin' sun.
But no matter what the crisis is;
Oh, no, oh, no no - no what the crisis is:
Do your - live it up, live it up, live it up, live it
up!
Live it up, live it up, live it up, live it up!
--They say the sun-un-un-un shines for all,
But-a yin some people world, it never shine 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 - so they makin' - makin' it worse.
No matter what the crisis is;
No matter what the crisis is:
Do it: live it up, live it up, live it up, live it up!
Live it up, live it up, live it up, live it up!
His mercies endureth for ever, yeah!
Oh, children, come on, and give Jah (Give Jah all the thanks and praises!)
Children, come on, and give Jah (Give Jah all the thanks and praises!) /fadeout/
Running away
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running,
But ya can't run away from yourself
Can't run away from yourself Can't run away from yourself Can't run away from yourself Can't run away from yourself Can't run away from yourself.
Ya must have done (must have done),
Somet'in' wrong (something wrong).
Said: ya must have done (must have done),
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Wo! Somet'in' wrong (something wrong).

Why you can't find the
Place where you belong?
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away);
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away).
Every man thinketh his
Burden is the heaviest (heaviest).
Every man thinketh his
Burden is the heaviest (heaviest).
Ya still mean it: Who feels it knows it, Lord;
Who feels it knows it, Lord;
Who feels it knows it, Lord;
Who feels it knows it, Lord.
But ya can't run away from yourself.
Could ya run away from yourself?
Can you run away from yourself?
Can't run away from yourself!
Can't run away from yourself!
Yeah-eah-eah-eah - from yourself.
Brr - you must have done somet'in' Somet'in' - somet'in' - somet'in' Somet'in' ya don't want nobody to know about:
Ya must have, Lord - somet'in' wrong,
What ya must have done - ya must have done
somet'in' wrong.
Why you can't find where you belong?
But the ones who sets 'em up.
Well, well, well, well, ya running away, heh, no

Ya running away, ooh, no, no, no,
I'm not (running away), no, don't say that - don't
say that,
'Cause (running away) I'm not running away,
ooh! (running away)
I've got to protect my life, (running away)
And I don't want to live with no strife. (running
away)
It is better to live on the housetop (running
away)
Than to live in a house full of confusion.
(running away)
So, I made my decision and I left ya; (running
away)
Now you comin' to tell me (running away)
That I'm runnin' away. (running away)
But it's not true, (running away)
I am not runnin' away. (running away) /fadeout/
Time alone - oh, time will tell:

Think you're in heaven, but ya living in hell;
Think you're in heaven, but ya living in hell.
Ya think you're in heaven, but ya living in hell.
Time will tell

Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-hm! Ooh-oo-oo-oo-er.
Mm-mm-mm.
Jah would never give the power to a baldhead
Run come crucify the Dread.
Ya think you're in heaven, but ya living in hell.
Back them up; oh, not the brothers,
Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
Oh, ma ...................
Oh, ma ...................
Oh, ma children are cryin'.
Oh, children, weep no more!
Oh, ma sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree.
All you ... have spoke:
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.
Live!
Trenchtown rock
fell no pain (repeat)
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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
( ... )
Burnin' and lootin'

Let the roots man take a blow.
All them drugs gonna make you slow;
It's not the music of the ghetto.
This morning I woke up in a curfew;

O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality.
Eh!
How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have lost;
We must have really paid the cost.
(That's why we gonna be)
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
(One more thing)
Burnin' all pollution tonight;
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin' all illusion tonight.
Oh, stop them!
All them drugs gonna make you slow now;
It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight;
(Ooh, can't stop the tears!)
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight;
(We've been suffering these long, long-a years)
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight
(Will you say cheer?)
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight
We gonna be burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;

(To survive, yeah!)
(Save your babies' lives)
Burning all pollution tonight;
(Pollution ... )
Burning all illusion tonight
(Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!)
Burning all pollution tonight. /fadeout/
Them belly full ( But we hungry )
Na-na na na-na na na na.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A yot a-yook, but d' yood no 'nough.
You're gonna dance to Jah music, dance;
We're gonna dance to Jah music, dance, oh-ooh!
Forget your troubles and dance!
Forget your sorrows and dance!
Forget your sickness and dance!
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Forget your weakness and dance!
You're gonna lively up yourself 'cause I said so!
Cost of livin' gets so high,

Rich and poor they start to cry:
Now the weak must get strong;
They say, "Oh, what a tribulation!"
A pot a-yook, but d' yood* no 'nough.
Hear what you gonna do:

You rock so, you rock so, like you never did
before, yeah!
You dip so, you dip so: dip through my door.
You come so, you come so, oh yeah!
You skank so, you skank so: be alive today!
We're gonna chuck to Jah music - chuckin';

We're chuckin' to Jah music - we're chuckin'.
--/Guitar solo/
--A belly full, but them hungry;
A pot a-cook, but d' food* no 'nough.
A hungry man is a angry man;
A pot a-yook, but you no 'nough'
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough.
A pot a-cook, but you no 'nough;
A hungry mob is a angry mob;
A hungry mob is a angry mob. /fadeout/
[* Sheet music gives this line as: "A pot a cook
but you no' nough".]
Lively up yourself
You're gonna lively up yourself, and don't be no
drag;
bag.
You lively up yourself, and don't say, "No";
You're gonna lively up yourself, and don't say,

"No";
You lively up yourself, big daddy says so, y'all!
You lively up yourself, and don't be no drag;
bag.
What you got that I don't know?
I'm a-trying to wonder - wonder - wonder why
you wonder - wonder why you act so. Yeah!
Hey, do you hear what the man seh?
Lively up your(self) - your woman in the
morning time, y'all!
Wa! Keep a liv'lin' up your woman when the
evening come
And take ya* - take ya - take ya - take ya-a-a!
Come on, baby! 'Cause I wanna be lively
myself, y'all!
--/Organ, saxophone and guitar solo/
--Lively up yourself;
Lively up yourself.
You want to rock so, you rock so:
--/Saxophone solo/
---
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 you got in de other bag you got hanging
there?
What you say you got?
I don't believe you!
[* Sheet music gives this line as: "And take her
take ya."]
No woman no cry
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
Said - said - said: I remember when we used to
sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we
meet.
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've
lost
Along the way.
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh.
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
'Ere, little darlin', don't shed no tears:
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No, woman, no cry.

Said - said - said: I remember when-a we used
to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
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, I mean:
I said, everything's gonna be all right-a!
Everything's gonna be all right, now!
So, woman, no cry;
No - no, woman - woman, no cry.
Woman, little sister, don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
--/Guitar solo/
--I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
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:
No, woman, no cry;

No, woman, no cry.
Woman, little darlin', say don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
It was I shot the sheriff,

But I (didn't shoot no deputy) I didn't shoot no deputy. (Oo-ooh)
No-no-no-no-no!
Eh! (Little darlin', don't shed no tears!

No, woman, no cry.
Little sister, don't shed no tears!
No, woman, no cry.)
Freedom came my way one day

And I started out of town, yeah!
Then all of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown,
He was aiming to shoot I down;
So I shot, yes, I shot - shot him down and I say,
yeah:
I shot the sheriff

(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, oo-ooh.)
All around in my home town,
They tryin' to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the life of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say, yeah:
By-by-by - I shot the sheriff,

Love, I didn't shoot no deputy. (oh, no! Oh!)
It was I shot the sheriff,
But I didn't shoot no deputy. (Oo-ooh)

But I swear it was in selfdefence.)
I swear it was in selfdefence, yea-ea-eah!
It was I who shot the sheriff,
(And they say it is a) capital offence. (Oo-ooh)
And so - and so, read it!

But I didn't shoot no deputy. Oh no, oh!
I shot the sheriff,
But I didn't shoot no deputy. Oo-ooh.)
Sheriff John Brown always hates me,

For what, I don't know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He say, "Kill them before they grow" He say, "Kill them before they grow", now.
And so, yeah - and so:
Get up, Stand up
I shot the sheriff.

But I didn't shoot no deputy. (Oh no! Oh!)
Preacherman, don't tell me,

Heaven is under the earth.
Reflexes had the better of me

And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket goes to the well,
I say, one day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom will drop out.

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I know you don't know

What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!
Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!
Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)

Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the
fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)
We sick an' tired of-a your *ism-skism game Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a 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 (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah,
yeah!)
Oh, you better:

Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our
rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't
give it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! /fadeout/
[*Norman Redington gives: "easing, kissing
game"]
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African Herbsman

Get Up, Stand Up

And not being clever?

If you are the big, big tree

These are the words

Yes, me friend, me friend

(you feel no pain)

(Trenchtown rock), if you a big fish or sprat

(... how quick they had to part)

African herbsman, why linger on?

Lord, I've got to keep on moving

Lord, they're coming after me

Why's this fussing and a-fighting?

We should really love each other (love each

There you are, cryin' again

Why's this fussing and a-fighting?

(How could I ...) Could I be so wrong

(Stop your fussing and fighting, stop your

There you are, cryin' again

Oh, what a (... feeling ...), what a feeling (... be

One love, one heart

Huh, please don't you rock my boat

We gotta get together, join each other

Got to have kaya now

I'm happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, and not

I'm so high, I even touch the sky

Feel them spirit

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah

Got to have kaya now

Feel alright now

When the mornin' gather the rainbow, yeah,

I'm gonna put it on, I put it on already

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now

I'm not boastin'

Can you understand me now, baby?

I rule my destiny, yeah

I feel so high, I even touch the sky

You've been riding

(keep on jiving), ooh (keep on jiving)

You've been jiving

Coming through to a poor man's child, oohwee, look at this

Instead of concrete jungle (la la-la!),

Concrete jungle (la la-la!):

Concrete jungle (la-la!): baby, you've got it in.

Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,

What do you stand(?) for me (la-la!), now?

Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh. Oo-oo-ooh! Oo-oo-ooh.

O God, have mercy on our souls!

Way too long! (wo-o-o-o)

They just can't even find no food at all.

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

Little darlin', stir it up! O-oh!

Uh, ah-oh-oh! I went downtown, (I went

I think I might join the fun, (I might join the

trouble) no more trouble!