Now that the wolves Start shed clothing There’ll be less confusion Not much carousing Jah, you’re the Strength of my life Of whom I and I must be afraid Purify, purify my soul Quench our thirts with water Woman went to fill Her water pot Down in the bottom Of Jah well Jah gave her [...]
Live and give The best of your ability Live and forgive Your brothers and your sisters And if you don’t forgive How do you expect To be forgiven For the many wrongs Of which you have done Causing so many people Not to have nu fun, ay Live and give (etc) Even on a daily [...]
We don’t want no racism We don’t want apartheid oh no no We don’t want no parshality yeah So run come come Stand up and chant it Run come come Come and see wha de gwaan Run come come Yes I man sight it Run come come Come and see wha de gwaan Them so [...]
See you in the morning As the sun rise It’s just another day For you to realize The time is dread Oh, Rasta Children If you stay in these corners They kill you with tax I say I rather to be Where the grass is green always Sitting under a tree Where there’s a running [...]
One day got to be payday Payday, go to haffe come my way Sitting over there Under your false pretense Living so nice Off the poor man’s expense Hungry man got to roam the street I tell you, white squall Is such a terrible threat One day got to be payday Payday coming what may [...]
Now you see my face Do you love me yea I live a Jahful way Do you love me yea I grow my Natty Dreadlocks Do you love me yah I give Praises so high Do you love me yea I take arise in love with Jah Dem a grudge me yah Word a judge [...]
Standing on the corner Reasoning with your bredren You never mean no trouble You never do no harm Taking it cool and calm And a so we a gwaan Gwaan gwaan gwaan Over in the ghetto Tribulaions I know now Never seem to leave I and I bredrens no time at all No time at [...]
Thank God it’s Friday, T.G.I.F. Thank God it’s Friday, T.G.I.F. Monday morning you got to go work Tuesday coming, you trying to make things meet Wednesday dawning, you hear your landlord calling Thursday coming, another slave day Thank God it’s Friday, T.G.I.F. Thank God it’s Friday, T.G.I.F. Thank God it’s Friday, T.G.I.F. Thank God it’s [...]
Oh no, oh no Oh no, oh no Violence in the streets One million running feet Trying to get away From this outrageous gunplay Which seems to make us lack And so it keep us back How will you defeat your enemies ? And you’re so outnumbered Gang war fighting here and there Youth and [...]
Trouble (Lacelle “Wiss” Bulgin) Trouble never set like rain Trouble never set like rain Trouble never set like rain Trouble never set like rain Trouble only bring you pain and sorrow Don’t want that, can’t help our children tomorrow We want for them a brighter future So we rather to teach them rasta leisure Like [...]