One Foundation

Got to build our love on one foundation;Got to build our love on one foundation;Got to build our love on one foundation. 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 […]


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One Drop

Feel it in the one dropWell, I still find time to rapWe’re making the one stopThe generation gapSo feel this drumbeatAs it beats within playing a rhythmResisting against the system Ooh-we I know Jah would never let us downPull your rights from wrongI know Jah would never let us downOh […]


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400 Years

400 years (400 years, 400 years. Wo-o-o-o)And it’s the same –The same (wo-o-o-o) philosophyI’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 […]


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Pass It On

What your hands do,It’s your own eyes that’ve seen.So won’t you judge your actionsTo make sure the results are clean? It’s your own conscienceThat is gonna remind youThat it’s your heart and nobody else’sThat is gonna judge. Be not selfish in your doings:Pass it on. (Pass it on, children)Help your […]


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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-oo-oo!)Cold ground was my bed last night (bed last 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 […]


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Coming In From The Cold

In this life, in this life, in this life,In this, oh sweet life:We’re (we’re coming in from the cold);We’re coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),Coming in from the cold. It’s you – it’s you – it’s you I’m talkin’ to –Well, […]


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Rat Race

Ah! Ya too rudeOh what a rat raceOh what a rat raceThis is the rat race Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacketOh what a rat race, rat race Some a gorgan, some a hooligan, some a guine-gogIn this rat race, yeah!Rat raceI’m singingWhen the cats awayThe mice […]


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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)Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya),For the rain is fallin’! We-e-e-e-e-ell, I feel so high, I even […]


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Rastaman Live Up!

Rastaman, live up!Bongoman, don’t give up!Congoman, live up, yeah!Binghi-man don’t give up!Keep your culture:Don’t be afraid of the vulture!Grow your dreadlock:Don’t be afraid of the wolf-pack! Rastaman, live up!Binghi-man, don’t give up!Congoman, live up, yeah!Bongoman, don’t give up! David slew Goliath with a sling and a stone;Samson slew the Philistines […]


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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, […]


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Is this love

I wanna love you and treat you rightI wanna love you every day and every nightWe’ll be together with a roof right over our headsWe’ll share the shelter of my single bedWe’ll share the same room, yeah, for Jah provide the breadIs this love, is this love, is this loveIs […]


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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 boatOh, 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, […]


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All In One

Bend down lowLet me tell you what I know nowBend down lowLet me tell you what I know, what I know, what I know Long time, we no have no nice timeDoo-yoo-doo-dun-doo, yeah, think about thatLong, long, long, long time, we no have no nice timeDoo-yoo-doo-dun-doo, yeah, think about that, […]


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African Herbsman

All twinklin’ leeCan’t see the right rose when the streams abateThe old slave men might grind slowBut it grinds fine, yeah African herbsman, why linger on?Just concentrate, ’cause heaven lives onGreet-I-eth slave men will look with a scornWith a transplanted heart (yes, how quick they had to part)(… how quick […]


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Africa Unite

Africa unite‘Cause we’re moving right out of BabylonAnd we’re going to our Father’s land How good and how pleasant it would beBefore God and manTo see the unification of all AfricansAs it’s been said alreadyLet it be done right nowWe are the children of the RastamanWe are the children of […]


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