Stiff Necked Fools

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are coolTo deny me for simplicity.Yes, you have gone for so longWith your love for vanity now.Yes, you have got the wrong interpretationMixed up with vain imagination. So take Jah Sun, and Jah Moon,And Jah Rain, and Jah Stars,And forever, yes, erase your fantasy, yea-eah! […]


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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 diedFrom a stray bullet. Woman hold her head and cry;Explaining to her was a passerbyWho saw the woman cry (cry)Wondering how can she work it out,Now she knows that the wages of […]


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Real Situation

Check out the real situation:Nation war against nation.Where did it all begin?When will it end?Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution,And there ain’t no use: no one can stop them now.Ain’t no use: nobody can stop them now. Give them an inch, they take a yard;Give them a […]


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Give Thanks And Praises

Give thanks and praises to the Most-I (Jah!);Give thanks and praises so high (so high).He will not deceive us my brethren;He will only lead us again (again):Oh, take that veil from off of your eyes;Look into the future of realize. Noah had three sons, Ham, Shem and Japhet (Ham, Shem […]


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Ride Natty Ride

Dready got a job to doAnd he’s got to fulfill that missionTo see his hurt is theirGreatest ambitionBut we’ll surviveIn this world of competition‘Cause no matter what they doNatty keep on comin thruAnd no matter what they sayNatty de deh every day Natty Dread rides againThru the mystics of tomorrowNatty […]


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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 […]


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Concrete Jungle

No sun will shine in my day todayThe hich yellow moon won’t come out to playI said darkness has covered my lightAnd the stage my day into nightWhere is the love to be foundWon’t someone tell meCause life must be somewhere to be foundInstead of concrete jungleWhere the living is […]


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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 sitIn the government yard in Trenchtown,Oba – obaserving the ‘ypocritesAs they would mingle with the good people we meet.Good friends we have, oh, good friends we’ve […]


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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 raindropsreminds 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 […]


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Crazy Baldheads

Them crazy, them crazyWe gonna chase those crazyBaldheads out of townChase those crazy baldheadsOut of town I and I build a cabinI and I plant the cornDidn’t my people before meSlave for this countryNow you look me with a scornThen you eat up all my corn We gonna chase those […]


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Keep On Moving

Lord I got to keep on movingLord I got to get on downLord I’ve got to keep on movingWhere I can’t be found, where I can’t be foundLord they coming after me I’ve been accused on my missionJAH knows you shouldn’t doFor hanging me they were willing yeah! yeah!And that’s […]


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Slave Driver

Slave driver the table is turnedCatch a fire so you can get burnedSlave driver the table is turnedCatch a fire you’re gonna get burned Ev’ry time I hear a crack of the whipMy blood runs cold I remember on the slave shipHow they brutalised their very soulsToday they say that […]


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Survival

(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)Yeah, yeah, yeah!How can you be sitting thereTelling me that you care –That you care?When every time I look around,The people suffer in the sufferingIn everyway, in everywhere. Say: na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!):We’re the survivors, yes: the Black survivors!I tell you what: some people got everything;Some people got nothing;Some […]


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Roots, Rock, Reggae

Play I some music, this a reggae music [repeat]Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music [repeat] Hey Mister Music, sure sounds good to meI can’t refuse it, what to be got to beFeel like dancing, dance cause we are freeFeel like dancing, come dance with me Roots rock reggae, this […]


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Revolution

Revelation reveals the truth – revelation.(revolution, revolution, revolution – oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo)(revolution – oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo) It takes a revolution (revolution) to make a solution;(doo-doo-doo-doo)Too much confusion (aaa-aaah), so much frustration, eh!I don’t wanna live in the park (live in the park);Can’t trust no shadows after dark (shadows after dark), yeah-eh!So, my friend, I […]


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