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

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

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

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

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

Whoa-A Natty Congo
A Dreadlock Congo
Whoa-A Natty Congo
A Blackman Redemption

Wooo-ohhhh
Old Mr. Joe he build a house, yeah
On top of some hill
Old Mr. Joe knew he had to go, so
He got right down and wrote a will
He say now here is to mother hen, and her chicken,
lord have mercy now
Master will you take a roll in the mud,
like he know he should

Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta
There was a Buffalo Soldier
In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival

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

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

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

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

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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 coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in
Coming in from the cold

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

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

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

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

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

Craven a go choke puppy
Can you dig it

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Yes me friend
We de a street again
Yes me friend (me good friend)
Dem say we're free again
The bars could not hold me
Force could not control me, now
They try to keep me down
But Jah put I around
Yes, I've been accused (many a times)
And wrongly abused, now
But through the powers of the most-high
They've got to turn me loose
Don't try to cold me up on this bridge,
now I've got to reach mount zion -
The highest region
So if you're a bull-bucker,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror!
Yes me friend (me good friend)
We de a street again
Yes me friend (me good friend)
Dem say we're free again
So don't try to cold me up on this bridge,
now I've got to reach mount zion -
The highest region
So if you're a bull-bucker,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror!
Yes me friend Dem say we're free again, oh, oh yeah!
Yes me friend Dem set me free again

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

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

Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!
Before ya doubt me let me tell ya this:
Men and people will fight ya down (Tell me why!)
When ya see Jah light. (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 tribulations.

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We'll be forever loving jah
We'll be forever loving jah

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

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

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

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

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Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times) Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth I know you don't know what life is really worth Is not all that glitters in gold and Half the story has never been told So now you see the light, aay Stand up for your right.

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

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

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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-eah-eah-eah.

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

Chorus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I am on the rock and then I check a stock
I have to run like a fugitive to save the life I live
I'm gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion (repeat)
Iron Lion Zion
I'm on the run but I ain't got no gun
See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying Iron like a Lion in Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion,
Iron Lion Zion

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

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

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

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Jah Live
Children yeah
Jah Jah Live children yeah
Jah Live
Children yeah
Jah Jah Live children yeah

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

coun t?

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

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