1.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.'
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And i hear the angel with the seven seals say：
'babylon throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon throne gone down.'
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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.
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One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
Say one bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
2.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 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;
Got to build our love on 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 ... ／fadeout
3.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.
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.
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)
4.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)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(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？)
Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the roots man take a blow.
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 and a-looting tonight;
Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning all pollution tonight. ／fadeout
5.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)
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!
6.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.
7.Get Up, Stand Up
Get up, stand up：stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up：stand up for your rights!
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!
Get up, stand 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!
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,
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!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! ／fadeout
8.Put It On
Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Lord, i thank you
Lord, i thank you
Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Feel alright now
Lord, i thank you
Lord, i thank you
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
I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
I'm not boastin'
Feel like toastin'
Feel like toastin'
I rule my destiny, yeah
I rule my destiny
I rule my destiny
Lord, i thank you, yeah
Lord, i thank you
No more cryin'
No more cryin'
No more cryin'
Good lord, hear me
Good lord ...
9.Duppy Conqueror
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
10.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
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
And whosoever diggeth a pit
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
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
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
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, uh, bury in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it, uh (... bury in it)
If you are the big, 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, let me tell you that
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
Sharpened ...
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