| So was it in the beginning
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| Ni ni ni ni ning
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| And so shall it be in the end
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| Lord woy, na na na na na
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| In the beginning God created everything
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| Jah, Rastafari
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| And everything was created in Africa!
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| Lord woy, na na na na na
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| Repatriate black man
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| Jah, Rastafari
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| Repatriation!
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| Na nai, na na na na na
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| Africa! |
| We coming home we coming home
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| Holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you (never refuse the black one)
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| Holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you (every black a' infant to the mother
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| land)
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| I face a lot of trials and tribulation
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| But through all of that I man still stand strong (stand up strong stand up
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| strong)
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| Giving thanks and praise to the almighty One
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| And looking forward to reach Mount Zion
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| And I man say Zion I’m coming home to you (mama Africa we cry)
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| Holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you
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| And I tell every black man
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| Africa is a flag flowing high inna mi head and inna mi heart
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| Like the father going to Britain carrying the cross
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| Flag flow high inna mi head and inna mi heart
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| Africa di whole a' me it is not half
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| That’s why I say Zion I’m coming home to you (unu better head back home)
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| Teach the yutes dem right but nuh teach them wrong (never, never)
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| Jah call upon the yutes 'cause di yutes are strong (have to be strong)
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| Look to Africa dat a' fi yuh mama land
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| And down a' Africa a' where yuh find Mount Zion
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| And I man say Zion I’m coming home to you
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| Say holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you
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| Africa di motherland
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| Africa nuh refuse no black man
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| Every black man deal wid repatriation
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| But you nuh listen
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| Nuh watch di
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| express man created condition
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| Yuh nuh no say Africa a' where I come from
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| Is there I come from and is there I belong
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| So I’m callin' all black man
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| Redemption song unu better sing it everyone
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| It inna mi head it inna mi heart
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| Mi can’t stop that
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| It tickle fi mi brain and it pressure fi mi heart
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| Mi tell mi history teacher say she
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| 'cause Africa is lifeline, di rod and di staff
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| Oh mama Africa!
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| I man say Zion I’m coming home to you
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| The Bingi man him say Zion
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| I’m coming home to you
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| They said I don’t have no rights inna Babylon
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| Because I don’t know how the West was won
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| Neither I can’t change their plan
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| The West is controlled by the Ku Klux Klan
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| Rastaman, Zion, I’m coming home to you (mount Zion I, haffi I and I)
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| Rasta say Zion, I’m coming home to you (one more time)
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| Holy Mount Zion, I’m coming home to you (I'm going home to you)
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| Africa is a flag flowing high inna mi head and inna mi heart
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| Like di father going through tribulation carrying the cross
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| Flag flowing high inna mi head and inna mi heart
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| Africa di whole a me it’s just not half
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| I say so many rivers I’ve crossed
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| I know mi cross because mi care 'bout mi past…
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| KETTE DRUM RIDDIM — 1995 |