| Give thanks and praise while challis blaze
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| We caught concepcion, Selassie I, correction
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| Crump up our eyes dem man do worship babylon
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| Said, a old mother Wallis
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| I beg you, lend me di challis
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| Let me lick it in di palace, yeah
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| Seh, me lick good challis inna Buckingham palace
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| A we dash away di malice
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| Outta Buckingham palace, yeah
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| Seh, we lick good challis inna Buckingham palace
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| A we chase mister Wallace
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| Said, a old mother Ritty
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| I beg you, lend me your gritty
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| Cause, you no work in equity, mother Ritty
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| Seh dat, you no work in equity, mother Ritty
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| No work in equity, mother Ritty
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| Seh dat, you no work in equity, mother Ritty, yeah
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| We dal it dung a Vatican
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| Have fi go burn down Vatican
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| Have fi go kill two publican
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| When we burn down Vatican
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| Yeah
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| In Sodom and Gomorrah there will be a whole lot of sorrow, yeah
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| (Cah, Lot wife turn a pillar of salt)
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| (Seh, down inna sodom and gomorrah)
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| (Lot wife turn a pillar of salt)
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| Simply because she find too much fault
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| (Said, she turn in a pillar of salt, she turn in a pillar of salt)
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| But, Lot could not worship a vanity or the humble dread
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| Look before man and don’t look back, ye (yeah)
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| (Seh dat, Lot wife turn a pillar of salt)
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| Some so were strong but because have done something wrong
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| (Me lay inna di tree)
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| Simply because him tell him dis truth have fi strengthen him
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| (Me lay inna di tree, him cut off di natty dread)
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| Let di locks grow long inna Babylon
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| So, let di locks grow long
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| Dung inna Babylon, yeah
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| Let di locks grow long inna Babylon
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| Let di locks grow long
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| Seh dat, inna Babylon
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| Let it grow inna Babylon
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| Let it grow 'til it reach your toe
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| Give thanks and praise while challis blaze
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| We caught concepcion, Selassie I, correction
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| Crump up our eyes dem man do worship Babylon and deal with inequity
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| As I pity man was god was like man, I would say
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| Burn down di weakhearted
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| Chant down babylon kingdom
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| Chant down vatican city, yeah
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| Don’t fight!
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| Di dread, dem sight up I-ya (Yes I!)
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| I and I, and I, and I, and I, di humble one
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| 'Cause, you no know dread lion
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| You say, you come from zion
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| Dread lion was the only lion who could have chased outta zion with dem inequity
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| Chase dem, lion, lord, chase
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| Chase dem, dread lion
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| Dread lion is a humble lion with sight up inna zion I |