
Date of issue: 18.12.2016
Record label: Bunny Lee
Song language: English
Dub of African Roots |
I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid, |
I blew it all at the penny arcade, |
A hundred dollars on a cupid doll, |
No pretty chick is gonna make me crawl, |
And I teetered the way to the promised land, |
Every woman, child and man, |
Get your caddilac and a great big diamond ring, |
Don’t you know you’re riding with the king? |
He’s on a mission of mercy, to the new fronteir, |
He’s gonna take us all outta’here, |
Up to that mansion, on a hill, |
Where you can get your prescription pill |
And I teetered the way to the promised land, |
Everybody clap your hands, |
And don’t you dirts love the way that he sings? |
Don’t you know you’re riding with the king? |
You’re riding with the king! |
Don’t you know you’re riding with the king? |
A tuxedo and a shining green burning five, |
You can see it in his face, the blues is alive, |
Tonight everybody’s getting their angel wings, |
Don’t you know you’re riding with the king? |
I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old, |
With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold. |
I had a guitar hanging just about waist high, |
And I’m gonna play this thing until the day I die. |
Don’t you know you’re riding with the king? |
Don’t you know you’re riding with the king? |
(You're riding with me baby) |
(You got good hands) |
(Yes, you’re riding with the king) |
(I wanted to say B.B. King, but you know who the king is) |
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King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown ft. Augustus Pablo | 1976 |
King Tubby V Owen Gray Pt 20 ft. Owen Gray | 2017 |
African Roots ft. King Tubby | 2012 |
Horning Version | 2014 |
Judgement On Dub | 2005 |
Get Ready For The Master Dub | 2005 |
Mr Chatter Box | 2000 |
Judgement Dub | 2012 |
Kingston Town Dub ft. The Dynamites | 2016 |
African Tribe Dub | 2014 |
Roots of Africa | 2017 |
Sunshine Dub (gussie p) ft. Gussie P | 2012 |
King Tubby V I-Roy Pt 14 ft. I-Roy | 2017 |
AfroDub | 2016 |
Waiting in the Park Dub | 2017 |
Mr. Chatter Box | 2014 |
Root of Africa ft. King Tubby | 2017 |