| This one goes out to yard and abroad
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| Guns import from abroad to the yard
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| Dog a eat dog, yet a bere mawga dog
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| The system is a fraud — memba dat!
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| So why down inna the city so cold?
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| Only Ras Tafari know
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| And man a reap, what dem never did sow
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| And dem a say a true no money nah flow
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| Why down inna the city so cold?
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| Only Ras Tafari know
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| Politician walk with them ego
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| And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 — O
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| Swoop in, blue light that a flash up & down
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| Kick off the door, fi go snatch a man gun
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| Rude bwoys and police dem a clash a Jamdung
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| Youth squeeze the trigger and him catch a phantom
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| Corn start to beat like dem bang a one drum
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| You better jump fence when the banger dem come
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| Politician dem hear say that the quarrel just done
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| Start distribute gun, a fresher barrel just come
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| And Johnny say that him a hold the strap
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| Chest puff up and a chat, him control the block
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| But when him take a stack, is a soldier that
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| Him get flat, and fire shot, clap! |
| The soldier drop
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| Boof! |
| Him say him cold and him nuh feel sorrow
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| Trod it on the road side that real narrow
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| Phone start to ring then him feel paro
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| Friend lef him pon the ground like a wheelbarrow
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| So why down inna the city so cold?
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| Only Ras Tafari know
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| And man a reap, what dem never did sow
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| And dem a say a true no money nah flow
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| Why down inna the city so cold?
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| Only Ras Tafari know
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| Politician walk with them ego
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| And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 — O
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| The juvenile dem a run dem gang
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| The thugs dem short but the gun dem long
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| And likkle man, you might be number 1
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| But if you playing this ya game you better understand something
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| Or a better mi say overstand
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| Shotta a move like some soldier man
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| Bigger dog start fi bark like a doberman
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| Likkle dog have to run go to obeah man then
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| Him gone a shop go buy a cold dragon
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| Pow! |
| Hear something pop like a soda can, and
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| Him run up inna a colder man
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| Weh a go lef him in the dirt like a pound a yam, damn!
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| Full clip it nah go hold no blank
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| Man a buss it til dem shoulder cramp
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| Dem a play domino and as him pose the blank
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| Him hear clank! |
| Life couldn’t save a Scotia Bank
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| So why down inna the city so cold?
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| Only Ras Tafari know
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| And man a reap, what dem never did sow
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| And dem a say a true no money nah flow
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| Why down inna the city so cold?
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| Only Ras Tafari know
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| Politician walk with them ego
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| And rude bwoy war 'gainst the 5 — O
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| Bim! |
| This one goes out to yard and abroad
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| Gun import from abroad to mi yard
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| So how politician don’t get hold pon nuh charge?
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| The system is a fraud
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| Yard and Abroad
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| Who nah walk with the 'matic, walking with a standard
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| You step inna the street then you better stand guard
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| The system is a fraud, check the track record
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| Mi nah stop record
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| — Selassie I; |
| Empress Menen I |