| Hail to the High owner of Iration and his Imperial Majesty
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| Emperor Haile Selassie I
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| I’m from a place where there’s only love
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| Where the sun comes home every morning
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| Be upright black people and love Jah works
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| In praises I and I chant with the rising
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| Step away, get away, from the sinking sand
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| Never you disobey, yow, Selassie I the conquering lion
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| The again
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| Then a wah dat the whole a them a gwaab with?
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| Who that the bugger them go par with?
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| Them go bow and go stoop themselves low
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| Rasta man a trod it up, it’s like them never know.
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| Wah dat the whole a them a gwaan with?
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| Who that the bugger them go par with?
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| Them go bow and go stoop themselves low
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| Rasta man a trod it up, it’s like them just a know.
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| In a them yah time a them blind
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| Them no see sey that a Rasta Far I time
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| See sey that a bad company nah go join
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| See sey that a obeah man friend them go find
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| Nuff a them skin teeth, no pay them any mind
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| Look a who fa tree nuff run go climb
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| See sey that a another man them a grind
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| Love me black woman, me nah go leave her behind
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| Babylon you like to carry evil from mind
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| Blacker are the lion and you are the swine
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| Caan sell me out fi two pence nor coin
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| Caan hitch me up like dirty clothes pon no line
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| Them yah judgement caan rewind
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| Unnuh better incline
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| Higher property from this time
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| Me tell you, never show your enemies your strees
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| Cause they will bring the wicked man into your place
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| Fire me deh burn, so tell the Eden make haste
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| Me go see sey a time them a waste
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| This a no the tooth, this a no the paste
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| This a no the boot, this a no the lace
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| This a no the glasses way deh pon your face
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| Fire I a bun, so tell the Eden make haste
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| Tell them black up the belt, I come and take your place
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| Repatriation we still agitate
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| Tell them righteousness youths a anticipate
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| Tell them this is faith
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| Emperor Selassie a no fake
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| Upper level them a try fi disguise
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| In a the spiritual level
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| Melt away, sey deh tell me that nothing can be hidden
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| Emperor Selassie I the only Christ ever
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| King Emmanuel give me the lesson |