| Yayayaya Selassie is the almighty I
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| Wo yow, My meditation going like a dove
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| Wo, stop alla keep failing
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| To fulfill black people words, hey
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| King Selassie I me hailing
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| Anna dem go trouble poor people first
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go ge a red
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| 'Fraid, babylon a get 'fraid
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| Anytime now
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| Di prisoners dem a go escape
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| Slave master place a go blaze
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| Anytime now
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| Police dem a go get a red
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| 'Fraid, government a get 'fraid
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon, yuh must get a red
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| Nuff cutchi man nuff a dem run go shave
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| Woi, I’d rather to be
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| With the people I lead
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| Give dem my daily strength
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| And showing dem a dearly need
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| And I’d rather to see
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| More love than grief
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| That’s the only way di ghetto youths a go achieve
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| And I rather to be
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| With the people in need
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| Babylon system only come yah so fi deceive
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| I rather to listen a nah to word receive
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| Dem a go cut di woman breast and bust di man dem seed
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| Mussa perish, long time me see it
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| Black people back up an yard inna di east
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| Tell di Indian say fi go look fi dem chief
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| Tell di white man from a Europe, go island seek
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| Hey, Rastaman no got no secret a keep
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| There will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth
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| Come out inna di clear, behind wall dem a peep
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| Nothing fi di white man, black man nah do it
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| Black woman, stop sweep di white woman street
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| Di ghetto youths go study babylon technique
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| A so me see say
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| Vatican get defeat
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go get a red
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| 'Fraid, Babylon a get 'fraid
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| Anytime now
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| Yah, redder fire deh go blaze
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| Stop treat people like slave
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| Anytime now
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| Di prisoners dem a go escape
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| Too long dem deh in deh yah bake
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go get a red
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| Man haffi go repatriate
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| Dem make dem sattelite and dem launch it a space
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| Mash up di o-zone layer
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| Babylon a fake
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| Sun a burn redder, and it a strip dem face
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| Could deh dem look like all (?) weh dey bake
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| Watch a make di Rastaman deal wid dem case
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| Ask dem dis question before it too late
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| Babylon, a why yuh dump your toxic waste
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| You no see say dat yuh make a big mistake
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| Now tell me who end up like bait
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| Dem hold down black people
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| To send white people through di gate
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| Woi, Rastaman a agitate
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| Revolution, caw we must repatriate
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go get a red
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| 'Fraid di government get fraid
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go get a red
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| Dem seperate we and still wan' enslave
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go get a red
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| And Mister babylon, you nah save
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| Anytime now
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| Babylon dem a go get a red
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| Because di prisoners dem a go escape
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| Di whole a dem a dis di I-ncient of days
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| Got inna di Atlantic Ocean
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| Gone fire dem lace
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| Fi make di iceburg fi return di ice age
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| Di west a go sink when di water table raise
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| Babylon you stink, an yuh wan bad
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| Yo no badda think di youth a tell you dis brave
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| I black mother nah be your maid
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| Work me black father, and dem never get paid
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| Oh, babylon so much a we a come a enslave
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| I build di building, di road dem we pave
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| See dem now, see dem now, see dem now
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| From yuh dis your own a judgement you made
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| (repeat 1st chorus till fade) |