Get Up, Stand Up
Hallelujah Time
I Shot The Sheriff
Burnin' And Lootin'
Put It On
Small Axe
Pass It On
Duppy Conqueror
One Foundation
Rasta Man Chant
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me Heaven is under the earth I know you don't know What life is really worth It's not all thm glitters is gold Half the story has never been told So now you see the light Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight Most people think Great good will come from the skies Take away everything And make everybody feel high But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth And now you've seen the light You stand up for your rights
Hear the children cryin', but I know they cry not in vain. Now the times are changin'. Love has come to bloom again Smelling the air when spring comes by raindrops reminds us of youthful days But now it's not rain that water the cane crops But the sweat from man's brow the substance from our spine We gotta keep on living, living on borrowed time (Chorus:) Hallelujah time! Yes, you can hear the children singing Hallelujah time! As they go singing by and by Hallelujah time! Oh, "hallelujah" singing in the morning Hallelujah time! Let them sing, don't let them cry Over rocks and mountains the sheep are scattered all around Over hills and valleys, they are everywhere to be found But though we bear our burdens now, all afflictions got to end somehow From swinging the hammer, pulling the plough Why won't you let us be, to live in harmony? We like to be free like birds in a tree Hallelujah time! Yes, you can hear the children singing. Hallelujah time! Yes, as they go singing by and by. Hallelujah time! Oh "hallelujah" singing in the morning. Let them sing; never let them cry. Hallelujah time! "Hallelujah" singin' in the morning. (chorus)
I shot the sheriff But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no I shot the sheriff But I didn't shoot no deputy, Ooh, ooh, ooh All around in my home town They're trying to track me down They say they want to bring me in guilty For the killing of a deputy For the life of a deputy (But I say) I shot the sheriff But I swear it was in selfdefence I shot the sheriff And they say it is a capital offence Sheriff John Brown always hated me For what, I don't know Every time I plant a seed He said kill it before it grow He said kill them before they grow (Read it in the news) I shot the sheriff But I swear it was in self-defence (Where was the deputy?) I shot the sheriff (but I swear it was in selfdefence) Freedom came my way one day And I started out of town, yeah All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown Aiming to shoot me down So I shot - I shot him down and I say If I'm guilty I will pay I shot the sheriff But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no I shot the sheriff But I didn't shoot no deputy Reflexes had got the better of me And what is to be must be Every day the bucket a go a well One day the bottom a go drop out One day the bottom a go drop out
This morning I woke up in a curfew Oh god, I was a prisoner too - yeah Could not recognise the faces standing over me They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality How many rivers do we have to cross Before we can talk to the boss All that we got seems lost We must have really paid the cost (That's why we gonna be) Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (Say we gonna burn and loot) Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (One more thing) Burnin all pollution tonight (Oh yeah, yeah) Burning all illusions tonight Oh stop them Give me the food and let me grow Let the roots man take a blow All them drugs gonna make you slow now It's not the music of the ghetto Weeping and a-wailing tonight (Ooh can't stop the tears) Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight (We've been suffering all these long, long years) Weeping and a-wailing tonight Give me the food and let me grow Let the roots man take a blow All them drugs gonna make you slow now It's not the music of the ghetto We gonna be burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (To survive, yeah) Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight (Save your babies lives) Burning all pollution tonight Burning all illusions tonight Burning all pollution tonight Burning all illusions tonight
Feel them spirit Feel them spirit Feel them spirit Lord i thank you Lord i thank you Feel all right now Feel all right now Feel all right now Good lord hear me Good lord hear me I'm not boasting I'm not boasting I'm not boasting, yeah Feel like toasting Feel like toasting Simply 'cause I'm gonna put it on (In the morning) I'm gonna put tt on (In the night) I'm gonna put it on (Anytime anywhere) Good lord help me Good lord help me Do-do-do-be-do-do Do-do-do-be-do-do Do-do-do-be-do-do Do-do-do-be-do-do No more crying No more crying No more crying Lord I thank you Lord I thank you I'm gonna put it on (In the morning) I'm gonna put tt on (In the night) I'm gonna put it on (Anytime anywhere) Good lord help me Good lord help me
Why boasteth thyself, oh evil men Playing smart and not being clever I say you're working inequity To achieve vanity yeah But the goodness of jah, jah I'doreth for iver If you are a big tree. We are the small axe Sharpened to cut you down Ready to cut you down, oh yeah These are the words of my master Telling me that no weak heart shall prosper Oh no they can't And whosoever diggeth a pit Shall fall in it (fall in it) Whosoever diggeth a pit Shall bury in it (bury in it) If you are a big tree. We are the small axe Sharpened to cut you down Ready to cut you down Whosoever diggeth the pit Shall fall in it (fall in it) Whosoever diggeth the pit Shall bury in it (bury in it) If you are a big tree. We are the small axe Sharpened to cut you down Ready to cut you down
What your hands do It's your own eyes that've seen So won't you judge your actions To make sure the results are clean It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody elses That is gonna judge Be not selfish in your doings Pass it on Help your brothers in their needs Pass it on Live for yourself and you will llve in valn Live for others you wlll live again In the kingdom of jah Man shall rein Pass it on Pass it on Pass it on Pass it on What's in the darkness Must be revealed to light We're not here to judge what's good from bad But to do the things that are rlght On a hot, sunny day Follow the shadows for rescue But as the day grows old I know the sun is gonna find you Be not selfish in your doings Pass it on Help your brothers in their needs Pass it on
Yes me friend We de a street again Yes me friend (me good friend) Dem say we're free again The bars could not hold me Force could not control me, now They try to keep me down Butjah put I around Yes, I've been accused (many a times) And wrongly abused, now But through the powers of the most-high They've got to turn me loose Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now I've got to reach mount zion - The highest region So if you're a bull-bucker, Let me tell you this - I'm a duppy conqueror Yes me friend We de a street again Yes me friend (me good friend) Dem say we're free again Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now I've got to reach mount zion - The highest region So if you're a bull-bucker, Let me tell you this - I'm a duppy conqueror Yes my friend Dem say we're free again Yes me friend Dem set de a street again
Got to build our love on one foundation Got to build our love on one foundatlon Got to build our love on one foundation Or there wlll never be no love at all There will never be no love at all Got to put aside them segregation Got to put aside them organisation We got to put aside them denomination Or there will never be no love at all There will never be no love at all Got to build our love on one foundation Got to build our love on one foundatlon Got to build our love on one foundation Got to come together 'Cause we're birds of a feather We got to come together 'Cause we're birds of a feather Or there will never be no love at all There will never be no love at all Got to realise we are all one people Got to realise we are all one people We got to realise we are all one people Or there will never be no love at all Or there will never be no love at all Got to build our love on one foundation Got to build our love on one foundatlon Got to build our love on one foundation
I hear the words of the rasta man say Babylon you throne gone down, gone down Babylon you throne gone down Said, I hear the words of the higher man say Babylon you throne gone down, gone down Babylon you throne gone down And I hear the angel with the seven seals Babylon your throne's gone down, gone down Babylon you throne gone down I say fly away home to zion, fly away home I say fly away to zion, fly away home One bright morning when my work is over Man will fly away home One bright morning when my work is over Man will fly away home One brlght morning when my work is over Man will fly away home I say fly away home to zion, fly away home I say fly away to zion, fly away home One bright morning when my work is over Man will fly away home