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NATTY DREAD

Lively Up Yourself
No Woman No Cry
Them Belly Full
Rebel Music
So Jah Seh
Natty Dread
Bend Down Low
Talkin' Blues
Revolution

LIVELY UP YOURSELF

You're gonna lively up yourself
And don't be no drag,
You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself and don't say no
You're gonna lively up yourself cause I said so

(Hear what you gonna do)
You rock so you rock so like you never did before
You dip so you dip so, dip thru my door
You come so you come so oh yeah
You skank so you skank so be alive today

You're gonna lively up yourself and don't say no
You lively up yourself big daddy says so
You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag

What you got that I don't know
I'm a trying to wonder why you act so
(Hey, do you hear what the man seh?)
Lively up your woman in the morning time you'all
Keep a lively up your woman when the evening come
And take her take ya.

You rock so you rock so you dip so you dip so
You skank so you skank so and don't be no drag
You come so you come so for reggae is another bag.

Get what you got in that bag
What have you got in the other bag
You got hanging there?
What you say you got?
I don't believe you!

NO WOMAN NO CRY

No woman no cry
No woman no cry
No woman no cry
No woman no cry

Cause I remember when we used to sit
In a government yard in trenchtown
Observing the hypocrites
Mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we have lost
Along the way
In this great future, you can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I seh

No woman no cry
No woman no cry
Little darlin, don't shed no tears
No woman no cry

Said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire lights
I seh, log would burnin' thru the nights
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
And so I've got to push on thru,
Oh, while I'm gone,
Everything's gonna be alright
Everyihing's gonna be alright

No woman no cry
No woman no cry
I seh little darlin' don't shed no tears
No woman no cry

THEM BELLY FULL (BUT WE HUNGRY)

Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a cook but the food no 'nough

You're gonna dance to jah music, dance,
We're gonna dance to jah music, dance,

Forget your troubles and dance,
Forget your sorrows and dance,
Forget your sickness and dance,
Forget your weakness and dance

Cost of livin' gets so high
Rich and poor they start to cry
Now the weak must get strong
They say oh, what a tribulation
Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a cook but you no 'nough

We're gonna chuck to jah music chuckin'
We're chuckin' to jah music, we're chuckin'

Belly full but them hungry.
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a cook but the food no 'nough
A hungry mob is an angry mob

REBEL MUSIC (3 O'CLOCK ROADBLOCK)

I, rebel music
I, rebel music
Why can't we roam this open country
Oh why can't we be what we want to be
We want to be free

3 o'clock - roadblock, curfew
And I've got to throw away
Yes I've got to throw away
Yes I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk

I, rebel music
I, rebel music

Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock - roadblock
And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
(What you say down there)
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now

I, rebel music
I, rebel music
Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock - roadblock
And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
(What you say down there)
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now.

SO JAH SEH

So jah seh,
Not one of my seeds,
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg bread
(No they can't and you know that they won't)

So jah seh,
Not one of my seeds.
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg your bread.
(No they can't and you know that they won't)
And verily, verily, I'm saying unto thee I
Inite oneself and love imanity
Cause puss and dog get together
What's wrong with loving one another
Puss and dog they get together
What's wrong with you my brother

So jah seh
Ye are the sheep of my pasture
So verily, thou shall be very well
So jah seh,
Ye are the sheep of my pasture
So verily, thou shall be very well
So jah seh,

And down here in the ghetto
And down here we suffer
I and I a hang on in there
And I and I, I naw leggo
I and I a hang on in there
and I an I, I naw leggo

For so jah seh
I'm gone to prepare a place
That where I am thou shall abide
So jah seh
Fear not for mighty dread
Cause I'll be there at your side

And down there, down there in the ghetto
And down there, we suffer
But I and I hang on in there
And I and I, I naw leggo
So jah seh

NATTY DREAD

Dread natty dread now
Dreadlock congo bongo I
Natty dreadlock in a babylon
A dreadlock congo bongo I
Children get your culture
And don't stay there and gesture
Oh the battle will be hotter
And you won't get no supper

Natty dread, natty dread now
A dreadlock congo bongo I
Natty dreadlock in a babylon
Roots natty roots natty


Then I walk up the first street
And then I walk up the second street to see
Then I trod on thru third street
And then I talk to some dread on fourth street
Natty dreadlock in a fifth street
And then I skip one fence to sixth street
I've got to reach seventh street
Natty dreadlock congo bongo I
Natty dread, natty dread now
Roots natty congo I

Oh, natty, natty,
Natty 21,000 miles away from home,
Oh, natty, natty,
And that's a long way
For natty to be from home

Don't care what the world seh
I and I couldn't nevergo astray
Just like a bright and sunny day
Oh we're gonna have things our way
Natty dread, natty dreadlock
Dreadlock congo, bongo I
Don't care what the world seh
I and I gonna have things ourway
If a egg natty in a the red

BEND DOWN LOW

Bend down low, let me tell you what I know
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know
Fisherman row, to reep what you sow now
Tell you all i know, you've got to let me go now
All you've got to do is
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know

You keep on knockin but you can't come in
I get to understand you been livin in sin
But if you love me woman walk right in
I've got a notch for your safety-pin
Bend down low

Keep on knockin but you can't come in
I get to understand you been livin in sin
But walk right in woman, sit right down
I will keep on loving you,
I will play the clown

Bend down low, let me tell you what I know
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know

TALKIN' BLUES

Yeah oh yeah
Cold ground was my bed last night
And rock was my pillow too
Cold ground was my bed last night
And rock was my pillow too

I'm saying talkin blues, talkin blues
They say your feet is just too big for your shoes
Talkin blues, talkin blues
Your feet is just too big for your shoes

I've been down on the rock for so long
I seem to wear a permanent screw
I've been down on the rock for so long
I seem to wear a permanent screw
But I'm gonna stare in the sun,
Let the rays shine in my eyes
I'm a gonna take a just a one step more
Cause I feel like bombing a church
Now that you know that the preacher is lying
So who's gonna stay at home
When the freedom fighters are fighting

Talking blues, talking blues
They say your feet is just too big for your shoes
Talkin blues, keep on talkin blues
They say, you hear what they say,
Didn't you hear

Cold ground was my bed last night,
Rockstone was my pillow too,
Cold ground was my bed last night,
And rock was my pillow too,

Talkin blues, talkin blues,
I seem to wear a permanent screw

REVOLUTION

Revelation, reveals the truth, revelation

It takes a revolution to make a solution
Too much confusion, so much frustration
I don't want to live in the park
Can't trust no shadows after dark
So my friend I wish that you could see
Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free

Never make a politician, grant you a favour
They will always want to control you forever
So if a fire make it burn,
And if a blood make it run
Rasta there up on top, can't you see,
So you can't predict the flop,

We got lichtning, thunder, brimstone and fire
Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire

Kill, cramp and paralyse all weak at conception
Wipe them out of creation

Let I'es is I'es in I'es is black
In I'es is red in I'es is dread.

Let righteousness cover the earth
Like the water cover the sea

Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire
Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire