[Intro ]*(Spoken) 

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 Since the beginning of modern civilization, 
Generations have witnessed and inherited, 
The only conflicts of world wars. 
But behold the marriage supper of the lamb, 
And the bridegroom onto his bride; 
Then shall the earth's children know the true expression of one love. 
Fm 
 Then mother earth shall honeymoon in peace. 
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 Forever eliminating the aspi-rations, 
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Lust and anguish of wars and rumours of wars.     Selah! 


[Refrão]

Fm 
 See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors, 
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 And propaganda spreading in-a the Sunday papers. 
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 Not even Superman could-a save you with him cape, 'cos, 
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 Red-a judgement a-blaze, blaze ya. 

Fm 
 And Babylon a-gamble the youth dem life like racehorse, 
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 And gi dem a uniform and a-shave dem head with razors. 
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 And now the clock a-strike war, don't be amazed, 'cos, 
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 In-a dem churches tryin' to save, saviours. 

*(Spoken) 

(n.c) 
 Can we do it? We can do it; we shall do it! (Boom!) 


[Verso 1]

Fm 
 Tell dem fe uh draw mi out, 
When the world government in-a falling out. 
   Bbm 
On-ly few men survive crawling out, 
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Run; left him colleagues dem sprawling out, nearly dead! 
Medic haffi haul him out, 
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And give him two tranquilizer fi stall him out; deh pon base! 
                                  C7 
Can't get no calling out when him hear from the shout last week. 
             Fm 
Him mistress find a-new shoes, wife can't get no news, 
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And lately she starting to doubt; she still search-ing! 
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And the youth dem bawling out, work-ing hard not to let it all come out. 
      Db 
Well, it's not safe to go walk about; 
  Bbm 
A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to water house. 
               Ab 
She start to a-rouse; sometime she want a spouse, 
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She start go out, start beat a darker stout, guns come out! 
Working people funds run out; 
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Keep a show last week and no one come out; bombs come out! 
                              C7 
Mi gas tank just run out, bom-bo clatt! 
                                   Db 
The scotch tape just run out, weed run out! 
Yuh senses must dumb out; 
          Bbm 
Mi have a pound round a-back deh a gwan sun out. 
         Ab 
Nah come out! 'Til the chalice bun out, 
         C7 
Nah come out! 'Til the malice bun out, a war! 


[Ponte]

Fm 
 Zimbabwe to Berlin wall, blazin' like a burnin' ball. 
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 Loose ball, dat no work, in war, sleeping, dat no work in war 
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 Can't wear jheri curl, in war, no diamond and pearl, in war. 
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 Can't drink weh a serve, in bar; gas wi fuck up yuh nerves, in war. 
Fm 
 Shot wi blood up yuh shirt, in war, can't go lift up no skirt, in war. 
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 Now disease and germs, in war; can't go release your sperms, in war. 
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 Stamina must preserve, in war, fire constantly burn, in war; 
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 Red, it red, it red, it red, it red! 

Interlude *(Spoken) 

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 If you cannot do it, 
If you are not prepared to do it, then you will die. 
You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, 
You race of good for nothings. 
If you cannot do what other men have done, 
What other nations have done, what other races have done, 
Then you yourself shall die. 


[Refrão]

Fm 
 See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors, 
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 And propaganda spreading in-a the Sunday papers. 
Db                         Bbm 
 Not even Superman could-a save you with him cape, 'cos, 
Ab                 C7 
 Red-a judgement a-blaze, blaze ya. 

Fm 
 And Babylon a-gamble the youth dem life like racehorse, 
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 And gi dem a uniform and a-shave dem head with razors. 
Db                          Bbm 
 And now the clock a-strike war, don't be amazed, 'cos, 
Ab                           C7 
 In-a dem churches tryin' to save, saviours. 


[Verso 2]

            Fm 
Hey, now wi fore parents sacrifice enough; 
Dem blood sweat and tears run like syrup. 
    Bbm 
Any day a revolution might erupt, 
        C7 
And the skies over Kingston lighting up. 
        Db 
For the new generation rising up, 
   Bbm 
Of youths nowadays, weh dem sighting up. 
    Ab 
And through reasoning dem biding up, 
       C7 
Search-ing for the sign and the sign is us. 
       Fm 
Search-ing for the truth; all you find is us, 
Searching for the troops; still behind is us, 
       Bbm 
The al-mighty we recruit and we come from the root, 
   C7 
We build like roach building boot. 
               Db 
Weh just can't done; Rastafari' design me tuff, 
         Bbm 
If a-the fight for freedom, sign me up. 
         Ab 
'Cos you tell-lie-vision can't blind me up, 
    C7 
Sol-diers and police dem wising up; 
    Fm 
Rea-lising they're no more right than us, 
Realising there's no use fighting us. 
    Bbm 
Rea-lising; they're opening their eyes, 
           C7 
To see the same demoralising life as us. 
      Db 
So we nah tek talk nor smiling up, 
         Bbm 
'Cos the word temper tantrum boiling up. 
        Ab 
And who calling the shots and nah bust none, 
    C7 
Con-trolling the mind of the young, bring down. 


[Ponte]

Fm 
 Bare famine; no rain nah fall from London to Dadeland mall. 
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 All the son of the virgin bawl, institute of the church in war. 
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 Preaching and researching war, practice and rehearsing war. 
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 Teaching and dem learning war, instigating and urging war. 
Fm 
 Always keep alert in war, 'cos man will jump out a swerving car. 
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 Now bees and birds in war, and the freaks and nerds in war. 
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 And the straight and curves in war, forward and reverse in war. 
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 Red, it red, it red, it red, it red! 

Outro: *(Spoken) 

(n.c) 
 If you cannot do it, 
If you are not prepared to do it, then you will die. 
You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, 
You race of good for nothings. 
If you cannot do what other men have done, 
What other nations have done, what other races have done, 
Then you yourself shall die.