Zion Chant - Judy Mowatt

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In this world, there's pure confusion
people dying because of sufferation
but I know a place where there is no confusion
and here is your chance to make your decision
we're going home
whoa children
might even run leave your clothes
we're going home
cause we african children
heads of government, we're calling on you
to free jah people from captivity
the longer yuh take the worse it's gonna get
cause when jah chant from zion up
yuh lighning and thunder
run dem asunder
whoa children
moving on
gotta run leave your clothes
we're marching on cause we are african children
in this world there's pure confusion
people dying because of sufferation
but i know a place where there is no confusion
and here is your chance to make your decision
we're going home
whoa children
just get on board
might even gon leave your clothes
we are african children
we're going home
wah yoy wah yoy wah yoy
children
we don't, we don't, we don't need no baggage
going home, whoa

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Re: Zion Chant - Judy Mowatt

Garnett Silk: "What Do You Say?"
I beg your pardon?
What did you say?
What do you say?

Chorus:
What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family
What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family

How could you not love
The man who created you?
Heaven and earth
And all that dwell therein
Man that is bigger than sin

What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family

What did you say?
You don't honor the king?
Blessed be the king
Who cometh in the name of the Lord

Sorry you can't cross him
Because He's wider than broad
You can't get over Him
Cause He's the highest
You can't get under him
He's deeper than the deepest sea
Jah is without ending

What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family
What did you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family

Light of the world is He
King of Zion
Power of the Holy Trinity
And He shall warm the hands of His enemy
As what's been tempted for the fire
So shall make perish at the presence of Jah

What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family

What did you say?
You don't honor the king?
Blessed be the king
Who cometh in the name of the Lord

Sorry you can't cross him
Because He's wider than broad
You can't get over Him
Cause He's the highest
You can't get under him
He's deeper than the deepest sea
Jah is without ending

What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family
What do you say?
You don't love Haile Selassie?
Fire gonna burn You and Your Family

How could you not love
the man who created you?
heaven and earth
And all that dwell therein... (fade out)

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Re: Zion Chant - Judy Mowatt

From a tape Roger Steffens found in Bob's house in the week
following his death, the title is guessed at:
RECORD A NEW SONG

every night you record a new song
and you sing about your love and your hate
you try to make a break of a new dawn...

if you gonna live by the gun now
surely gonna die by the gun...
have no respect for anyone,
well, it seems like unoo have no manners
to no one
look how unoo a gwan...
you should listen to your vision

if Rasta no build the house
workman work in vain
no matter what you hear them say
come again

Rastafari is our leader
on the bright and morning star
don't you know I'm right
don't you know I'm right
don't you know I'm right

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Re: Zion Chant - Judy Mowatt

Book of Rules
Isn't it strange how princesses and kings
in clown-ragged capers in sawdust rings
while common people like you and me
we'll be builders for eternity
each is given a bag of tools
a shapeless mass and the book of rules

each must make his life as flowing in
tumbling block on a stepping stone
while common people like you and me
we'll be builders for eternity
each is given a bag of tools
a shapeless mass and the book of rules

look when the rain has fallen from the sky
you know the sun will be only with us for a while
while common people like you and me
we'll be builders for eternity
each is given a bag of tools
a shapeless mass and the book of rules

-Barry Llewellyn and Harry Johnson

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Re: Zion Chant - Judy Mowatt

Africa Unite

Africa, Unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our father's land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
Africa, Unite 'cause the children wanna come home
Africa, Unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our father's land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah

As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man

So, Africa, Unite, Africa, Unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it's later than you think

Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it's later than you think
Africa awaits its creators, Africa awaiting its creators
Africa, you're my forefather cornerstore
Unite for the Africans abroad, unite for the Africans a yard
Africa, Unite