Letras

THREE LITTLE BIRDS

Don't worry about a thing
cause every little thing is gonna be alright
don't worry about a thing
every little thing is gonna be alright

Rise up this morning
smiled with the rising sun
three little birds pitch by my door step
singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
saying, this is my message to you:

don't worry about a thing...

SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD

So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world

Bless my eyes this morning
Jah sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly things are going
Anything can happen

You see men sailing on their ego trips
Blast off on their spaceship
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me

So much trouble in the world now
So much trouble in the world now
All you got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little
one more time ye-a-h! ye-a-h!

So you think you have found the solution
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out your tide
Don't leave another cornerstone
Standing there behind
We've got to face the day
Ooh we come what we may
We the street people talking
We the people struggling

Now they are sitting on a time bomb
Now I know the time has come
What goes on up is coming on down
Goes around and comes around

So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble in the world

ZIMBABWE

Every man gotta right
To decide his own destiny
And in this judgement
There is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms
We will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way
We can overcome our little trouble

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights

Natty Dread it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more international power struggle
We come together, to overcome
The little trouble
Soon we will find out
Who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people
To be contrary

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We'll have to fight, we gonna fight
We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
I&I a liberate Zimbabwe

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

To divide and rule
Could only tear us apart
In everyman chest
There beats a heart
So soon we'll find out
Who is the real revolutionary
And I don't want my people
To be trucked by mercenaries

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Every man got a right
To decide his own destiny
Let us fight and rebuild
Zimbabwe

TOP RANKIN'

They don't want to see us unite
'Cause all they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us live
Together, I'll tell you what
All they want us to do is
Keep on killing one another

Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top ranking
Are you fooling one another
When you say you wanna come together
They say the blood runs
And it runs through our lineage
And our hearts, heart of hearts divine

John sey them coming' with the truth
From an ancient time

Brotherly love, sisterly love
I feel this morning
I feel this morning
Brotherly love, sisterly love
I feel this morning

They don't want to see us unite
'Cause all they want us to do is
Keep on fussing and fighting
They don't want to see us come
Together
All they want us to do is
Keep on killing one another

Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', did you mean what you say now
Are you skankin', are you skankin'
Top rankin', top ranking
Are you skankin', skankin'

BABYLON SYSTEM

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity
Talking about my freedom
People freedom and liberty

Yeah, we've been trodding on
The winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel
We've been trodding on the
Winepress much too long, rebel

Babylon system is the vampire
Sucking the children day by day
Babylon system is the vampire
Sucking the blood of the sufferers
Building church and universuty
Deceiving the people continually
Me say them graduating thieves
And murderers look out now
sucking the blood of the sufferers

Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth
Tell the children the truth right now
Come on and tell the the children the truth
(repeat)

'Cause we've been trodding on
The winepress much too long
Got to rebel, got to rebel now
We've been taken for granted
Much too long, rebel

From the very day we left the shores
Of our Father's land
We've been trampled on, oh now
Now we know everything we got to rebel
Somebody got to pay for the work
We've done, rebel

CRAZY BALDHEADS

I and I build a cabin
I and I plant a corn.
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country?
Now you look me with a scorn
And you eat up all my corn.
We're gonna chase those crazy (x2)
Chase those crazy baldheads
Chase those crazy baldheads right out of town.
Build your penetentaries,
We build your schools.
Brainwash education
To make us the fools.
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling yourself your God above!
We're gonna chase those crazy baldheads
We're gonna chase those crazy bumbas
Right outta town.

JAH LIVE

The truth is an offence but not a sin
is he who laugh last,
children is he who win
is a foolish dog
bark at the flying bird
one sheep must learn to respect the shepherd

Jah Live children yeah
Jah Jah Live children yeah
Jah Live children yeah
Jah Jah Live children yeah

fool say in their heart
Rasta your god is dead
but I and I know, Jah Jah
Dread it shall be Dreader Dread

Jah live children yeah
Jah Jah live children yeah
Jah live children yeah
Jah Jah live children yeah

let Jah arise now that the enemies are scattered
let Jah arise the enemies, the enemies are scattered

Jah live children yeah
Jah Jah live children yeah
Jah live children yeah
Jah Jah live children yeah

JAMMING

We're jamming,
I wanna jam it with you,
We're jamming, jamming
And I hope you like jamming too

Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow
I and I will see you through,
'Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice
Jamming till the jam is through.

We're jamming
To think that jamming was a thing of the past,
We're jamming, jamming
And I hope this jam is gonna last

No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow
Neither can be bought or sold.
We all defend the right, Jah Jah children must unite
Your life is worth much more than gold.

We're jamming, jamming
We're jamming in the name of the Lord
We're jamming, jamming
We're jamming right straight from Jah

Holy mount Zion
Holy mount Zion

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion
And rules all Creation Yeah,

we're jamming, jamming
I wanna jam it with you
We're jamming, jamming
I'm jammed, I hope you're jamming too

Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide
Too Keep you satisfied.
True love that now exist is the love I can't resist
So jam by my side.

LICK SAMBA

Chorus:
Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba
woh oh Lick Samba (x2)

I could not resist
Another like dis

And though I know you hurt me, you care
I'll go on, I'll feel the pain
And it's not that I am week
But it's that I'm on a peak

Chorus

Bring it up, lick it one time
I'll settle a little (a claim?) baby
You can write it down in my name
morning time, noon or night

Chorus

If it's morning time, I'm ready
If it's late at night, I'm steady
Give it to you anytime, oh darling
I'm not a preacher, but I am calling

NATURAL MYSTIC

there's a natural mystic blowing through the air
if you listen carefully now you will hear

this could be the first trumpet,
might as well be the last
many more will have to suffer
many more will have to die - don't ask me why
things are not the way they used to be
i won't tell you no lie
one and all have to face reality
now 'tho i've tried to find the answer
to all the questions they ask
'tho i know it's impossible
to go living through the past
don't tell no lie

there's a natural mystic blowing through the air
can't keep them down
if you listen carefully now you will hear

ONE LOVE

One Love, One Heart
let's get together and feel all right
hear the children crying (One Love)
hear the children crying (One Heart)
sayin' give thanks and praise to the Lord
and I will feel all right
sayin' let's get together and feel all right

let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love)
there is one question I'd really like to ask (One Heart)
is there a place for the hopeless sinner
who has hurt all mankind just to save his own? believe me

One Love, One Heart let's get together and feel all right
as it was in the beginning (One Love)
so shall it be in the end (One Heart)
give thanks and praise to the Lord
and I will feel all right, one more thing

let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One Love)
so when the Man comes there will be no no doom (One Song)
have pity on those whose chances grove thinner
there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation

sayin' One Love, One Heart
let's get together and feel all right
I'm pleading to mankind (One Love)
oh lord (One Heart)

give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
let's get together and feel all right

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 singing unto thee
inite oneself and love imanity
cause puss and dog get together
what's wrong with loving one another
cause 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
I and i and i, i naw leggo

for so jah seh
i'm going 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

STAND ALONE

There you are crying again
but your loveliness won't cover your shame
There you are taking true love
while you're taking true love
you're given the blame
how could I be so wrong
to think that we could get along
days I wasted with you, child
if I count there'll be a million or two
now I stand alone through the memory that haunts me, that haunts me
and I walk alone through the rhapsody that taunts me, that taunts me
There you are crying again
but your loveliness won't cover your shame
There you are taking true love
while you're taking true love
you're given the blame
how could I be so wrong
to think that we could get along
days I wasted with you, child
if I count there'll be a million or two
now I stand alone through the memory that haunts me, that haunts me
and I walk alone through the rhapsody that taunts me, that taunts me
There you are crying again
but your loveliness won't cover your shame
There you are taking true love
while you're taking true love
you're given the blame

JUMP THEM OUT OF BABYLON
(de uma fita encontrada na casa de Bob na semana seguinte à sua morte)

jump them jump them
jump them out of Babylon
jump them jump them
jump them out of Babylon

some would call me an escaped prisoner
some would say that I'm extortioner
some would say I'm armed and dangerous
but I would say, "Don't get nervous"...

some would say I'm a freedom fighter
some would say I'm an executioner...
some would say I'm a liberator
a me say jump them jump them
don't want to be no prisoner...

an' me say break down the prison walls
oh make me no more prisoner no more...

tell my mama not to make no moise
cuz I'm gonna have to pick a choice
even do seven years in a dumb cell
or jump them and do well