No More Trouble         

(We don't need) No, we don't need (no more trouble) no more trouble!
(We don't need no more trouble)

Wo! Oh-oh-oh!
(We don't need)  We don't need no (no more) trouble!
We don't need no trouble!

(We don't need no more trouble)
Make love and not war!  'Cause we don't need no trouble.
What we need is love                    (love)
To guide and protect us on.             (on)
If you hope good down from above,       (love)
Help the weak if you are strong now.    (love)

We don't need no trouble;
What we need is love.  Oh, no!
We don't need - we don't need - no more trouble!
Lord knows, we don't need no trouble!

(We don't need) We don't need trouble (no more trouble) -
no more trouble - no more trouble!
Seek happiness!                      (...)  Oh, ...!
Come on, you all and speak of love.  (...)  Oh, yeah!

We don't need no trouble;
What we need is love, now.  (What we need is love!)
(We don't need)  Oh, we don't need no more trouble!
We don't need, no - we don't need no trouble!
We don't (need) - no, brothers and sisters ... (no more trouble!)

We don't need no trouble; we don't need no trouble!
We don't need no trouble!
What we need is love!

We don't need - we don't need no more - we don't need -
no more trouble - we don't need no more trouble!
Trouble we don't need (we don't need),
(We don't need) Lord, knows! -
we don't need no more war (no more trouble).
No more trouble - we don't need no more - more trouble!   

Midnight Ravers   

Do-do-do.  Do-do-do.  Do-do-do.
(You can't tell the woman from the man)
No, I say you can't, 'cause they're dressed in the same pollution;
(dressed in the same pollution)
Their mind is confused with confusion
With their problems since they've no solution:
They become the midnight ravers.

Someone say:
(Please, don't let me down!)
Oh, please, don't let me - ee-ya-bab, oh, please don't let me down!
(Midnight) Midnight ravers! (ravers) Midnight ravers!
(Please don't)   Oh, please, please,
don't let me down, down, down, down, down!
Don't let me down;
Don't let me down.

I see ten thousand chariots        (ah-ah-ah-ah)
And they coming without horses;    (coming without horses)
The riders - they cover their face,  (ah-ah-ah-ah)
So you couldn't make them out in smoky place -
(make them out in smoky places)
In that musical stampede, where everyone is doing their thing.
Musical stampede - people swingin';
Musical stampede.  Someone say:
People, ride on!  (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!)  Ride on!
(keep a-ridin'!)  Midnight ravers!
People, ride on!  (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!)  Ride on!
(keep a-ridin'!)  Midnight ravers!

I can't tell my woman from the man:
She is dressed in the same pollution; (dressed in the same pollution)
Her mind is confused with confusion:
To my problem seems there's never - never no solution!

I've become a night-life raver
And I'm beggin' you, (please) please, please -
oh, beel-ya-ba-ba - please don't ya let me down!

(Night-life ravers)  Night-life ravers!  Night-life ravers!
Oh, please, please, please, please, don't let me down.
Don't let me down;
Don't let me down!

I see ten thousand chariots        (ah-ah-ah-ah)
And they coming without horses;    (coming without horses)
The riders they cover their face,  (ah-ah-ah-ah)
So you couldn't make them out in smoky place -
In that musical stampede, oh!
It's the musical stampede.  Ride on!
It's the musical stampede, some preacher say!
People ride on!   (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!)  Ride on!
(keep a-ridin'!)  Midnight ravers!
A-ride on!        (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!)  Ride on!
(keep a-ridin'!)  Midnight ravers!
Ride on, y'all!   (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!)  Ride on!
(keep a-ridin'!)  Midnight ravers!
Ride on!          (keep a-ridin'!)
(keep a-ridin'!)  Don't let me down, midnight ravers!
(keep a-ridin'!)
Midnight ravers, don't let me down!  (keep a-ridin'!)
Don't let me down - don't let me down!  (keep a-ridin'!)
Well, I'm comin'!
I got too much talkin'.         

Hallelujah Time 

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:
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.

Burnin' And Lootin'

This morning I woke up in a curfew;
O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality.  Eh!

How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss?  Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have 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)
Burnin' all illusion 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.  Eh!

Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(Who can stop the tears?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(We've been suffering these long, long-a years!)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(Will you say cheer?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(But where?)

Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the Roots Man take a blow.
I must say: all them  - all them drugs gonna make you slow;
It's not the music of the ghetto.

We gonna be burning and a-looting tonight;
(To survive, yeah!)
Burning and a-looting tonight;
(Save your baby lives)
Burning all pollution tonight;
(Pollution, yeah, yeah!)
Burning all illusion tonight
(Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!)

Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning all pollution tonight.     

Pass It On 

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 else's
That is gonna judge.

Be not selfish in your doings:
Pass it on.  (Pass it on, children)
Help your brothers (help them) in their needs:
Pass it on.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, you will live again.

In the kingdom of Jah,
Man shall reign.
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 right.

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.

Live for yourself, you will live in vain;
Live for others, you will live again.

In the kingdom of Jah,
Man shall reign.
Pass it on;
Pass it on;
Pass it on;
Pass it on.  (Pass it on)

Rasta Man Chant     

Hear the words of the Rastaman say:
"Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon, you throne gone down."

Said I hear the words of the Iyaman say:
"Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon, you throne gone down."


And I hear the angel with the seven seals say:
"Babylon throne gone down, gone down;
Babylon throne gone down."

I say fly away home to Zion  (fly away home);
I say fly away home 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 bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
Say one bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.

Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)

Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na.

Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A yot a-yook, but d' yood no 'nough.

You're gonna dance to Jah music, dance;
We're gonna dance to Jah music, dance, oh-ooh!

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 a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-yook, but d' yood* no 'nough.

We're gonna chuck to Jah music - chuckin';
We're chuckin' to Jah music - we're chuckin'.

A belly full, but them hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook, but d' food* no 'nough.
A hungry man is a angry man;
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-yook, but you no 'nough'
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough.
A pot a-cook, but you no 'nough;
A hungry mob is a angry mob;
A hungry mob is a angry mob. 

Rebel Music (3 O'clock Roadblock) 

(Do do do do-do do do!
Do do do do-do do do!
I rebel music;
I rebel music.)
Why can't we roam (oh-oh-oh-oh) this open country?   (open country)
Oh, why can't we be what we wanna be?  (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
We want to be free.  (wanna be free)

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

I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm tellin' you! -
(I) I rebel music (rebel music).  Oh-ooh!

Take my soul (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
and suss - and suss me out (suss me out).  Oh-ooh!
Check my life (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh),
if I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm tellin':
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "Hey, Mr. Cop!  Ain't got no - (hey)  hey! (hey, Mr Cop) -
(What ya sayin' down there?) - (hey)  hey!  (hey, Mr Cop) -
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."

(I rebel music)
(I rebel music)
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
(open country)
(oh-oh-oh)

(Do do do!)
I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm tellin' you! -
(I) I rebel music (rebel music).

Oh-ooh!  Take my soul (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
and suss - and suss me out (suss me out).  Oh-ooh!
Check my life (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh),
if I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm tellin':
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "Hey, Mr. Cop!  Ain't got no - (hey)  hey! (hey, Mr Cop) -
(What ya sayin' down there?) - (hey)  hey!  (hey, Mr Cop) -
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 they 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 - yeah! -
"Ye are the sheep of my pasture;
So verily, thou shall be very well," yeah!

And down here in the ghetto,
And down here we suffer.
But I'n'I a-hang on in there
And I'n'I, I naw leggo;
I'n'I a-hang on in there
and I'n'I, I naw leggo.

For so Jah seh - yeah! -
"I'm gone to prepare a place,
That where I am thou shall abide," yeah!
So Jah seh,
"Fear not for mighty dread,
'Cause I'll be there at your side."

And - and down there - down there in the ghetto -
And down there we suffer
But I'n'I a-hang on in there
And I'n'I, I naw leggo.
But I'n'I a-hang on in there
And I'n'I, I naw leggo;
- So Jah seh.

Natty Dread

Dread, Natty Dread now,                         (Natty Dread)
Dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                        (Natty Dread)
Natty Dreadlock in a Babylon:                   (Natty Dread)
A dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                      (Natty Dread)
Eh!  Children get your culture                  (Natty Dreadlock)
And don't stay there and gesture, a-ah,         (Natty Dreadlock)
Or the battle will be hotter                    (Natty Dreadlock)
And you won't get no supper.                    (Natty Dreadlock)

Natty Dread, Natty Dread, now;                  (Natty Dread)
A dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                      (Natty Dread)
Natty Dreadlock in a Babylon -                  (Natty Dread)
Roots Natty, Roots Natty!                       (Natty Dread)

Then I walk up the first street,                (Natty Dreadlock)
And then I walk up the second street to see.    (Natty Dreadlock)
Then I trod on through third street,            (Natty Dreadlock)
And then I talk to some Dread on fourth street. (Natty Dreadlock)
Natty Dreadlock in a fifth street,              (Natty Dreadlock)
And then I skip one fence to sixth street.      (Natty Dreadlock)
I've got to reach seventh street:               (Natty Dreadlock)
Natty Dreadlock Bingy Bongo I                   (Natty Dread)
Natty dread, Natty Dread, now,                  (Natty Dread)
Roots Natty Congo I.                            (Natty Dread)

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

Don't care what the world seh;                  (Natty Dread)
I'n'I couldn't never go astray.                 (Natty Dread)
Just like a bright and sunny day:               (Natty Dread)
Oh, we're gonna have things our way.            (Natty Dread)
Natty Dread, Natty Dreadlock,                   (Natty Dreadlock)
Dreadlock Congo Bongo I.                        (Natty Dreadlock)
Don't care what the world seh;                  (Natty Dreadlock)
I'n'I gonna have things our way.                (Natty Dreadlock)
If a egg Natty in a the red -                   (Natty Dreadlock)
If a egg Natty in a the red.                    (Natty Dreadlock)
Natty Dread, Natty Dreadlock.