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2012: Book of Redemption II
The Rebirth

1. Children Of Africa Lyrics | Play

2. Crusaders 1100 CE Lyrics | Play

3. Bringing The People Together Lyrics | Play

4. Columbus 1492 Lyrics | Play

5. Frying Pan Lyrics | Play

6. 1920s Hollyweird Illusion Lyrics | Play

7. International Revolution Lyrics | Play

8. Space Shuttle 1999 Lyrics | Play

9. Misconception Lyrics | Play

10. Year 2000 BMW Lyrics | Play

11. Grow Your Natty Dread Lyrics | Play

12. 21st Century Disaster Lyrics | Play

13. Unity Lyrics | Play

14. King Selassie / 82 HIM Lyrics | Play

15. Golden Sun Lyrics | Play

Credits

Music Arranged by Jahmark & the Soulshakers

Singers and Players of Instruments

Jahmark – lead vocal, rhythm guitar, percussion

Style Scott, Horseman, Naz Bouzida, Casey Jones – drums
Mike Irwin, David King – bass guitar
Tony Lee, Mark Tyson – lead guitar
Alberto Fernandez – rhythm guitar, pick guitar
Rudy Richardson, I-locks, Scott Docherty – keyboards
Cedric Bravo, Jativa – tenor sax, alto sax, flute
Norman Grant – percussion
The HearticalItes – background vocals
Targyt – vocal on invisible bonus track # 16, disc # 1

Produced by Mike Irwin and Jahmark
A Roughsounds / Banana-Boat Joint

Recorded at Roughsounds Studio (Redondo Beach, CA) by Mike Irwin

Mixed & Mastered at Jasic Studio (Van Nuys, CA) by Fabian Cooke

CD concept – Jahmark
Design – Scott Docherty (Redhare – redhare.com)

©2012 Banana Boat Records USA. All rights reserved.
WARNING! Any unauthorized reproduction of this recording prohibited by federal law and subject to criminal prosecution.

Jahmark & the Soulshakers Albums

Dubbin' with The Scientist

Happiness

Book of Redemption I

Gan-JAH-licious

Life!

Love Power

Golden Sun

Whoh-ooh!
What a bright, what a bright, what a bright, what a bright
What a bright and a positive day

You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in, yeah
Feel the power and the glory of Jah blessing
You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in yeah, yeah
Feel the warmth and the love that I ‘n I bringing

Some feeling so down down down-down-down
On a Monday morning
Can’t you hear the voice of His Majesty calling
That’s why I-I-I-I feel so high I-I, yeah-ah
On a Tuesday evening
Tomorrow I know there’s a brand new day
On the horizon
And I feel so good, yeah
On a Wednesday morning
Rainbow connection keeps on a
Grow-grow-growing and a growing, hey

You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in, ooh
Feel the power and the glory of Jah blessing

Why you feeling so down down down-down-down
Whoh-ah!
On a Thursday evening
Could it be you were deceived
And now you are grieving
And yet I feel so high, high, high-I-I, yeah
On a Friday morning
Coming to your rescue
With this new day that’s dawning

You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in yeah, yeah
Feel the warmth and the love that I ‘n I bringing

And don’t you know that I feel so irie, yeah
On a Saturday evening
Jah give I peace and rest and He’s not misleading
And I can’t feel blue-ue-ue, oh-no-no
On a Sunday morning
Works to be done in establishing the throne
Of Jah Kingdom

You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in-in-in, in-in-in
Feel the power and the glory of Jah blessing
You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in, ooh yeah
Feel the warmth and the love that I ‘n I
Bring-bring-bring-bring-bringing it come, hey
Blaze it up Guitsy!

Guitar Solo

Yes I know, yes I know, yes I know
Got to honor your imperial … your imperial Father
And everyone I know they’ve got a blessed …
A blessed virgin Mother
So get wisdom my children
And you’ll begin to overstand
Don’t let the devil get the upper hand
Get behind me!

You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in
Feel the power and the glory of Jah blessing
You’ve got to let Jah-Jah bright golden sun
Come shining in-in-in, in-in-in
Feel the warmth and the love that I ‘n I bringing
You’ve got to
Feel the warmth and the love that I ‘n I bringing
You’ve got to
Feel the power and the glory of Jah blessing
Feel the warmth and the love
That I ‘n I … Rastafari! Jah!
Feel the warmth and the love
That I ‘n I, I ‘n I, I ‘n I …

King Selassie / 82 HIM

Besame Ab…Wewold…Wamenfus Kidus
Ahadu Amlak…Selah!

King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Earth’s rightful ruler
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, He’s the true peace-maker

I see H.I.M. sitting on His royal throne
Royal throne, royal throne
Up inna Addis Ababa, oh yeah
Crown of gold and robes of red
(Red! Dread natty dread!)
He’s I master yes He is I head, He’s I head-master

King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Earth’s rightful ruler
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, He’s the true peace-maker

Came to Earth not so long ago, not so long ago
Seeds of love yes He did sow
(Seeds of love Selassie I sow)
Some believe in believe but I ‘n I know
(I ‘n I ‘n I ‘n I ‘n …)
so we carry forth His message and we let JAH love grow
Grow and grow and grow

King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Earth’s rightful ruler
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, He’s the true peace-maker

Aa-oww
Don’t you be fooled by no false preachers
Hey! who everyday misinterpret JAH hola scriptures
All you gotta do (shee-oop)
Give JAH thanks and praises (shee-oop)
Give JAH thanks and praises
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yes Lord!
Oh yeah, oh yeah…

And if you’re searching for the mystic Messiah
Messiah, Messiah
One and all you’ve got to look to I-thiopia
I-thiopia
Land of the Nazarene roots and culture
(King of Kings, Lord of Lords)
Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah
The Lion, the Lion

King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Earth’s rightful ruler
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, He’s the true peace-maker

Oo-ooh
Don’t you be fooled by no false preachers
Hey! Who everyday misinterpret JAH hola scriptures
All you gotta do (shee-oop)
Give JAH thanks and praises (shee-oop)
Give JAH thanks and praises
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yes Lord!
Oh yeah, oh yeah…

And in the name of the Father, the name of the Son
Shining Son, shining Sun
Hola Spirit yes three-inna-One (aa-aa-aaah)
Hola Trinity, God’s power in Man
Rastaman, Rastaman
Thine will be done oh yes Thy Kingdom come
All aboard Selassie I train

King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Earth’s rightful ruler
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, He’s the true peace-maker
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Earth’s rightful ruler
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, He’s I ‘n I Redeemer

JAH Rastafari! liveth and reigneth in I ‘n I
Sons and Daughters of King Selassie I
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah-ee-ah
Blessings in the House of Love one and all
Blessings from I God up above
Love your father, love your mother
Seh fi love your little sister
Seh fi love your little brother

King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Yenigosuch Negus
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Yebelayoch Bellayi
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, Moa Anbessa
King Selassie JAH-JAH Rastafari, King Selassie I! Rastafari!
I ‘n I ‘n I ‘n I’on…whoh-ooo
I ‘n I ‘n I ‘n I’on

Unity

What we need, what we need
A no more war and greed
Won’t you help I plant this seed
Come on people!

Unity, brothers and sisters
Unity, all we need is one world don’t need three
Unity, I ‘n I ‘n I
Unity, what you talkin’ ‘bout?!

Talkin’ ‘bout…
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement

Hotta! Hotta! Hotta reggae…
Hotta! Hotta! Hotta reggae…

Unity, how can we say we are free?
Unity, so many souls inna captivity
Unity, that ‘a one more friend one less enemy
Unity, tell them Shakers!

Talkin’ ‘bout…
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement

Hotta! Hotta! Hotta reggae, fi real!
Hotta! Hotta! Hotta reggae…

Peace and love, I just can’t get enough
Peace and love, when-a-when-a so many youths inna handcuff
Peace and love, you gotta gotta leave all the hatred to the Ku Klux
Peace and love, what you talkin’ ‘bout?!

Talkin’ ‘bout
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement
Stop the war nuh man!
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement

Hotta! hotta! hotta reggae, well hot
Hotta! hotta! hotta reggae …ugh!

Want to know why we can’t get along
Want to know why the separation
Been way and-a way and-a much too long
come together mek we sing the same song
unity, unity, unity, wadada-dang-deng
unity, unity, unity
unity, unity, unity, wadada-dang-deng
unity, unity, unity

Unity, brothers and sisters
Unity, all we need is one world don’t need three
Unity, I ‘n I ‘n I
Unity, tell dem Soulhakers!

Talkin’ ‘bout…
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement
Movement, movement, peace reggae movement

Hotta! Hotta! Hotta reggae, well hot…
Hotta! Hotta! Hotta reggae
Gimme some peace and love nuh man…

Peace and love, let’s join hands and hearts
Peace and love, make a brand new start
Peace and love, come on my brothers
Peace and love, sing along my sisters

Peace and love, said-a, said-a just can’t get enough
Peace and love, when-a when-a so many youths inna handcuff
Peace and love, you gotta gotta leave all the hatred to the Ku Klux
Peace and love

21st Century Disaster

Whoo! There’s a dark angel who’s been jealous
Jealous of God love fi Man
So he came to earth to spread confusion
‘Mongst the population
Fi tu’n man ‘gainst God by fooling man
Fi tu’n against him brother, fellow-man
Trying to get the Most High to reject His blessed
Children of Creation
That deceiver tu’n white, yes white ‘gainst black
Rich ‘gainst poor and it’s a matter of fact
Capitalist, communist, third world
Even separation by religion
Him plot was uncovered by Pharaoh
So the angry one recruit the Roman gladiator
No wonder we have a Roman pope
Acting like our African Pharaoh

Keep your new world order
That is only 21st century disaster
Give us back original Living God culture
Cause your new world only headed for disaster

Now this ya new world so-called culture
Wheh the whole wide world a them a craving after
The roots a the cottonfields of Alabama
So the fruit shall surely be bitter
911 day a’ the twin fire-bomb
Who do you think is to blame
The pentagon knew it was coming and allowed
All that suffering and pain
All a part of the trickster’s new world brand new
Grand master plan
To go around the globe and capture all the gold
And oil-rich lands
Going around and dropping bombs on so-called
Third world
All the sufferers’ them a villages and towns
Slaughtering thousands of innocent children
Red, yellow, white, black, and brown

No want no anti-Krstic counter-culture
That is only 21st century disaster
Can’t praise your war-god of jealousy and anger
No see no eagle what we see is a vulture

AIDS on the rise in our Mama Africa
No let no tricky-dicky come and grant you no favor
Tainted blood arrives like a savior
From the blood-banks of the deceiver
The CIA and the IRS, FBI, world bank and the IMF
Were never built for our benefit but so
Big-business can flourish
President, Prime Minister, and Pope and Queen
Carry out the jealous one a separation schemes
So that they may shatter the Guardians of Creation
Majestic hopes and dreams
Plastic surgery nightmare seem to gone wrong
So many little children having ‘nuff abortions
Blood sacrifice, so many little childrens’ faces
On those milk cartons

Naw fight your gender-bender counter-culture
But Babylon you know you’re headed for disaster
No want no version of ol’ Sodom and Gomorrah
Catholic priests with them perverted agenda

Ooh! Turn on I Prophetical vision
I see pollution from your space-age inventions
Not all that glitters is gold in this
Battle of the holy Armageddon
Encourage them kids fi yearn oh my
Fi alien war-gods way up inna the sky
War is big business when it comes to that
Weapon of mass destruction high
X-rays, gamma-rays, and radio-waves
Cosmic-rays and micro-waves
Cancerous diseases on the rise
And we’re acting like it’s some kind of
Karmic surprise
The jealous one, the angry one
Is not Yahweh but the one satan
That’s why Emperor Selassie I come fi erase that
Deceiver’s misconception

Keep your new world order
That is only 21st century disaster
Give us back original Living God culture
Cause your new world surely headed for disaster
Just you keep your upside-down counter-culture
Babylon you got to work out lots of karma
Here comes Selassie our African Messiah
The Conquering Lion ain’t no eagle, nor no vulture

Keep your new world order
21st century disaster
Can’t defend an-an-a new world order
Your own inventions are your own disaster

Grow Your Natty Dread

Got to say no to the barber-man
Grow your natty, natty, natty, natty

Oh no no no mister barber-man
Cause I ‘n I a congo blackheart man

Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread
Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread

Find myself down here in a strange land, whoo
Where they’re saving the whales
And forgetting the humans, ugh
I’ve got work to do I’m a living Rastaman, wha-ah-ah-ai…
Heaven on earth is I ‘n I, an’ our heartical mission, so I say…

Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread
Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread

Time to throw away the razor, time to throw
away the comb
Grow your natty dread
cannot refusin’ the head cornerstone
Grow your natty dread
Pledge allegiance unto JAH can’t put my
trust inna Rome
Grow your natty dread
So many sheep been led astray and natty
time to come home
Grow your natty dread
and I say

Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread
Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread, oo-whoh-oo-ah

Mi no care, mi no fear, mi no care
I’ve got to be a natty dreadlocks
Mi no care, mi no care, mi no fear
I’ve got to be a natty congo I
I God, I King, Emperor Haile I-I-I-I…ugh!

The mighty Samson was a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
Jesus Christus was a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
A’ King Selassie I, yes H.I.M. a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
I ‘n I ‘n I a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
A natty congo!

Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread
Grow your natty dread children
Grow your natty dread, ugh!

Instrumental

King David slew Goliath was a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
Daniel the prophet was a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
Wise King Solomon he was a Nazarene
Grow your natty dread
The Queen of Sheba was a Nazarene, sisters!
Grow your natty dread
And every man is a king, and every woman is a queen
Grow your natty dread
‘Cause life is more than just “American dream”
Grow your natty-natty-natty-natty…ugh!

Grow your natty dread
Grow your natty dread

Misconception

Whoh, now-now-now…yeah!
Aah! oh now-now, now-now
now-now-now

Yeah-hee
No time! No time! No time! No time!
No time! No time! No time! No time!

No time to linger on inna Babylon misconception
No time to linger on inna Babylon misconception

Babylon them living in a spiritual wilderness
Babylon them living in a spiritual wilderness

Bring I ‘n I to the west but I ‘n I stand up to them test
bring I ‘n I to the west but I ‘n I stand up to them test
You know we’ve got to do our best
we just can’t settle for less
I say we’ve got to do our best
oo-whoh-oo-oh

Coming with them psychology
Come them a come, no wan’ we have no fun, no
Coming with them technology
Come them a come, the fire a go bu’n, hey
Coming with them hypocrisy
Come them a come, the wicked a go run now

No love inna them heart, the wicked
ain’t got no, no-no-no-no
They trying to tear us apart
but we getting it together in this
Reggae party

No time to linger on inna Babylon misconception
No time to linger on inna Babylon misconception

JAH-JAH know-oo-ow, my Father JAH know
JAH-JAH watch and see-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee, yeah-ee-eh
Babylon brutality, whoh-oo-oh, whoh-oo-ah, yeah-ee-ah

Yeah! them living in a misconception
Whoi! dying in a misconception
Why?! living in a misconception
Whoi! headed in the wrong direction

No love inna them heart, the wicked
ain’t got no, no-no-no-no
Them trying to tear us apart
but we getting it together in this
Reggae party

Ah inna this ya Reggae party, whoh-oh
right here right now, ohhh-no-no-now

So long they have JAH people
So long they have JAH people
So long they have JAH people
Down in the dungeon Lord
Lordy-Lordy-Lordy-Lordy-Lordy
Lordy-Lordy-Lordy, Lord, ah!

Pains my eyes to see-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee, yeah-ee-eh
Babylon brutality, whoh-oo-oh. whoh-oo-ah, yeah-ee-ah

Yeah! living in a misconception
Whoi! dying in a misconception
Why?! living in a misconception
Whoi! headed in the wrong direction

Yeah! them living in a misconception
Whoi! dying in a misconception
Why?! living in a misconception
Whoi! headed inna, headed inna
Them headed inna, them headed inna
Ahhh, now-now-now-now-now-
now-now-now-now-now-now
whoh-whoh-oo-ah, yeah-ee-ah, hey!

Space Shuttle 1999

This is the end of Babylon time … 1999
Mis-technology is a crime … 1999

Hey-hey! Space shuttle 1999, aah yeah-yeah
The rat-bat them finally gone completely blind
Where are they really trying to, trying to climb to
Could it be, could it be to the top of …
To the top of the tower of Babel
Them trying to escape them worldwide rape
Robbing the earth of its minerals, and natural resources

Space shuttle 1999 (zoom-zoom)
What are they running from
Space shuttle 1999
Here comes that new millennium

Now they’re sending out that SOS
But who’s gonna save your soul
I hear them sending out an SOS
That star-wars ego-tripping it is getting old
But just repent and you could save your own soul

We the children of the one world yes we know
That you surely reap what it is that you sow
Micro-chip and fancy space-ships
Casting them out to the outer-darkness
Messing up earth paradise for everyone, hey
With them nuclear, a - with them nuclear …

Space shuttle 1999 (zoom-zoom)
Could they be running from Jah Kingdom
Space shuttle 1999
King Rasta rule this new millennium

And now they’re sending out an SOS
But who’s gonna save your soul
I hear them sending out an SOS
Dare-devilism got your heart stone-cold
But just repent and you could save your own soul
Yes lord, whoo! (zoom, zoom zoom-a-zoom)

Instrumental

Arise all ye rainbow Kingdom guardians, ah-ow
Of Our Father’s blessed, so-so-so, so very blessed Creation
Three quarters of the children of the world
Won’t get no supper before they go to bed tonight
While the big-shots of the other quarter
Rushing to get their tickets for their space shuttle flight

Space shuttle, space shuttle, space shuttle 1999
Space shuttle, space shuttle
Why are you leaving paradise behind, hey

Who’s gonna save your soul
Aliens to Jah One Love Kingdom
Who’s gonna save your soul
E.T. can’t find his way back home, hey
Who’s gonna save your soul, ugh
Aliens to Jah One Love Kingdom
Who’s gonna save your soul
E.T. lost his way, lost his way, hey!

Space shuttle, space shuttle, space shuttle 1999
Space shuttle, space shuttle
Could this be the beginning of the end of the line
Space shuttle …

1920s Hollyweird Illusion

Well, well …
It seems they’re marketing colonial deception
Exporting “white magic” Hollyweird illusion
New world witches and warlocks worshipping false idols
Bowing down to Oscar, another idol named Emmy
Casting spells of violence, sex sells, and downpression
Won’t say what you want me to, wham-bam
Just to praise your Grammy
From the days of Charlie Chaplin and his silent movies
That was just a test for all that would come next, hey

1920s Hollyweird illusion
Industrial age device to spread more
Colonialist deception, look out!

Here comes the Duke (who?! John Wayne)
Inna him criss white hat, ugh
Six guns blazin’ but who is he shooting at
Demonizing the Red man for defending his own
Sacred birth-lands
Want them to remain on that hand-me-down
Dust bowl reservation

1920s Hollyweird illusion
Upside-down new world of celluloid
Celluloid confusion

And here comes Tarzan
Hollyweird’s “lord” of the African jungle
As if to say without Tarzan
Black people would be in trouble
And it’s a fact that the African Pharaoh
Taught the Greeks to read and write
Pass the info on to the Romans
Yet in the movies even Pharaoh seems white, ah

Yes it’s a roaring 20s Hollyweird illusion
Industrial age device spreading more
Colonialist deception

And brother Edy Merfie he can surely testify
That you just can’t tell the woman from the man
And inna that Hollyweird tinsel-town
It seems them whole world, it turn upside-down
They got us looking to the sky
Waiting to be rescued by aliens, aah
Mi green card seh I’m a “resident alien”
So I got to blast you with a ray of Prophetical vision
And …

Here comes Rambo as the new Tarzan
In the land of Asia
Followed by none other than our governor
Arnold Terminator
Gansta-this and gangsta-that
Dysfunctional counter-culture
Millions of dollars being spent to glorify
Babylon illusion world of gold-diggers

1920s, whoh-oo-oh, Hollyweird illusion
Industrial age device to spread more
Colonialist deception. Inna them
1920s whoh-oo-oh, Hollyweird illusion
Upside-down counter-culture
Celluloid confusion

It’s a 1920s Hollyweird illusion
It’s a roaring 20s, got my people fooled by Tarzan
Rambo, Scarface, you name it
Wake up my People!
A nuh we that Lion …

Frying Pan

Fire, fire, fire gonna burn Lord
Fire, fire, fire gonna burn Lord … hot!

Behold how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers and sisters to dwell together in love and I-nity

In this melting pot of many nations, whoh ye-ee-ah
Some don’t realize what a crucial situation
Native Americans and minorities under oppression
We don’t need brute force, ugh! We need solution
No partiality or things could get hot man
Out of control, good God! Yes out of hand
What we need is someone who can overstand
Too late with the water mister fireman, the fire just a bu’n, bu’n!

Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire
Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire

Drink clear water before all the fire
Lift your meditation just a little bit higher (higher)
Next time may very well be a major disaster
You hold the key, yeah, to your very own future

Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire
Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire

Sit up in your wisdom seat, wisdom seat, wisdom seat
People of the ghetto, people of the street
You got to take a little look before you leap, before you leap, before you leap
Into the fire, into the heat, so I say

Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire
Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire

Some like it hot (hotter-hot), some like it cold, brrr!
Some like it in the pot a just-a nine days o-o-o-old, old soul
O-old yeah!

And I remember granny say prevention always better than the cure
The rich getting richer, while the poor stay poor
High time we open up, ugh, some of those doors
Or the fire, fire, fire gonna burn Lord, it gonna burn some more

Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire
Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire
Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire
Things hot in the frying pan but it’s hotter in the fire

A natty see the hotter fire just a bu’n
A dreaddy see the wicked man him just a run-a-run run
A natty see the hotter fire just a bu’n
A dreaddy see the wicked man him just a run-a-run run

Run wicked! Bloh! Bloh!

Columbus 1492

Christopher Columbus
Came to the shores of America
Brought with him his Conquistadors
Coming with them swords and bibles

Hey, hey, hey
They came in their sailing ships
Sailing on their big ego-trips
They had a very devious plan
To put a white-house inna the Red man’s land
Next scheme, to build huge plantations
They knew the pyramids were built by ancient Africans
So where do you think the builders
Of their new world would come from
To suffer at the hands of the ku klux klan,

And in in 1492 Columbus screwed it up
For all Apache and Sioux
Yes in 1492 he screwed it up
For all the sons of Shaka Zulu, hey

Judaeo-Christian terrorists, ugh
Coming with their cannons and their bull-whips
Rob the natives of their culture and their native tongue
Gave them the choice of slaughter or a life of reservations
Missionaries came-a with colonial powers
With a white-wash new religion and a blue-eyed savior
Conquistador you didn’t do the Arawak them no favor
Wipe out the Aztec, and the Maya, and the Inca

In 1492 Columbus screwed it
For the Hopi and the Navajo too
In 1492 he screwed it up
For all the Africans of Timbuktu
Whoh, my-my

They thought they found a new world, whoh-oo
In 1492
But Christopher Columbus I’ve got some
Startling news for you
They thought they had discovered a new world
In 1492
But Christopher Columbus it was only
New for you and your crew

And who was really the terrorist at Custer’s last stand
Cochise and Geronimo only defended their lands
To add insult to injury here comes ol’ Conan
That terminator have big plans to send the tax-man
Yes across the water and-a over on desert sands
Yesterday it’s Cochise and today it’s Sadam
Pentagon, Vatican, and Buckingham
George W. of the jungle him still playing Tarzan

in 1492 Columbus screwed it
For the Blackfoot and the Iroquois too, hey
In 1492 they had big plans to build
A new world human zoo, ooh

The treasures the Moors left behind fed Spain’s
Hunger for something new
So here come the Conquistadors
Starving for more bling-bling food
They didn’t discover no new world
In 1492
‘Cause Christopher Columbus
Montezuma was here way before you-oo

in 1492 Columbus screwed it up
For Paiutes and Commanches too
In 1492 he screwed it
For the Black man and the Red man too, aw
in 1492 we didn’t have an inkling
Neither did we have a clue
In 1492, what their new world order
Would eventually do
in 1492 can’t celebrate
Columbus day with you, hey-hey-hey
In 1492 could-a never celebrate
Columbus day with you, oh
1492 can’t celebrate
Columbus day with you, oo-ooh
In 1492 can’t sit down
And break no joyful bread with you
Oh no-no-no

Bringing The People Together

Bringing the people together with music
(sweet reggae music)
Bringing the people together with love

Wadada wadada wadada wadada wadada wadada wadada
(Wadada wadada wadada wadada wadada wadada wadada)
Wadada-wa wadada-wa, yah yah yah ya-aah oooohhh
(sweet reggae music)

Now that we’ve got this love right here in our hands
With the help of Jah
I’ve got to touch you with this magic wand
(Abracadabra)
To all non-believers all over this land, got to!
Touch you with I reggae rhythm
‘Til we all become one
A no no no no matter what you do (do),
Whoh no matter what you say (say)
Rastafari got to guide the children
A to the one love way

Bringing the people (people) together with music
(Sweet reggae music)
Bringing the people (people) together with lo-o-ove

And have you ever seen a rainbow circle round the sun
A revelation, a revolution, change … holy armageddeon
Just like the light over darkness (light)
So the good cover over evil (good)
Put an end to prejudice, a-one rainbow people

Bringing the people (people) together with music
(Sweet reggae music)
Bringing the people (people) together with lo-o-ove

It’s not the world it’s the people who-oo-oo
Turn their backs on Jah and follow evil, I’m saying
The world’s not cruel it’s the people, whose …
Concept of life, robbing and killing so simple

Why do fools love simplicity, ring the alarm
Another drive by shooting
When you thought you were safe from harm
The birds in the air (flock)
While the fishes in the sea (school)
What Jah children need, love peace and harmony

Bringing the people (people) together with music
(Sweet reggae music)
Bringing the people (people) together with lo-o-ove
Bringing the people (people) together with music
(Sweet reggae music)
Bringing the people (people) together with lo-o-ove

Guitar melody
(Bring it on people, bring it my people, bring it on people, love peace and harmony)

Hey hey, my mama get irie now (irie), my papa get irie now (irie)
My brother get irie now (irie), my little sister get irie
My granny get irie now (irie), my honey get irie now (irie)
My little children get irie now (irie) and everyone a get irie
No worry no worry no worry no worry, get irie
No worry no worry no worry no worry, everyone irie

Crusaders 1100 CE

According to the Hollyweird picture show
I used to see at Carib theater as a youth
I used to think that Richard the so-called lionheart
Was the hero when he took all the loot
But now that I’m a conscious Rastaman
A one who truly overstand
He was just another wayward Christian stealing stolen
Jewish and Muslim lands

Crusaders on the quest for the holy grail
Got their eyes on the treasures of Jerusalem
And they’re hot on the trail
In the year 1100 of this common era
Was the Crusaders time
Set their sights on Jerusalem
It was a crime against mankind

Unlike the Moors in Spain religious tolerance
Went right out that door
If you happened to be Jewish or Muslim
Them would-a chop off your head for sure
It seems to me today in the Muslim land of Iraq
Something karmic seems to be going on
Something so very similar to that

A-Crusaders on the quest for the holy grail
Greedy eyes on the treasures of Jerusalem
And they’re hot on the trail
In the year 1100 of this common era
Was the Crusaders time
Set their sights on Jerusalem
Jewish karma or a heinous crime
Was it karma or a heinous crime

They ruled Jerusalem harshly
For close to two hundred years
‘Til finally the brave one, Saladin
Put an end to the Jews and the Muslims fears, hey
No wonder Robin Hood would rob
From the richest of them and give
To the poorest of the poor
The Crusaders greedy intentions
They were rotten, rotten to the core

Crusaders on the quest for the holy grail
Want to get their hands on the treasures of Jerusalem
And they’re hot on the trail
In the year 1100 of this common era
Was the Crusaders time
Set their sights on Jerusalem
And that big crucifix it was their sign, hey
Crucifix it was their sign

It seems today the Crusaders have found a use
For their old enemies, the Jews
Or is it vice-versa, just who is using who-oo-ooh
It seems the Jews have forgotten what they and their
Muslim brothers went through
A-in the time of the Crusaders
It were the Muslims who protected the Jews

In the time of the Crusaders
It were the Muslims who saw the Jews through
And now these sneaky Crusaders
They got the Muslims and the Jews confused
These conniving Crusaders
Middle-East oil is the new front-page news
Coming in on their winged-horses
And they’re trying to get the best of you

Crusaders time, and they’re
Coming in on their winged-horses
It’s a Crusaders time, ugh, coming again
To fatten up their purses
Crusaders … Crusaders on the quest

Children Of Africa

Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know the time is right
Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know we’ve got to unite

Instrumental
Crucial!

Hey! Hey African children of the rainbow, we’ve got to take it slow
Oh-oh-oh-oh
In this time of confrontation got to keep a level .. a-meditation
Whoh-oh
In Mama Africa world powers still trying to gain dominion
Brutalizing Jah children with their guns, their bombs and ammunition
Hey!

Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know the time is right
Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know we’ve got to unite

Brother ‘gainst brother, tribal war, only make it easier
For Babylon system devil-worker to come and take over
Biological warfare, HIV, mad scientist invention, oh Lord
Still want we gold, we oil, and we diamonds, so they
Plotting our destruction

Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know the time is right
Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know we’ve got to unite

This battle is not over ‘til the victory is won
Got to get it together my people
And live up, live up, live up as one ..
Whoo-yeah, one-one-one, whoh-oh one
Diggi-ding-ding-ding-ding-doi

Check out I brothers the North American Indian, the red man
They tricked him into living on an Indian reservation
Lesson to be learned in the law of divide and conquer
Settle down now African children we’ve got to come together
Together forever

Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know the time is right
Children, children of Mama Africa, children
You know we’ve got to unite

This battle’s not over ‘til the victory is won
Got to get it together my people
And live up, live up, live up as one ..
Whoo-yeah, one-one-one, whoh-oh-oh one
Neh-ah-ow, neh-ah-ow, neh-ah-ow

Hey! Uprising time are you picking up all you revolutionaries
Got to fight against them wickedness ‘til Mama Africa free
Only solution that I can see for you and me, ooh
Is to remember who we truly are
So we remember who we truly be, majestically

Children, children … children, children
Children, children … whoh-oh African children
Children, children, children, children
Children, children, children, children
Whoh-whoh-whoh-whoh children
Whoh African children, whoh-oh

Children of Africa, children of Africa
Blessed people
Children of Africa, children of Africa
Diggi-ding-ding-doi

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