Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, don
Anything you can do I can do it better I'm the toughest, I'm the toughest, And I can do what you can't do, for you'll never try to do what I do I'm
Johnny was grown in a twisted broken down one room shack in-a the ghetto The going was tough and the ditch of survival was getting steep in-a the
Tikya the Blackheart Man, children I say, don't go near him Tikya the Blackheart Man children For even lions fear him (repeat) Growing in a neighbourhood
War, di war, di war! It's the Armagiddeon. Taking place in iration, in iration. War, di war, di war! It's the Armagiddeon. Taking place inna iration.
Tell them tell them, Tell them the reason why you crying children Tell them, tell them tell them the Reason why you shed those tears (
What your hands do, It's your own eyes that see, So won't you judge you're actions To make sure the results are clean. It's your own conscience that
Them kill Limumba for his own-a-rights But them can't kill the Rasta Man at all, 'tall, 'tall Them can't kill the Rasta Man at all That's the strangest
We are reincarnated souls from that time Living on earth, heat air and water in this time (rep.) In the beginning was the word And the word manifested
You better quit trying to live my life for me You better quit trying stop nagging me so constantly You better quit trying, I just want for you
Embrace the Son, lest he be angry and smite thee on the way The sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah Make you wanna move your dancing feet now
What are you doing toward the scheme of things What are your words to your brother beings What are you doing toward the scheme of things What
Why, why, why, why do be do be do by dey, uh uh (4x) Walk the proud land, I Idren, with I an' I (4x) Now why you come wheel and turn me (3x) Go lick
Dip fi diplomatic; 'Yp for hypocratic; Dry, dry, dry for dry-land tourist; Tup-a tup-a tup for Topper Norris! See de 'ypocrite, dem a-galang deh! See
When I was just a kid, little children My old man used to sing a litle song But now I've grown to be a man But it still lingers deep within my soul Oh
Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions I find myself growing in an environment Where
you roots(you roots)you radicals you rock to the reggae you roots(you roots)you radicals you dub to the reggae you roots(you roots)you radicals skankin
Every man thinks his burdens the heaviest But it common they know because they feel And who feels it know it Who feels it knows it No