Hear what me tell you   Hear what me say hey   No jah forsake me not   This child of Israel feel the pain   He feels the pangs of hunger too   creeping to his stomach   Oh as inflation rises to the sky-high   Faster and faster higher and higher   Faster and faster higher and higher   Them crises multiply   Every day the food supply decreasing   While the population is increasing   Where are they going to find   A way to serve mankind   Every day the energy yes they say   that it declines   Where are they going to find   A way to serve mankind   No jah forsake me not   This child of Israel feel the pain   He feels the pangs of hunger still   creeping to his stomach   Now as the happy young warriors they grow   Taller and taller wiser and stronger   Taller and taller wiser and stronger   they grow now   And they just laugh off misery   and they just laugh off hunger   Because the fruit of their labour   Jah tell them they must see see see   Wonder will I wonder will I not going to   Wonder will I wonder will I not going to   Wonder will I wonder will I not going to   Wonder will I wonder will I not going to   Oh as the happy young warriors yes they grow   Taller and taller stronger and wiser   Taller and taller stronger and wiser they grow   ina this ya Babylon   Where are they going'to find   A way to serve mankind    No Jah forsake me not this child of Israel feel the pain   He feels the pangs of hunger too creeping to his stomach    No Jah forsake me not   I trod through the streets of Babylon    And I fear not though I walk in the shadow of the wicked dem   Jah will guide and protect I still so I can trod on   No Jah forsake me not   Some men and people who try to crucify   Selassie I and them going pay the price