Yayayaya Selassie is the almighty I    Wo yow, My meditation going like a dove       Wo, stop alla keep failing    To fulfill black people words, hey    King Selassie I me hailing    Anna dem go trouble poor people first       Anytime now    Babylon dem a go ge a red    'Fraid, babylon a get 'fraid    Anytime now    di prisoners dem a go escape    Slave master place a go blaze    Anytime now    Police dem a go get a red    'Fraid, government a get 'fraid    Anytime now    Babylon, yuh must get a red    Nuff cutchi man nuff a dem run go shave       Woi, I'd rather to be    With the people I lead    Give dem my daily strength    And showing dem a dearly need    And I'd rather to see    more love than grief    That's the only way di ghetto youths a go achieve    And I rather to be    With the people in need    Babylon system only come yah so fi deceive    I rather to listen a nah to word receive    Dem a go cut di woman breast and bust di man dem seed    Mussa perish, long time me see it    Black people back up an yard inna di east    Tell di Indian say fi go look fi dem chief    Tell di white man from a Europe, go island seek    Hey, Rastaman no got no secret a keep    There will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth    ?    Come out inna di clear, behind wall dem a peep    Nothing fi di white man, black man nah do it    Black woman, stop sweep di white woman street    Di ghetto youths go study babylon technique    A so me see say    Vatican get defeat       Anytime now    Babylon dem a go get a red    'Fraid, Babylon a get 'fraid    Anytime now    Yah, redder fire deh go blaze    Stop treat people like slave    Anytime now    Di prisoners dem a go escape    Too long dem deh in deh yah bake    Anytime now    Babylon dem a go get a red    Man haffi go repatriate       Dem make dem sattelite and dem launch it a space    Mash up di o-zone layer    Babylon a fake    Sun a burn redder, and it a strip dem face    Could deh dem look like all (?) weh dey bake    Watch a make di Rastaman deal wid dem case    Ask dem dis question before it too late    Babylon, a why yuh dump your toxic waste    You no see say dat yuh make a big mistake    Now tell me who end up like bait    Dem hold down black people    to send white people through di gate    Woi, Rastaman a agitate    Revolution, caw we must repatriate       Anytime now    Babylon dem a go get a red    'Fraid di government get fraid    Anytime now    Babylon dem a go get a red    Dem seperate we and still wan' enslave    Anytime now    Babylon dem a go get a red    and Mister babylon, you nah save    Anytime now    Babylon dem a go get a red    Because di prisoners dem a go escape       Di whole a dem a dis di I-ncient of days    Got inna di Atlantic Ocean    Gone fire dem lace    Fi make di iceburg fi return di ice age    Di west a go sink when di water table raise    Babylon you stink, an yuh wan bad    Yo no badda think di youth a tell you dis brave    I black mother nah be your maid    Work me black father, and dem never get paid    Oh, babylon so much a we a come a enslave    I build di building, di road dem we pave    See dem now, see dem now, see dem now    From yuh dis your own a judgement you made       Repeat 1st Chorus till fade