Blackheart Man

Tikya the Blackheart Man, children

I say, don't go near him

Tikya the Blackheart Man, children

For even lions fear him

Tikya the Blackheart Man, little children

I say, don't go near him

Tikya the Blackheart Man, children

For even lions fear him

Growing in a neighbourhood for such along time

That is filled with fear

I can't go here, can't go there

And I ain't supposed to go anywhere, anywhere at all

When I ask my Mom if she could let me go out and play

Like little children do

She said: Be careful of the stranger

Giving candies to children

And then take them away

He lives in the gullies of the city

He's the Blackheart Man, y'all, the Blackheart Man

Even in the lonely parts of the country

You'll find the Blackheart Man, y'all, the Blackheart Man

He ain't got no friend, no home, no family

He's the Blackheart Man, y'all, that's The Blackheart Man

He is famed to live just like the gypsy

He's the Blackheart Man, yeah

Growing and learning and gathering

For myself a little more experience jumping over the fence

Curiousity has brought me, yes, it's brought me, a little common-sense

Trodding the road of life, I've come to this one conclusion

That everything is equal under the Sun, all that is created by Jah mighty hand

And he said: Knock and it shall be opened

Seek and Ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of time

Knock and it shall be opened

Seek and ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of time

Now I trod the same road of aflictions

Just like the Blackheart Man, just like the Blackheart Man

Getting my share of humiliation

Just like the Blackheart Man, y'all, the Blackheart Man

You'll find me even in the prison of the dungeons

Just like the Blackheart Man, yes, the Blackheart Man

I even get blamed without a reason

Just like the Blackheart Man

Just like the Blackheart Man, y'all

No cross, no crown, no sorrow, no trial and crosses In a I-way

But the hotter the battle is the sweeter Jah-Jah victory

Ancient children use to say if you want good your nose got to run run run

How could the world go free, and let Jah bear the cross alone

And them that drink of the old wine have no place for the new

For the new

And the stones that are head of the corner are the same ones that the builders refused

Hear me when I say, now

Now, it's the Blackheart Man, children

Who've become the wonder of the city