Capture Land

And I say Dread and Terrible pon dem

Good god of grace, well I have his mercy

And me say old slave driver

Time is catching up on you

Old slave driver

I know your sins dem a haunt you

Carry we go home, Carry we go home

And bring we round a east

Cause man a rasta man

And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

Carry we go home

An mek we settle and seize

Caw man a rasta man

And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

Lord America a capture land

Di whole a Jamaica a capture land

A long time dem wah trick the rasta man

Like dem nuh know say that man a real African

Yuh tink me nuh memba King Ferdinand

And teifing Columbus have a Golden plan

Dem make a wrong turn and end up in the Caribbean

One rass genocide kill nuff indian

Lord, Fi turn paradise in a plantation

And bring cross one ship load a African

Now here comes the tiefing Queen from England

No she Cromwell and Henry Morgan

Century pon top a century full a sufferation

And after four hundred year mi see no reparation

And now dem wah fi kill we wid taxation

But a beg you please take me to the mother land

Carry we go home, Carry we go home

And bring we round a east

Cause man a rasta man

And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

Carry we go home

An mek we settle and seize

Caw man a rasta man

And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

Watch dem pon di top a di hill

A look inna dem plate how it proper, all it fill

Because down town have shotta fi kill

Dem tell the tourist say fi stop a Negril

So come mek we start a new chapter

We nah stay pon di land weh dem capture

An' me say Africa fi all true rasta

A so, go tell di unscrupulous factors say

Carry we go home, Carry we go home

And bring we round a east

Cause man a rasta man

And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

Carry we go home

An mek we settle and seize

Caw man a rasta man

And rasta nuh live pon no capture land

Cherry Garden, a capture land

Me tell you Shortwood, say dat a capture land

Los Angeles, dat a capture land

And New York City, dat a capture land

East some a di place weh you wah go live sweet

A teifing land there's no title fi it

And some a these place weh you wah go live nice

A tief dem tief it in the name of Christ

In Spanish Town, dat a capture land

The whole a Kingston, dat a capture land

Remember Portland, dat a capture land

And all down a Trinidad, dat a Capture land

Barbados, say dat a capture land

Tell dem Bermuda, dat a Capture land

And tell Columbia, say dat a Capture land

All round a Cuba, say dat a Capture land