Don't Worry

Don't worry your mind, hey my nation.

Don't worry your mind, hey my people.

Don't worry your mind, hey hey.

Don't worry your mind.

During the year 1985

there is a whole lot a things Pato Banton realized

like when you pocket dry people pass you by

but as you pocket full you have friends like flies

getting too far that's when they start to criticize

and spread a lot of rumors diluted with lies

but girls will be girls, boys will be boys

me no mix with them ca' me and them a no size

some times me play fool, me just a catch wize

ca' me now say the fittest of the fits will survive

physically fit so you can socialize

mentally fit so you can realize

and know what is wrong from what is right

and from the spiritually fit you get eternal life.

Now me naar go tell a man bout' him past history

you should a learn that when you was a pickney

you fi learn all your roots if you don't know them already

ca' me naar go give a man knowledge too easy

I wouldn't tell you follow Muslim or Christianity

wouldn't tell you to not to pon praise Selassie

all me would a tell a man is fi think wisely

and to read them all the scriptures frequently

with an open heart you would see clearly

our day to day life is just prophecy

chariot without horse Zion bird in a the sky

famine in Africa was long time prophesied

children having children that a happen daily

take a look in your good book and you will see

nuff man know the true but prefers fantasy

them stop praise Jah and turn freaky deaky

start spending all the money pon LSD,

cocaine, heroin, opium and speed

some of them realize before it get to deep

while some gone a graveyard fi get some sleep

sometime me fi fi laugh it just don't funny

ca' in a Babylon everything is money

everyday a man a kill a man fi couple of pennies

when them see a what them do them bawl fi the mommy

you could bawl a little more the damage done already

when it comes to murder the judge no have no mercy

and it makes it even worst if you is a darky

ten times worst if you have a na thing

justice is a joke in this country

so the best thing to do is behave properly.

Well if life was a tape recorder I would press rewind

and replace my crooked days with a righteous life!

To all the youths in the ghetto I leave this saying

if you can't do the time don't do the crime!