Diamond & Pearl

As you know yea yea

Bless dem now Kalonji

We say hail to the high one of iration

Emperor Hailie Sellasie I you know

The black king of Etiopia...

Black nation rise... ey

If it's diamond and pearl dem pon your mind

It's gonna fade away then whoa oh

the people is the earth so be not unkind

How it look from when you dey pretend whoa oh

[Chorus:]

For there is only one way to go

and I can only do the good that I know

Oh yeah for sure oh for sure

I've got to tear the wicked man down

no matter where them rise from

True love is only what the children know

Dem could never know me

cause them a heads too low

Oh yeah for sure oh for sure

got to take the ghetto youths

Over on the Ethiopian shore

Babylon get scared

From them sight rastaman them sight them worst nightmare

Yo and now them come and chat but look from when we here

Say dem greedy like a rat with the youths them no share

so I've got to go and make a home and bless prepare

Repatriate the ghetto youths them from this hemisphere

Well you no bother scorn we true we dutty and tear

True me tent out spread out pun the ground like a spear

Babylon sight the natty Congo dem no mock and a jeer

Dem go dis King Selassie get splash out like pear

How the bongo man fi friend yuh, you sit down inna dem chair

Swear dem go swear

[Chorus:]

For there is only Rasta way to go

and I can only do the good that I know

Oh yeah for sure oh for sure

I've got to tear the Babylon down tear dem down

And there is only one way to go

and I can only do the good that I know

Oh yes for sure oh for sure

I've got to touch that African shore

Hey no now..

Oh well I've seen some many faces...

gone so many places ahhh Rastaman ah go through

Oy, I know of their disgraces

bun them out inna every cases yah

tell them nothing nah new

Ay, the woman upon her traces

want I drop them laces fi dem children 1 or 2

Rasta foundation cyar break it, well you better take it

Yah nah reek and nah screw

Check the road dem go tek, dem go read the wrong code

and them end up over next and true dem love fi call

nuff ah dem ah get test yo and dem mix up inna too much filthiness

When Rastaman ah chant them neva waa bless

And Rastaman ah talk them say them neva hear it yet

But now mi say Rome fi bun you see the bugga dem vex

You no bother come here with no bad concept

listen the words from yuh tongue yo chek your dutty flex

Neva waa show the ghetto youth the fullness so ah trap dem go set

[Chorus:]

But there is only one ah way to go

True love is only the good the youths dem know

Oh yeah for sure oh for sure

I've got to tear the hethen down bring dem down

True love is only what the youths dem know

and I can only show the ghetto youths the way to go

Oh yea for sure oh for sure

I've got to tear the wicked man down

no matter where them rise...

If it's diamond and pearl there pon your mind

It's gonna fade away then oh oh

Jah Jah children is the earth so be not unkind

Babylon me straighten you out cuz you jus go round the bend

If ah diamond and pearl there pon your mind

It's gonna fade away then oh oh oy

Search ghetto youths find when mi done bun the fire Babylon blind

[CHORUS:]

But there is only one way to go

and I will only show the youth the truth let dem fi know

Oh yeah for sure oh for sure

Pharoh nah like that when Jah Jah kick you straight out tha door

There is only one way to go

and I can only do the good that I know

Gwan now black people study study

Mi say yo yo yo yo whatch this