Tell The Children

Yea man go way from here so Babylon

You cyar take the black people fi fool

Wha you ah deal with man

You nah see we have hands and feet,

eyes and nose you don't see we have mouth

Yea man righteousness from me drop

We even have clean teeth you see it

Yea man so me ah show dem say fi get good feeding

same way especially the baby mothers let me see it

Yea man Rastafari say fundemental freedom,

redemption, Black international repatriation

We nah no time ah laugh its hate

and all dem we ah bun the fire pon, Jah

Ethiopia Africa stand up,

all ghetto youth remeber this

Kalonji reveal the truth, me say

[CHORUS:]

Tell the children the truth

Babylon ah try poison the multitude inna food ya

Tell the children the truth

Slaverey nah utter go dash way dem juice

Remember this, tell the children the truth

Eat them vegetable ey eat the fruits

Tell them say, tell the children the truth

Hail King Selassie and go study all your African roots

Dem set table fi me and me tell dem me ????

Nah come deny me like the one name Delila

Dem move like spy and get caught by the spider

Chant with the lion ghetto youth dem feel live'r

Nuff Babylon dem ah move like McGuyver

Everything fi Babylon the whole ah dem die for

Yo dem go nyam it and go swallow saliva

Later on him heavy never get lighter

Couldn't make it with the youth

them pon them highten flight ya

Babylon yuh light cyar shine no brighter

Nah go lef cuz the worsen rout ya

Emperor Selassie I mighty'er

Go tell them say

[CHORUS:]

Tell the children the truth

Babylon yuh cyar poison no ghetto youth inna no food ya

Tell the children the truth

Iya Iya Iy Iy oh

Watch out fi them with them wrong intention

Them ah try get out the youths with them bad injection

Nuff ah dem ah come with them false deception

Hail King Selassie I afi him name we weapon

Babylon mi no trust you fi no minute nor second

Ministry of Agriculture yo ah you the fire deh pon

When dem nah poison you them shot you with dem weapon

The natural farmer Babylon you cyar step on

Plant your own food and things will go proper

Come from the root what you want then you prefer

And the fast food dem ah eat ah get lesser

Cause it make the ghetto youths ah end up in a mess ah

Natural food good fi the baby mother

When she want it fi her youths

she nah run me down round no corner

Pick the congo bong where? deh pon the farm ah

Iya Iy say natural food make your youths stronger

live longer ah

[CHORUS:]

Tell the children the truth

Babylon ah try poison the whole multitude inna food dem rude

Tell the children the truth

Hail King Selassie I you gone ah Ethiopian school yah

Tell the children the truth

Babylon yuh cyar poison this yah nation inna food no

Tell the children the truth

Me go hail King Selassie I

Them go leggo them order to the deli

Babylon food nuff ah dem did go smelly

And them little friend dem run go telly

Inna Babylon palce dem nah go dwelly

That's why dem end up like the one long belly

Later on hear them belly get swelly

Before them go ah bush go pick guava and jelly,

orange, apple pick nuff cherry,

make the woman get merry

Yo them too sloppy aye that's why dem life dem go lossy

Doh be like laffy, hail Emperor Selassie I

From the earth ah bring me fruits Babylon cyar stop it

So listen this

[CHORUS:]

Tell the nation the truth

Babylon ah try poison the ghetto youth them inna food move

Tell the children the truth

Hail King Selassie I ah dis yah one dem cyar dispute yah

Tell the children the truth

Empress nah make them poison off yuh ghetto youth yah

Tell the children the truth

Man not everywhere you go you fi nyam people food

Table fi you yo look tell them dem ???

Nah come deny you like the one name Delila

Yo dem move like fly and get caught by the spider

Sit up with the conquer'in lion it live'r

Yo yo dem ah move like McGuyver

All Babylon police them...