Rock Stone

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

I say, rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Hear de man say

R-R-Rock stone was my pillow

Couldna find place fi sleep

Pot dem empty, we haffi find food fi eat

Everyday we terrorize by soldier and police

When the thing dem a strum and the thing dem a beat

From dem a play cowboy and Indian, and Chief

From the first, to the third

Straight up to seven street

One thing in a we mind haffe trample the beast

And make it in a life and inherit as the meek

Self employed, cannot get lay off

Mount a work mi have, can't even get a day off

Who did waan fi stop mi now

Dem find out seh dem way off, alright

So mi seh one by one, one by one

One by one we stepping out ah Babylon

And then one by one, one by one

Hail the King Selassie I, the Conquering Lion

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

I say, rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Help us Jah, take us from the slum

Neva giveup matta what, strictly fire burn

Hail Rasta, take us from the slum

Neva giveup matta what, King Selassie I blessing come

Sufferation is a thing, could be no harder time

Got to widen your views, got to broaden your mind

What we face in the ghetto, nowhere else can you find

Hunger, poverty, a system so unkind

As a matter of fact there is an aftershock

When cold ground was my bed and my pillow was a rock

Try to make it through the system

All the doors were locked

Yet nothing beats a try and so I ain't go stop

Mount a time they write a book on you

A set amount a crap they would a put on you

Yet when you in the dirt they wouldn't look on you

They would only scorn and wanna wipe they foot on you

So open up, Zion door, Ethiopia Africa for sure

Liberate the poor, the poor, ehhh

Mi nah lie, true mi hail Selassie I dem waah fi war I

Read mi Bible, turn to peace and praise 'Tafari

Goodbye Babylon goodbye, goodbye

Open up Zion door, Mount Zion Ethiopia for sure

Children of Israel, children of Israel, eh

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

I say, rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Hear me now

Jah man me cool, nuh stumble like you

Walk 'pon di street, me nuh gwaan for fool

Arrive at the dance, di mic a my tool

Eat 'pon table, sit inna stool

Me black me brown, me brown no black

Ribs an me chest, me spine an' me back

Wait till you hear, when dis riddim drop

Head, you toe, yuh body a rock

From mi 'pon di mic, Steve Marley ah chat

Firm and strong, doh step 'pon the lot

The peaceful, righteous, Rastaman

Rod of correction, inna him hand

Preachin' out to man and woman

Give riches to King Solomon

Now, bass come out, and treble a top

Cap an no buck, an nuh buck a no cap

Sweetest singer, was Sugar Minott

Man a come in and ah give me a shot

Dracula tun inna Vampire bat

When him see sun, him cyah take that

Eye dem dark, fi use contact

I 'pon the mic, Raggamuffin a chat

Fi mi head dread, me head it no plat

Nuh fraid ah no mouse, nuh fraid ah no rat

Pray to Jah, me never will stop

We hot no cold, wah cold nuh hot

Live in a house, no live in a flat

Up inna Zion, thee righteous will top

Jah blow breeze, the devil cannot

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow

I say, rock stone was my pillow

Rock stone was my pillow