BABYLON BY BUS

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  • Back to Index Contents: 1. Positive Vibration 2. Punky Reggae Party 3. Exodus 4. Stir It Up 5. Rat Race 6. Concrete Jungle 7. Kinky Reggae 8. Lively Up Yourself 9. Rebel Music 10. War 11. Is This Love 12. The Heathen 13. Jammin'
    
    
    POSITIVE VIBRATION
    
    Live if you want to live
    Rastaman vibration yeah! Positive
    I and I vibration yeah! Positive
    I a man iration yeah! Irie ites
    Positive vibration yeah! Positive
    
    If you get down and quarrel everyday
    You're saying prayers to the devil, I say
    Why not help one another on the way
    Make it much easier
    
    Say you just can't live that negative way
    You know what I mean
    Make way for the positive day
    Cause it's a new day
    New time, new feeling yeah!
    Say it's a new sign
    Oh what a new day
    
    Picking up,
    Are you picking up now
    JAH love, JAH love protect us (repeat)
    
    Rastaman vibration yeah! Positive
    I and I vibration yeah! Positive
    I a man iration yeah! Irie ites
    Vibes, got to have a good vibe
    Picking up,
    Are you picking up now (repeat)
    
    
    PUNKY REGGAE PARTY
    
    ...
    
    
    EXODUS
    
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    men and people will fight ya down
    when ya see JAH light
    let me tell you if you're not wrong
    everything is allright
    walk, through the roads of creation
    we're the generation
    who trod through great tribulation
    
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    
    open your eyes and look within
    are you satisfied with the life 
    you're living
    we know where we're going
    we know where we're from
    we're leaving babylon 
    into our father's land
    
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
    Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
    movement of JAH people
    movement of JAH people
    movement of JAH people
    movement of JAH people
    
    move, move, move, movement of JAH people
    
    JAH come to breakdown downpression, rule equality
    wipe away transgression
    and set the captives free
    
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    Exodus, movement of JAH people
    
    
    STIR IT UP
    
    Stir it up little darlin' stir it up
    Oh yeah, yeah
    Stir it up little darlin'
    
    It's been a long long time
    Since I had you on my mind
    Now you are here it's so very clear
    There's so much we could do
    Just me and you
    Come on and stir it up little darlin'
    
    I'll push the wood, light the fire
    I'll satisfy your hearts desire
    I will stir it every, every minute
    All you have to do, girl,
    Is keep it in it
    
    Quench me when I'm thirsty
    Cool me down baby when I'm hot
    Your recipe is so tasty
    When you show and stir your pot
    
    
    RAT RACE
    
    Ah! Ya too rude
    Oh what a rat race
    Oh what a rat race
    This is the rat race
    
    Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacket
    Oh what a rat race, rat race
    
    Some a gorgan, some a hooligan, some a guine-gog
    In this rat race, yeah!
    Rat race
    I'm singing
    When the cats away
    The mice will play
    Political voilence fill ya city
    Yea-ah!
    Don't involve Rasta in your say say
    Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.
    Rat race, rat race, rat race
    When you think is peace and safety
    A sudden destruction
    Collective security for surety
    Yeah!
    
    Don't forget your history
    Know your destiny
    In the abundance of water
    The fool is thirsty
    Rat race, rat race, rat race
    
    Oh it's a disgrace to see the
    Human-race in a rat race, rat race
    You got the horse race
    You got the dog race
    You got the human-race
    But this is a rat race, rat race
    
    
    CONCRETE JUNGLE
    
    No sun will shine in my day today
    The hich yellow moon won't come out to play
    I said darkness has covered my light
    And the stage my day into night
    Where is the love to be found
    Won't someone tell me
    Cause life must be somewhere to be found
    Instead of concrete jungle
    Where the living is harder
    
    Concrete jungle
    Man you got to do your best
    No chains around my feet
    But I'm not free
    I know I am bound here in captivity
    yeh-I've never known the happiness
    I've never known what sweet caress is
    Still-I'll be always laughing like a clown
    Won't somebody help me 'cause
    I've got to pick myself from off the ground
    In this ya concrete jungle
    I said what do you got for me now
    Concrete jungle ah won't you let me be now
    
    
    KINKY REGGAE
    
    I went downtown
    I saw miss brown
    She had brown sugar
    All over her booga-wooga
    
    I think I might join the fun
    But I had to hit and run
    See I just can't settle down
    In a kinky part of town
    
    Ride on
    Don't you know I've got to oh baby ride on,
    See I just can't settle down
    Oh I'm a leaving town
    
    Kinky reggae take me away
    Kinky reggae, kinky reggae, kinky reggae now,
    Kinky ride on, ride on baby
    
    I went down to picadilly circus
    Down there I saw marcus
    He had a candy bar
    
    
    LIVELY UP YOURSELF
    
    You're gonna lively up yourself
    And don't be no drag,
    You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag
    You lively up yourself and don't say no
    You're gonna lively up yourself cause I said so
    
    (Hear what you gonna do)
    You rock so you rock so like you never did before
    You dip so you dip so, dip thru my door
    You come so you come so oh yeah
    You skank so you skank so be alive today
    
    You're gonna lively up yourself and don't say no
    You lively up yourself big daddy says so
    You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
    You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag
    
    What you got that I don't know
    I'm a trying to wonder why you act so
    (Hey, do you hear what the man seh?)
    Lively up your woman in the morning time you'all
    Keep a lively up your woman when the evening come
    And take her take ya.
    
    You rock so you rock so you dip so you dip so
    You skank so you skank so and don't be no drag
    You come so you come so for reggae is another bag.
    
    Get what you got in that bag
    What have you got in the other bag
    You got hanging there?
    What you say you got?
    I don't believe you!
    
    
    REBEL MUSIC (3 O'CLOCK ROADBLOCK)
    
    I, rebel music
    I, rebel music
    Why can't we roam this open country
    Oh why can't we be what we want to be
    We want to be free
    
    3 o'clock - roadblock, curfew
    And I've got to throw away
    Yes I've got to throw away
    Yes I've got to throw away
    My little herb stalk
    
    I, rebel music
    I, rebel music
    
    Take my soul and suss me out
    Check my life if I am in doubt
    3 o'clock - roadblock
    And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
    (What you say down there)
    Ain't got no birth certificate on me now
    
    I, rebel music
    I, rebel music
    Take my soul and suss me out
    Check my life if I am in doubt
    3 o'clock - roadblock
    And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
    (What you say down there)
    Ain't got no birth certificate on me now.
    
    
    WAR
    
    What life has taught me
    I would like to share with
    Those who want to learn...
    
    Until the philosophy which hold one race
    Superior and another inferior
    Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
    Everywhere is war, me say war
    
    That until there are no longer first class
    And second class citizens of any nation
    Until the colour of a man's skin
    Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
    Me say war
    
    That until the basic human rights are equally
    Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
    Dis a war
    
    That until that day
    The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
    Rule of international morality
    Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
    To be persued, but never attained
    Now everywhere is war, war
    
    And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
    that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
    South Africa sub-human bondage
    Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
    Well, everywhere is war, me say war
    
    War in the east, war in the west
    War up north, war down south
    War, war, rumours of war
    
    And until that day, the African continent
    Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
    We find it necessary and we know we shall win
    As we are confident in the victory
    
    Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
    Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
    
    IS THIS LOVE
    
    I wanna love you, and treat you right
    I wanna love you, every day and every night
    We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
    We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
    We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread
    
    Is this love, is this love, is this love
    Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)
    I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now
    I got to know, got to know, got to know now
    I'm willing and able
    So I throw my cards on your table
    I wanna love you and treat you right
    I wanna love you, every day and every night
    We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
    We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
    We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread
    
    Is this love, is this love, is this love
    Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)
    Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes I know now (repeat)
    
    I'm willing and able
    So I throw my cards on your table
    See I wanna love you, I wanna love and treat
    You right, I wanna love you, every day and every night
    We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
    We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
    We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread
    
    
    THE HEATHEN
    
    Rise up fallen fighters
    Rise and take your stance again.
    'Cause he who fight and run away
    Live to fight another day.
    
    Chorus:
    
    As a man sow, shall he reap
    And I know that talk is cheap.
    So the hotter the battle
    Is the sweeter the victory.
    
    Rise up freedom fighters
    Rise and take your stance again.
    'Cause he who fight and run away
    Live to fight another day.
    
    Chorus
    
    
    JAMMIN'
    
    We're jamming
    I wanna jam it with you,
    We're jamming, jamming
    And I hope you like jamming too
    
    Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow
    I and I will see you through,
    'Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice
    Jamming till the jam is through.
    
    We're jamming
    To think that jamming was a thing of the past,
    We're jamming, jamming
    And I hope this jam is gonna last
    
    No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow
    Neither can be bought or sold.
    We all defend the right, JAH JAH children must unite
    Your life is worth much more than gold.
    
    We're jamming, jamming
    We're jamming in the name of the Lord
    We're jamming, jamming
    We're jamming right straight from JAH
    
    Holy mount Zion
    Holy mount Zion
    JAH sitteth in Mount Zion
    And rules all Creation
    
    Yeah, we're jamming, jamming
    I wanna jam it with you
    We're jamming, jamming
    I'm jammed, I hope you're jamming too
    
    Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide
    Too Keep you satisfied.
    True love that now exist is the love I can't resist
    So jam by my side.