1. COOL AND CALM Standing on the corner Reasoning with your Bredren You never mean no trouble You never do no harm Taking it cool and calm And a so we a gwaan Gwaan gwaan gwaan Over in the ghetto Tribulations I know now Never seem to leave I and I Bredrens no time at all No time at all Standing on the corner Conversing with your Sistren You never mean no trouble You never do no harm Taking it cool and calm And a so we a gwaan Gwaan gwaan gwaan 2. JAH LOVE ME Albert Craig Now you see my face Do you love me yea I live a jahful way Do you love me yea I grow my Natty Dreadlocks Do you love me yah I give Praises so high Do you love me yea I take arise in love with jah Dem a grudge me yah Word a judge me yea Mind cracking sys[em But they dont care We are the victim The wears and tears yea I don't mind what the heathen say Jah Jah love me yah I don't mind what they su-su-say Jah Jah love me 3. PAYDAY Cecil Spence One day got to be payday Payday, go to haffe come my way Sitting over there Under your false pretense Living so nice Off the poor man's expense Hungry man got to roam the street I tell you, white squall Is such a terrible threat One day got to be payday Payday coming what may One day you got to haffe big payday Where, where, where is my share? Tell me it's Up, Up in the air How, how could I get my share? You reply, try upon a broken chair One day (etc ) Ain't gonna be your hally button, Work for nothin By the sweat of my brow, I wanna eat my bread One day (etc.) 4. GREEDY DOG Lacelle Bulgin See you in the morning As the sun rise It's just another day For you to realize The time is dread Oh, Rasta Children If you stay in these corners They kill you with tax I say I rather to be Where the grass is green always Sitting under a tree Where there's a running stream yea Yet never the less It's because of the situation Why we find ourselves Down here inna babylon And I know We naugh go bow down low And I know We naugh go bow down low For, eye see kill Miss Thomas pus And the greedy dog lose the bone Just can't find The way to come home For as he was crossing the bridge So then he Looked down in the waters And he saw his shadow And he opened his mouth And his bone fell out So when he opened his mouth Then his bone fell out So long. 5. DONT WANT APARTHEID Albert Craig We don't want no racism We don't want apartheid oh no no We don't want no parshality yea So run come come Stand up and chant it Run come come Come and see wha de gwaan R~n come come Yes I man sight it Run come come Come and see wha de gwaan Them so violently But we must be free See how them fuss and rage In this redemption age Run come come (etc ) 6. PERFECT LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING Cecil Spence I'm saying it's you Then you come and tell me That it's me Then we started to fight How could that be right? Liberty, cause with Carelessness you see If you lie down with dog Sure you can go rise up with flea And if you mash fe me corn Sure you can go mek me yawn And if you scratch fe me back Sure me ago scratch fe yours too All we need is Perfect love and understanding And if we try try try We can work this out 7. LIVE AND GIVE Lacelle Bulgin Live and give The best of your ability Live and forgive Your Brothers And your Sisters And if you don't forgive How do you expect To be forgiven For the many wrongs Of which you have done Causing so many people Not to have no fun, ay Live and give etc. Even on a daily basis Pure tribal conflict Sometimes for a vial of crack Another time It's a criminal act Can't you see There is something lacking What abour your Black black love That is coming from afar Can't afford to lose out now Down inna babylon Live and give (etc ) 8. THE MIDDLE EAST Albert Craig Until we find A way to move, yah Our love for each other Will have ro improove This ya roots rock reggae Cot the groove, yah You better take warning No time to loose, wo yea Watch the middle east It start from there This ya third world slaughler Headin for the west frontier, yah Until we find a way To leave the west, o yes Our love for each other Must be the strongest So much doctrine So much opinion, o yes But it's One Jah, One Glory The Highest Region 9. STRENGTH OF MY LOVE Cecil Spence Now that the wolves Start shed clothing There'll be less confusion Not much carousing Jah, you're the Strength of my life Of whom I and I must be afraid Purify, purify my soul Quench our thirst with water Woman went to fill Her water pot Down in the bottom Of Jah well Jah gave her the water That was not Into the bottom of the well Jah, you're the Strength of my life Of who I and I must be afraid My cup is filled Cot to overflow And where Jah send I I got to go. In the bosom of the beast Or even the belly Of the whale Jah, you're the Strength of my life (etc.) Can't be like Jonah In no overload His idrens Had to throw him overboard Jah, you're the Strength of my life (etc.)