RED - BLACK UHURU Michael Rose Puma Jones Duckie Simpson YOUTH OF EGLINGTON (M. Rose) The youths of Eglinton Won't put down their Remington The youth of Brixton They bave their 45 Smith and Wesson pistol pistol The youth of Utica Avenue They just can't keep cool So much gun shot some cripple some turn fool They are responsible for a lot of children And they need food And they want to go to school I say the youth of Eglington Won't put down their Remington I say the youth of Kingston Won't leave their Magnum pistol pistol A very thin line to start the crime Who wlll be the first to volunteer You love you love your fuckery Get up and get yourself together You hear the words of Jah Jah coming from the hill top of Dabra Dabra Keep you strength The youth of Eglington Won't put down their Remington I say the youth of Brixton They put down their 45 Smith and Wesson pistol pistol Stop and listen They want you to fight the good fight But save you strength For strength of life The youths in Africa All a dem a thriller I say the youth of Eglington Won't put down their Remington The youth of Kingston Won't leave their Magnum pistol pistol Poor Jill she was a spill she got hit by a stray shot The youths of Eglington Won't put down their Remington The youths of Brixton They put down their 45 Smith and Wesson pistol pistol SPONJI REGGAE (M. Rose) You bum right here and you bounce over there sponji reggae I say you bum right here and you bounce over there sponji reggae I say you rock right here and you rock over there sponji reggae I say you punch right here and you punch over there sponji reggae A keep trying very hard to succeed I almost lost my reflex My barefeet was burn That I almost lost my nerves My fingers are shaking as the day start breaking I could a never keep it no longer I had to tell it to one another Chorus: You bum right here Some say I am nuts zooky crazy Want I to leave the music alone They say go and look work I and I are lazy But I think for a while and say to my self It's a time for every style Chorus: I may not be a movie star I don't drive a big fancy car I can afford only a Winchester cigar From the day I was born and given life I and I a actor genius name it Genuine character Chorus: SISTREN (M. Rose and D. Simpson) If you have a sistren an she come from country town Home training and manners She never know Grandfather say oh mammy say forward gal a mountain side Mek she go wash tuh Mek she go wash tub Don't mek she go to waste Don't mek she go to waste Don't let she stand and wait oh Don't mek she face disgrace Don't let she go to waste Don't let she go to waste If you have a sistren and she come from woodland home Irie spirit she has when she greets you It shows grandfather say Oh mammy say forward gal a mountain side dub her up a ital fall Dub her up a ital fall Chorus In a earth I would like the blessing to be on all the chlldren of Israel For the fear of Jah is the beginning of wisdom The sistren qone natty dread All a wear tall frok instead Chorus Cultural vibes are her saying A piece of silver don't strike her eye She say reality is so nice So take care women African ruby I mean that truly Come mek we forward down a river to go beat old clothes JOURNEY (D. Simpson) Trodding the other day On journey so far away to make a living to see what I could achieve I saw city state Places of all human races They are standing in front of I and I Working scientifical advancement to corrupt the mind Babylon in their little way Thinking of all the benefits there of I and I humble lion chant Mount Zion I am at a pace Why you scrabbing my face Some must see they can earn Cause I and I Black Uhuru stand fine burn Brimstone burn brimstone burn Trodding the other day on a journey so far away away Trying to make a living to see what I can achieve For the benefits of my grief I saw men worklng seientifical advancement to corrupt the mind Babylon is their little way Brimstone burn brimstone burn Everything is trial Brimstone burn brimstone UTTERANCE (M. Rose) What a joy to hear the utterance of a Rasta (Repeat) Long long ago They use to say Rastafari going around taking little children away But now tlme is at hand I and I know those saying was wrong And that Rasta let them know their homeland And seek their culture What a joy to hear the utterance from a Rasta (Repeat) I and I was granted To drink from the fountain of life I God will make I hold tight I and I knee will not wabble I and I a V.I.P international And now they putting Rasta on the air Before that they used live in fear What a joy to hear the utterance of a Rasta (Repeat) There is a way that seemeth right to man And yet in Jah Jah sight it wrong It's not what you do is how you do it It's not what you say but how you say it You going be shot with shit Go down In It What a joy to hear the utterance from a Rasta (Repeat) PUFF SHE PUFF (M. Rose) Puff she puff no bother puff pon Rasta Tough she tough no bother puff pon Rasta Puff she puff no bother puff pon Rasta Makinq love on hungry belly I couldn't cope too long With my bare long hands I am embarrassed most the time But it's not no crime Children crying day and night can't find mummy A puff she puff no bother puff pon Rasta she puff she puff She just a puff pon Rasta She say rude Tough she tough hard she hard A no soft she soft Puff she puff She just a puff pon Rasta Anough she nough you kinna nough pon Rasta Money I Can hardly find And white scrawl a bite Simple things are so serious In these time The things that you do and upset some day and regret Tough tough tough she tough A puff she puff No bothcr puff pon Rasta Puffy puff Claim she tough She just a puff she just a puff pon Rasta Many a times when I check my life style A been a living in another foot step of another man I no man man a fallure She just a puff She just a puff pon Rasta She puffy puff She claims she tough she just a Chuck No bother chuck pon Rasta Man find himself doing all manner of evil I and I a ion's So no bother come gwaan bout you tough A nuff you nuff ROCKSTONE (M. Rose and D. Simpson) Throwing rockstone upon a dumper truck Throwing rockstone upon a dumper truck Men standing over I and I and we are not wild Forcing jack hammers through the concrete wall That's the only way a dread can make a bread Satta dread satta you time soon come Throwing rockstone upon a dumper truck Throwing rockstone upon a dumper truck I and I fore parents did have all the riches Now it's taken away And dem work iniquity and a burn bad lamp pon dem wanna neda Dem a burn bad lamp and work iniquity wo oh Everytime I work on this truck mi tear off mi shirt I trod it ital but duckie stich his own up We fling rockstone upon a dumper truck Throwing rockstone upon a dumper truck Throwing rockstone upon a dumper truck Packing up rockstone upon a dumper truck The Queen would like to know I and I know that for sure Cause we down yea We are the slave We are the slave Digging digglng Down a sandy gully We do the holly gully Enjoying plenty of collie CARBINE (M. Rose) Civilian warring among each other Only to achieve their coffin So I and I stay away in the big apple And trod it with care though its full of maggots Cost of living reach the sky And no ones knows why It's just revolution time So Cool off Cool off the carbine a yard Cool off cool off thc carbine a yard Be attentive to my call of Jah I remember days of long ago These thinge used to poison my people I am willing I am concerned With the works of your own hand Brings the activity of nature The morning cause I and I to hear The loving kindness of Jah Everytime when I put my trust in Jah never wrong so I say Cool off Cool off the carbine a yard So cool off Cool off Don't go a funeral so cool off can't tek the deddas Cool off cool off the carblne a yard It's a gunshot season And we got overstanding So it's best to qet down and reason Stop trusting in the abundant of your riches All you speak of is evolution It's mind blowinq without direction And situation objection corruption Cool off cool off The carbine a yard Cool off cool off The carbine a yard So I say cool off cool off the carbine a yard There is an understanding To everything that is seen in existence So cool off cool off the carbine MUSICIANS Drums & Syndrums y Sly Dunbar Bass Gultar . Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare Percussion . Sticky Thompson Rhythm Guitar y Ranchie McLean & Mikey Chung Piano . Robert Lyn, Keith Sterling & Robert Shakespeare Lead Guitar y Mikey Chung, Dougie Bryan, Ranchie McLean & Barry Reynolds Recorded at Channel One Studio, Kingston. Jamaica and Compass Point Studios, Nassau. Sound Engineer Soldgie Vocal Engineer y Maxie Guitar overdubs Engineer - Kendall Stubbs Mixed at Compass Point Studios, Nassau By: Steven Stanley, Robert Shakespeare & Sly Dunbar PRODUCED BY SLY DUNBAR AND ROBERT SHAKESPEARE Executive Producer Chris Blackwell Photography . Jonnie Black Cover Design y Denise & Bruno Dress Design by Ruth McLeod tor The Jabberwocky Womans Art Collective 1981 Island Records Ltd.