Tikya the Blackheart Man, children I say, don't go near him Tikya the Blackheart Man children For even lions fear him (repeat)
Growing in a neighbourhood for such along time That is filled with fear I can't go here, can't go there And I ain't supposed to go anywhere When I ask my Mom if she could let me go out and play She said be careful of the stranger Giving candies to children And then take them away
He lives in the gullies of the city He's the Blackheart Man (The blackheart Man)
Even in the lonely parts of the country He's the Blackheart Man, Blackheart Man Got no friend, no home, no family He's the Blackheart 'Man, The Blackheart Man He is famed to live just like the Gypsy He's the Blackheart 'Man, The Blackheart Man
Growing and learning and gathering, for myself a little more experience jumping over the fence Curiousity has brought me yes it's brought me, a little common-sense Trodding the road of life, I've come to this one conclusion That everything is equal under the sun, all that is createdby JAH mighty hand And he said knock and it shall be opened Seek and Ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, In the nick of time, knock and it shall be opened Seek and ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of time and now I trod the same road of aflictions just like the Blackheart Man, just like the Blackheart Man Getting my share of humiliation just like the Blackheart Man Just like the Blackheart Man You'll find me even in the prison of the dungeons just like the Blackheart Man, just like the the Blackheart Man I even get blamed without a reason just like the Blackheart Man Just like the Blackheart man yau
No cross, no crown, no sorrow, no trial and crosses In-a-I way But the hotter the battle is the sweeter JAH JAH victory Ancient children use to say if you want good Your nose got to run run run How could the world go free, and let JAH bear the cross alone And them that drink of the old wine hath no place for the new For the new and the stones that are head of the corner are the same one that the builders refused Now, it's the Blackheart Man, children Who've become the wonder of the city (rep).
Battering down sentence, Fighting Against Convictions (2X) I find myself growing in an environment Where finding food is just as hard as paying the rent In trodding these roads of trials and tribulations I've seen where some have died in desperation To keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
In a family of ten and raised in the ghetto Hustling is the only education I know Can't grow no crops in this concrete jungle A situation like this is getting too hard to handle To keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
With a pregnant woman, yes and five kids to care for Can't cool my heels, I've got to do the town As skillful as I am, the jailer-man is bound to find me I pray the day will come when I shall be free from Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
To be trapped and caught and taken before judge and angry jury Pleading before men, who seem to have no mercy Can't afford to find myself down in the dungeons I've got to stay free so that my kids won't be Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
Now a fugitive at large Could this be my destiny With no one to care for the wellfare of my family But in solitude I've found new faith and hope in this I'll be secure For mind and soul would soon be weary Just couldn't take no more Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions
Never never knew that the time would come when every man must find where he does come from never never knew that the day would come when every fig must find its fig tree
jump little figs into your tree and say you are free. say you are free I've been rebuked and I've been scorned, rejected of men, now i'm born to start a new, so wont you too, my loved ones come drink new wine with me lets live and love in peace and harmony and say we are free, say we are free
in my fig tree, where i wanna be, so safe and free in my fig tree, where i long to be from all misery Now ever man is a man and every mickle mak a mottle don't free some and put some in a shackle for now is the time and the time is now when we should live like in the days of old when every sheep had their fold
to say they were free, say they were free in my fig tree, where i wanna be, so safe and free in my fig tree, where i long to be from all misery. in my my my my fig tree where i long to be......
There's a land that I have heard about So far across the sea To have you all, my dreamland Would be like heaven to me We'll get our breakfast from the tree We'll get our honey from the bees We'll take a ride on the waterfalls And all the glories, we'll have them allAnd we'll live together on that dreamland And have so much fun Oh, what a time that will be Oh yes, we'll wait, wait, wait and see We'll count the stars up in the sky......And surely we'll never die
Them kill Limumba for his own-a-rights, But them can't kill the Rasta Man at all, 'tall, 'tall. Them can't kill the Rasta Man at all.
That's the strangest man I've seen. (That's because he's a Rasta Man) Having the mark of a Nazarine. (That's because he's a Rasta Man) He carries a prophetical message. (That's because he's a Rasta Man) Borning out of time and out of age. (That's because he's a Rasta Man)
The Rasta come from Zion. Rasta Man a Lion. (Oh what a Rasta Man) (repeat)
Remember Jeremiah children. (He was a Rasta Man) Or even Iziah. (He was a Rasta Man) Moses in the pit of mud. (He was a Rasta Man)
Trodding from Buzrak with his garments dipped in blood. (He was a Rasta Man)
Oh what a dread, dread whola one, The Rasta Man come from Zion. What a strange, what a dread, but a righteous man, The Rasta Man, him come from Zion. What a dread, dread up-full one, The Rasta Man come from Zion.
What a dread-black, dread-lock one, The Rasta Man come from Zion.
Lightening! Seven years years of famine for seven years of plenty Is like two grains of wheat for one bale of barley. A hand-full of corn shall be on the hillside And with that you've got to be satisfied.
It was Elijha who prayed that it did not rain. (He was a Rasta Man) He prayed and the rains came again. (He was a Rasta Man) It was Joshua who commanded the sun stand still. (He was a Rasta Man) He did that according to his Master's will. (Who was a Rasta Man)
What a dread, dread whola one, The Rasta Man come from Zion. What a strange, what a dread, but a up-full one. The Rasta Man come from Zion. What a black, dread up-full one. The Rasta Man come from Zion. What a strange, dread-lock one. The Rasta Man come from Zion.
What a dread, what a dread, what a whola one. The Rasta Man come from Zion. What a dread, dread lightening one. The Rasta Man come from Zion. What a strange dread, dread earthquake one. The Rasta Man come from Zion.
We are reincarnated souls from that time Living on earth, heat air and water in this time (rep.)
In the beginning was the word And the word manifested itself in the flesh
Which ever become man All because of the devine plan Man being lower than the angels, Over all earth was as he given dominion He devised his own destruction But the word lives on and on
He who is weary let him come hither He who has eves to see Let him look yonder He who is thirsty let him drink clear water Drink water children Drink my water children For it's the age of aquarius Can't you see its dawning, dawning It's the age of aquarius Can't you see its dawning, dawning It's the age of aquarius So keep your love lights burning. burning
No more worrying, worrying and pains No more crying, shedding tears like rain For the master has come back Gathering all his flock Mother nature feeds the stock Never wanting or ever lack So bide up, with reasoning Humble thyself and I'll be near thee. Bide up, with reasoning Humble thyself and I'll protect thee Frustrated children, humiliation was not in vain Through effort, time and history Have now found eternal gain for the dark clouds do bring rain Then comes the sun to shine again So we shall walk and not look back as living examples cause we're black, So bide up with reasoning Humble thyself and I'll be near thee Bide up with reasoning Humble thyself and I'll protect thee No more worrying, worrying and pains No more crying, shedding tears like rain
When I was just a kid, little children My old man used to sing a litle song But now I've grown to be a man But it still lingers deep within my soul Oh yes it lingers deep within my soul
He say now this train it is bound to glory, this train This train it is bound to glory this train, this train This train it is bound to glory, This train it don't carry no unholy This train is bound to glory, this train
Now this train it don't carry no backsliders, this train This train don't carry no backsliders, this train This train it don't carry no backsliders this train only carrry JAH JAH children this train it is bound to glory, this train Play a little song for me
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This train don't carry no unholy this train. This train don't carry no unholy this train This train it don't carry no unholy, This train only carry the children of JAH This train it is bound to glory, this train
There's so many things to remember So many things to forget But these word they do linger deep within my soul Lingers deep within my soul
He say now this train it is bound to glory, this train This train it is bound to glory this train, this train This train it is bound to glory, This train it don't carry no unholy This train is bound to glory, this train
(let me hear the choir sing) This train This train This train (I don't wanna be late) This train This train
This train is bound to glory This train is bound to glory. Yau (repeat)
(ADLIBBING), I'll be turning back for no brother no sister no friend no nothing at all
I'll be crabbing the morning train the evening train will be too late (repeat)
Grab on brothers Grab on sisters Grab on mother Grab on father Grab on friend THIS TRAIN.
