Be Not A Dread

Be not a Dread, neither a baldhead
 Just be a Ras with your pretty curly locks
 Because the name "Dread" portrays viciousness
 While the name "Ras" portrays righteousness
 It's true, it's true
 You know it's true, so true now
 Therefore not curse at what I might say
 Neither cut your locks and go astray
 For they are Ras in Africa
 A place called Ethiopia, yeh-hah
 Where bredrens grow their curly locks
 To show the world that they are Ras now
 It's true, it's true
 You know it's true, so true now
 So be not a Dread, neither a baldhead
 Just be a Ras with your pretty curly locks
 Because the name "Dread" portrays viciousness
 While the name "Ras" portrays righteousness
 It's true, it's true
 You know it's true, so true now
 Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya
 Mmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm
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 Be not a Dread, neither a baldhead
 Just be a Ras with your pretty curly locks
 Because the name "Dread" portrays viciousness
 While the name "Ras" portrays righteousness
 It's true, it's true
 You know it's true, so true now
 Now we are all children from Africa
 Living here in Jamaica
 Forced into exploitation and sufferation
 By the hands of the Babylonians
 So in order to keep our culture
 We got to love one another now
 It's true, it's true
 You know it's true, so true now
 So be not a Dread, neither a baldhead
 Just be a Ras with your pretty curly locks
 Because the name "Dread" portrays viciousness
 While the name "Ras" portrays righteousness
 It's true, it's true
 You know it's true, so true now
 Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya
 Mmmm-mmmmm, mmmmm-mmmmm
 Be not a Dread, be not a Dread.