Rock Stone

Rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 I say, rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 Hear de man say
 R-R-Rock stone was my pillow
 Couldna find place fi sleep
 Pot dem empty, we haffi find food fi eat
 Everyday we terrorize
 By soldier and police
 When the thing dem a strum
 And the thing dem a beat
 From dem a play cowboy
 And Indian, and chief
 From the first, to the third
 Straight up to seven street
 One thing in a we mind
 Haffe trample the beast
 And make it in a life
 And inherit as the meek
 Self employed, cannot get lay off
 Mount a work mi have
 Can't even get a day off
 Who did waan fi stop mi now
 Dem find out seh dem way off
 Alright
 So mi seh one by one, one by one
 One by one we stepping out ah babylon
 And then one by one, one by one
 Hail the King Selassie I, the conquering lion
 Lion, Lion
 Rock stone was my pillow
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 Rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 I say, rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 Help us Jah
 Take us from the slum
 Neva giveup matta what
 Strictly fire burn
 Hail rasta, take us from the slum
 Neva giveup matta what
 King Selassie I blessing come
 Sufferation is a thing
 Could be no harder time
 Got to widen your views
 Got to broaden your mind
 What we face in the ghetto
 Nowhere else can you find
 Hunger, poverty, a system so unkind
 As a matter of fact
 There is an aftershock
 When cold ground was my bed
 And my pillow was a rock
 Try to make it through the system
 All the doors were locked
 Yet nothing beats a try
 And so I ain't go stop
 Mount a time they write a book on you
 A set amount a crap
 They would a put on you
 Yet when you in the dirt
 They wouldn't look on you
 They would only scorn
 And wanna wipe they foot on you
 So open up, Zion door
 Ethiopia Africa for sure
 Liberate the poor, the poor, ehhh
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 Mi nah lie, true mi hail
 Selassie I dem waah fi war I
 Read mi bible
 Turn to peace
 And praise 'tafari
 Goodbye babylon goodbye, goodbye
 Open up zion door
 Mount Zion Ethiopia for sure
 Children of Israel, children of Israel, Eh
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 Rock stone was my pillow
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 Rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 I say, rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 Hear me now
 Jah man me cool, nuh stumble like you
 Walk pon di street, me nuh gwaan for fool
 Arrive at the dance, di mic a my tool
 Eat pon table, sit inna stool
 Me black me brown, me brown no black
 Ribs an me chest, me spine a me back
 Wait till you hear, when dis riddim drop
 Head, you toe, you body a rock
 From mi pon di mic, Steve Marley ah chat
 Firm and strong, doh step pon the lot
 The peaceful, righteous, Rastaman
 Rod of correction, inna mi hand
 Preachin out to man and woman
 Give riches to King Solomon
 Now, bass come out, and treble a top
 Cap an no buck, an nuh a no cap
 Sweetest singer, was sugar minott
 Man a come in and ah give me a shot
 Dracula tun inna Vampire bat
 When him see sun, him cyah take that
 Eye dem dark, fi use contact
 I pon the mic, Raggamuffin a chat
 Fi mi head dread, me head it no plat
 Nuh fraid ah no mouse, nuh fraid ah no rat
 Pray to Jah, me never will stop
 We hot no cold, wah cold nuh hot
 Live in a house, no live in a flat
 Up inna zion, De righteous will top
 Jah blow breeze, the devil cannot
 Rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow
 I say, rock stone was my pillow
 Rock stone was my pillow