Rastaman a Come

Lyrics

[Joseph Talking] Hail, to the Most High God, Jah Rastafari Crown Him with many a crowns Kings of Kings and Lords of Lords The Conquering Lion, Tribe of Judah .. Haile Selassie. Selah [Verse 1] They just a stretch them neck Across the fences [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come They just a stretch them neck Across the fences [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come You have got to be clean inside You have got to be united [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come You have got to have charity And love within your heart [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come Can't be no prostitute living You have got to be clean and upful and right [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come Can't be grudgeful nah red eye Nah licky-licky nah eat swine [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come [Joseph Talking] Ja is powerful, Jah is eternal He say he shall come in a new name Which shall sound the terrible and dreadful among men His name is Jah, Rastafari Who lit all lightning who shook and tremble all earth You've got to have a stretch out hand To receive in your strange brother [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come The thing can't be too small To share amongst your brother [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come I would even be a footmat in Mount Zion And lay down [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come I will beat my drum And I will sit on the sand on the listening shore of Jamaica [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come They took me from Africa And leave us here on a pirate boat [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come My children, children, children Shall give a testimony of His life [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come We'll beat salvation drum from shore to shore From door to door [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come Iration drum is not a seed on the rich man table But on the table of the poor [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come Lickle Dread, Selassie I [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come Sound ye the trumpet of Zion That the inhabitants of Earth may see it [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come It's not a big song Neither a small song, Irie [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come It's not a jigsaw Neither a puzzle [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come Me no have fi have no spliff Me no have fi have no pipe [Chorus] Just to see when the Rastaman a come