Chorus:

It's getting red now

Oh mamma yeh, oh mamma yeh

It's getting dread now

Home and away, home and away

It's getting red now

Oh mamma yeh, oh mamma yeh

It's getting dread now

Home and away, home and away 


Verse 1:

The Eastern Mountain, yeh

You can reach if you give it all your vibes

Like the water from the fountain, yow

I tell you do good that's all there is to life.

Knowledge is golden, yow

You can reach if you really decide

Like the water from the fountain, yow

Tell you do good that's there is to life.

I will let no one stop you from beeing strong

Fi earth likewise a fi yuh opinion

What's your feelings

Check yourself know yuh position

When you flatter you dem with the flattering tongue

The enemies mob the heathens come inna gang

Emperor Selassie I is the protection

Years of servility, tears drop like bombs

Night and day never free without dawn

Check life: well a pure slavery deh gwaan

So mi come fi tell the people that the child was born.

Him a the government, Selassie I the Ethiopian

Strike to the devil with the education:

Proper, literate, to uplift the nation

Life: Thought: I hurt. I belong. 


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Verse 2:

The Eastern Mountain, yow

You can reach if you give it all your vibes

Like the water from the fountain, yow

Wanting to see what's on the other side

Knowledge is golden, yow

You can reach only if you decide

Like the water from the fountain, yow

Rasta man nah tell the ghetto youths them survive

Here the youths them crying

They were beingpushed aside

Only the best was proof enough to pulverise

The hopes, the understanding

That we still nah go slide

Children come together Rasta Far I deh rise

Better fly we together I survive

People of the colour must always be wise

From the depth of the valley up onto the sky

Even to be lucky police stop all the crimes

We nuh want nuh confusion round Rasta Far I

We bun the anxiety courageously smile, yow

Babylon we know you profile 


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Verse 3:

The Eastern Mountain, yow

You can reach only if you got the vibes

Like the rivers and the fountain, yow

I tell you do good and hail Rasta Far I

Knowledge is golden, yow

You can reach if you really decide

Like the rivers and the fountain, yow

Tell you be good and open up all your eyes

Oh, oh surely the omnipotent

Yours truly how Ras recommend

Tell Selassie King from the Ishent

Let the power of the empress guide the resident

Oh, the people from the south shall deal

With another, nah tell yu no doubt.

Commune with the western praises and shout

The eastern marching thy route 


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