Intro       Just organize and centralize my people

              Because Babylon have...

              Instilled malicious and grudged upon my people,yuh know

              Yuh see the dutty lifestyle...the Rastaman ah bu'n it!!!

 

Verse !    There's nothing in them system

               Of which they create all around,ey

               They criticize their own Idren

               Yet they would catch at a straw if they were to drown,ey!

               They not didifferent from those 

               Scribes and Pharisees who come around,ey!

               They lurks in the corners

               Skylarks in the streets,flirt in the towns

               They never do positive

               They find a joy making people business their own,ey

               Dance ah yard before yuh dance abroad

               The High Priest tell yuh dat and you dey frown

 

Chorus     Galong^,go get good ways,true grace

               Haffi purge fi pass Zion Gate

               You haffi have good ways--it give you long days

               Nah take no bribe from not a screw-face

               Go get good ways,good grace

               Purge fi pass Zion Gate

               You haffi have some good ways--it give you long days

               Aw! what do you say? ah tell yuh now

 

Verse 2    They await your downfall

               Fi go labba and talk--yow!

               Well dey greater joy ah commission

               Yuh haffi go have ah knock he jawbone fi laugh,aayy!

               When Babylon city ah go down

               Propaganda whey they spread becomes a dagger to them heart,ey!

               Think say them have a secret

               The baby reveal it,say them ah wok witchcraft,ow!

               Say dem better,so them ah close in

               Contempt the youth them whey they pass

               Every man ia equal

               Rastafari say trod not on the ungodly path

 

Chorus     Galong,go get good ways,long days

               Purge fi pass Zion Gate

               What about your good ways?--it give yuh length of days

               Yow,yow yuh taste

               So yuh medicine they taste

               Yeah,wha',wha' !

 

Verse 3    Ey! once them know

               Ah chat 'bout them this,them that

               Who slick from who flop,ey!

               Them say mash through bush

               And anything else whey fi come 

               Ah mus' be rubbish and trash--oy!

               Every day ah dat them practice

               The same ting,them never yet know when fi stop

               Full up ah bad mind!

               Then ah wah make yuh want fi see yuh brother drown

 

Chorus     Go and have some good ways,true grace

               Purge before yuh pass Zion Gate

               Go and have some good ways--it give you long days

               Oh! now them taste

               So they medicine they taste

               Good ways,long days

               Nah let go King Selassie through no screw-face

               Good ways--it give yuh length of days

               Nah take no bribe from no screw-face

               Just have some good ways--it give yuh length of days

               Aw! this ah one ah true faith

               Ah tell yuh now

 

Verse 1    There's nothing in the system

repeated   That they have create around

                Oh! they criticize their own high-trine^

                Yet they would cyah touch a straw if they were to drown

                Don't you see they're not much different 

                From the Scribes and the Pharisees who come around,yow

                They lurks in the corners

                Skylarks in the streets......