Yayayaya Selassie is the almighty I 

Wo yow, My meditation going like a dove 


Wo, stop alla keep failing 

To fulfill black people words, hey 

King Selassie I me hailing 

Anna dem go trouble poor people first 


Anytime now 

babylon dem a go ge a red 

'Fraid, babylon a get 'fraid 

Anytime now 

di prisoners dem a go escape 

Slave master place a go blaze 

Anytime now 

Police dem a go get a red 

'Fraid, government a get 'fraid 

Anytime now 

Babylon, yuh must get a red 

Nuff cutchi man nuff a dem run go shave 


Woi, I'd rather to be 

With the people I lead 

Give dem my daily strength 

And showing dem a dearly need 

And I'd rather to see 

more love than grief 

That's the only way di ghetto youths a go achieve 

And I rather to be 

With the people in need 

Babylon system only come yah so fi deceive 

I rather to listen a nah to word receive 

Dem a go cut di woman breast and bust di man dem seed 

Mussa perish, long time me see it 

Black people back up an yard inna di east 

Tell di Indian say fi go look fi dem chief 

Tell di white man from a Europe, go island seek 

Hey, Rastaman no got no secret a keep 

There will be a weeping an a wailing an a gnashing of teeth 

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Come out inna di clear, behind wall dem a peep 

Nothing fi di white man, black man nah do it 

Black woman, stop sweep di white woman street 

Di ghetto youths go study babylon technique 

A so me see say 

Vatican get defeat 


Anytime now 

Babylon dem a go get a red 

'Fraid, Babylon a get 'fraid 

Anytime now 

Yah, redder fire deh go blaze 

Stop treat people like slave 

Anytime now 

Di prisoners dem a go escape 

Too long dem deh in deh yah bake 

Anytime now 

Babylon dem a go get a red 

Man haffi go repatriate 


Dem make dem sattelite and dem launch it a space 

Mash up di o-zone layer 

Babylon a fake 

Sun a burn redder, and it a strip dem face 

Could deh dem look like all (?) weh dey bake 

Watch a make di Rastaman deal wid dem case 

Ask dem dis question before it too late 

Babylon, a why yuh dump your toxic waste 

You no see say dat yuh make a big mistake 

Now tell me who end up like bait 

Dem hold down black people 

to send white people through di gate 

Woi, Rastaman a agitate 

Revolution, caw we must repatriate 


Anytime now 

Babylon dem a go get a red 

'Fraid di government get fraid 

Anytime now 

Babylon dem a go get a red 

Dem seperate we and still wan' enslave 

Anytime now 

Babylon dem a go get a red 

and Mister babylon, you nah save 

Anytime now 

Babylon dem a go get a red 

Because di prisoners dem a go escape 


Di whole a dem a dis di I-ncient of days 

Got inna di Atlantic Ocean 

Gone fire dem lace 

Fi make di iceburg fi return di ice age 

Di west a go sink when di water table raise 

Babylon you stink, an yuh wan bad 

Yo no badda think di youth a tell you dis brave 

I black mother nah be your maid 

Work me black father, and dem never get paid 

Oh, babylon so much a we a come a enslave 

I build di building, di road dem we pave 

See dem now, see dem now, see dem now 

From yuh dis your own a judgement you made 


(repeat 1st chorus till fade)