Gonna show them

Yea man

And ah Imperor Selassie I

Ah him we hail ow

The aincient of days never coil

Rastafari love prevail

Ey


CHORUS

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Babylon yuh wrenk yah

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Redder judgement ah tell yuh

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Babylon get drench yah

Can't cool can't quench Ethiopia my true heart desire

Aww Babylon


Den how is it you get your food to eat

and yet you find it hard

to feed another youth that come up at your feet

Den how is it you always ah strive

and yet you find it hard

fi show another ghetto youth how fi survive

That's why ah King Selassie I we'll praise

run go tell Pharoh him city dey go blaze

Me know ah King Rastafari dey pon he throne

Babylon we dey dash brimstone

Da one ya name


CHORUS

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Babylon yuh wrenk yah

Can't cool can't quench Africa my true heart desire

Black parents ey

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Babylon yuh wrenk ey

Can't cool can't quench Africa my true heart desire

Redder judgement


The ghetto you put down inna the pit

Dem judge and dem jury just ah grin and ah grit

and all dem police and them soldier say dem really unfit

The sniper dem bring say him nah shoot and miss

The Black rights kingdom stand for equal rights and justice

eh true human rights well ah government no miss

Rastafari did know say PJ ah the false and hypocrites

And dem ah go bring Bruce Golding fi make ah big devil switch

Well Rasta drop *Seaga inna the bottomless pit

nah follow the evil mama gonna spank you real quick

Well dash another fire pon John public

me tell uno cease from uno war and wickedness

Inna fornication ink dem gun finger dem go dip

And ah chat bout dem ah voter hot wine dem ah sip

Me say red gold and green inna every district

and Ethiopia bear the witness

This ah wha da name


CHORUS

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Babylon yuh wrenk yah

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Redder judgement ah tell yuh

Can't cool can't quench everlasting burning fire

Babylon get drench yah

Can't cool can't quench Ethiopia my true heart desire

Aww aw


Yea man and Black people should know that it is slavery

why we are here in Jamaica the western world you know

See me ah show you say yea man

It is written in the book of Brittain and America that it was only

I n I the Black Ethiopian that were taken out of Black Africa you know

illegal yes captives you know slave children and brought us down here

in Jamaica and all small islands of the Brittish West Indies into slavery

onto this day say the most high Selassie I Jah Rastafari

Rastafari know


Me tell dem say ah innocent blood ah spill

fi the arc of the covenant Babylon ah kill

They want Rasta thrown them no got no power nor will

They want dada crown mama pearl and jewel

I tell you say the sceptre shall not depart until

the golden globe with the simple earth fill

This man was born here prophecy dey fulfil

Stretch your hand to Ethiopia Mount Zion ill

You never get the win coulda never get it nil

And ah tell yuh dis ah lick down Babylon like a power drill

Well Pharoh them ya fire cyar chill

Repatriation Babylon me melt yuh will

Then da ya name


Cyar cool cyar quench