Yea we say to all government this is repatriation yea

Step down it's true Babylon yea I and I govern the youth yuh know

Hand over yuh know, repatriation nah bother play like yuh deaf now


What does Black people made of made of

African tradition I tell you straight off straight off

So long that they had take us

inna this western hemisphere and couldn't break us Pharaoh

What does Black people made of made of

Truths and rights I tell you straight off straight off

So long that they had take us

But now Black people better wake up, oy


CHORUS

Burn Nya burn down Babylon place

inna them high and low place

wickedness me deh go chase

Oh burn Nya burn down Babylon place

them ah interrogate,

wha me herb fi keep space


Just now they come to realize it, somehow they had want to criticise

Black people get the worst yet them doh have no rights

Them ah do the dutty work yet you shove aside

Yo me start to burn them turf day and night

Rastaman nah nurse no pharecies nor scribes

Shouldn't dis the warriors pon tha east side

Watch them ____ eh that shell like ah rice

Me nah like them profile neither them voice

Cut all them style them only lef you one choice

This is the hour where the wicked get smite

Pharaoh could ah train all him greatest knight

When the Bobo man pass through everything get right

Rasta them ah spite, say them blow us dynamite, oy


CHORUS

Burn Nya burn down Babylon place

inna them high and low place

wickedness me deh go chase

Burn Nya burn down Vatican place

them ah interrogate,

wha the marijuana keep space

Burn Nya burn down Babylon place

inna them high and low place

wickedness me ah go chase

Burn Nya burn down Babylon place

Whoa oh ey


From in the beginning me ah bun them yah fire

Pharaoh him ah galong like ah him clever

Them come tek the people out of Africa

Oh yes I and I still remember

Rastafari say, say free every prisoner

Me put on me stone, me put on me rifle,

me put on me dagger, put on me robe,

me put on me turban, me lace up me sandals

Lick down the judge me go lick down the jury

and  lick down the lawyer,

lick down the governor general

lick down the prime minister

lick down the politician

lick down the police 

lick down the soldier

So many years Black people dem dey ah

Babylon wash yuh schackles and chains asunder


CHORUS

Burn Nya burn down Babylon place

inna them high and low place

wickedness Black man ah chase

Burn Nya burn down Vatican place

them false fictitious and fake, hey

Burn Nya burn down Babylon place

inna them high and low place

wickedness me deh go chase

Cuz burn Nya burn down Babylon place

Yo dem challenge inna me face, now


When before Black people wake up wake up

Vatican concrete city break up break up

So long that they had take us

inna this western hemisphere and couldn't break us, oy

Them run the east them run the north them say them run the south

Say you can't test them anytime ah shoot out

Mister wicked rage, say him ah run the rout

Say him will buss up yuh head and him will __

Oy you no see say wicked, youths dem waa dead out

and ah leave the Black woman dem whe well waa spread out

Dem nah produce no life, well me see say that ah joke

Don't make them come near not even your house

don't make them touch your things neither...