Bob Marley -Babylon By Bus

	1. Positive Vibration 2. Punky Reggae Party 3. Exodus 4. Stir It Up 5. Rat Race 6. Concrete Jungle 7. Kinky Reggae 8. Lively Up Yourself 9. Rebel Music 10. War 11. Is This Love 12. The Heathen 13.Jammin'

Back to Bob Marley Index

 

 

 

 

 

POSITIVE VIBRATION

 

Live if you want to live

Rastaman vibration yeah! Positive

I and I vibration yeah! Positive

I a man iration yeah! Irie ites

Positive vibration yeah! Positive

 

If you get down and quarrel everyday

You're saying prayers to the devil, I say

Why not help one another on the way

Make it much easier

 

Say you just can't live that negative way

You know what I mean

Make way for the positive day

Cause it's a new day

New time, new feeling yeah!

Say it's a new sign

Oh what a new day

 

Picking up,

Are you picking up now

JAH love, JAH love protect us (repeat)

 

Rastaman vibration yeah! Positive

I and I vibration yeah! Positive

I a man iration yeah! Irie ites

Vibes, got to have a good vibe

Picking up,

Are you picking up now (repeat)

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

 

 

PUNKY REGGAE PARTY

 

This one's not finished, sorry

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

 

EXODUS

 

Exodus, movement of JAH people

Exodus, movement of JAH people

 

men and people will fight ya down

when ya see JAH light

let me tell you if you're not wrong

everything is allright

walk, through the roads of creation

we're the generation

who trod through great tribulation

 

Exodus, movement of JAH people

Exodus, movement of JAH people

 

open your eyes and look within

are you satisfied with the life

you're living

we know where we're going

we know where we're from

we're leaving babylon

into our father's land

 

Exodus, movement of JAH people

Exodus, movement of JAH people

 

Exodus, Exodus, Exodus

Exodus, Exodus, Exodus

 

movement of JAH people

movement of JAH people

movement of JAH people

movement of JAH people

 

move, move, move, movement of JAH people

 

JAH come to breakdown downpression, rule equality

wipe away transgression

and set the captives free

 

Exodus, movement of JAH people

Exodus, movement of JAH people

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

STIR IT UP

 

Stir it up little darlin' stir it up

Oh yeah, yeah

Stir it up little darlin'

 

It's been a long long time

Since I had you on my mind

Now you are here it's so very clear

There's so much we could do

Just me and you

Come on and stir it up little darlin'

 

I'll push the wood, light the fire

I'll satisfy your hearts desire

I will stir it every, every minute

All you have to do, girl,

Is keep it in it

 

Quench me when I'm thirsty

Cool me down baby when I'm hot

Your recipe is so tasty

When you show and stir your pot

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

RAT RACE

 

Ah! Ya too rude

Oh what a rat race

Oh what a rat race

This is the rat race

 

Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacket

Oh what a rat race, rat race

 

Some a gorgan, some a hooligan, some a guine-gog

In this rat race, yeah!

Rat race

I'm singing

When the cats away

The mice will play

Political voilence fill ya city

Yea-ah!

Don't involve Rasta in your say say

Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.

Rat race, rat race, rat race

When you think is peace and safety

A sudden destruction

Collective security for surety

Yeah!

 

Don't forget your history

Know your destiny

In the abundance of water

The fool is thirsty

Rat race, rat race, rat race

 

Oh it's a disgrace to see the

Human-race in a rat race, rat race

You got the horse race

You got the dog race

You got the human-race

But this is a rat race, rat race

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

CONCRETE JUNGLE

 

No sun will shine in my day today

The hich yellow moon won't come out to play

I said darkness has covered my light

And the stage my day into night

Where is the love to be found

Won't someone tell me

Cause life must be somewhere to be found

Instead of concrete jungle

Where the living is harder

 

Concrete jungle

Man you got to do your best

No chains around my feet

But I'm not free

I know I am bound here in captivity

yeh-I've never known the happiness

I've never known what sweet caress is

Still-I'll be always laughing like a clown

Won't somebody help me 'cause

I've got to pick myself from off the ground

In this ya concrete jungle

I said what do you got for me now

Concrete jungle ah won't you let me be now

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

KINKY REGGAE

 

I went downtown

I saw miss brown

She had brown sugar

All over her booga-wooga

 

I think I might join the fun

But I had to hit and run

See I just can't settle down

In a kinky part of town

 

Ride on

Don't you know I've got to oh baby ride on,

See I just can't settle down

Oh I'm a leaving town

 

Kinky reggae take me away

Kinky reggae, kinky reggae, kinky reggae now,

Kinky ride on, ride on baby

 

I went down to picadilly circus

Down there I saw marcus

He had a candy bar

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

LIVELY UP YOURSELF

 

You're gonna lively up yourself

And don't be no drag,

You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag

You lively up yourself and don't say no

You're gonna lively up yourself cause I said so

 

(Hear what you gonna do)

You rock so you rock so like you never did before

You dip so you dip so, dip thru my door

You come so you come so oh yeah

You skank so you skank so be alive today

 

You're gonna lively up yourself and don't say no

You lively up yourself big daddy says so

You lively up yourself and don't be no drag

You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag

 

What you got that I don't know

I'm a trying to wonder why you act so

(Hey, do you hear what the man seh?)

Lively up your woman in the morning time you'all

Keep a lively up your woman when the evening come

And take her take ya.

 

You rock so you rock so you dip so you dip so

You skank so you skank so and don't be no drag

You come so you come so for reggae is another bag.

 

Get what you got in that bag

What have you got in the other bag

You got hanging there?

What you say you got?

I don't believe you!

 

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

REBEL MUSIC (3 O'CLOCK ROADBLOCK)

 

I, rebel music

I, rebel music

Why can't we roam this open country

Oh why can't we be what we want to be

We want to be free

 

3 o'clock - roadblock, curfew

And I've got to throw away

Yes I've got to throw away

Yes I've got to throw away

My little herb stalk

 

I, rebel music

I, rebel music

 

Take my soul and suss me out

Check my life if I am in doubt

3 o'clock - roadblock

And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no

(What you say down there)

Ain't got no birth certificate on me now

 

I, rebel music

I, rebel music

Take my soul and suss me out

Check my life if I am in doubt

3 o'clock - roadblock

And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no

(What you say down there)

Ain't got no birth certificate on me now.

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

 

WAR

 

What life has taught me

I would like to share with

Those who want to learn...

 

Until the philosophy which hold one race

Superior and another inferior

Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned

Everywhere is war, me say war

 

That until there are no longer first class

And second class citizens of any nation

Until the colour of a man's skin

Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes

Me say war

 

That until the basic human rights are equally

Guaranteed to all, without regard to race

Dis a war

 

That until that day

The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship

Rule of international morality

Will remain in but a fleeting illusion

To be persued, but never attained

Now everywhere is war, war

 

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes

that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,

South Africa sub-human bondage

Have been toppled, utterly destroyed

Well, everywhere is war, me say war

 

War in the east, war in the west

War up north, war down south

War, war, rumours of war

 

And until that day, the African continent

Will not know peace, we Africans will fight

We find it necessary and we know we shall win

As we are confident in the victory

 

Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil

Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

IS THIS LOVE

 

I wanna love you, and treat you right

I wanna love you, every day and every night

We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter, of my single bed

We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

 

Is this love, is this love, is this love

Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)

I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now

I got to know, got to know, got to know now

 

I'm willing and able

So I throw my cards on your table

I wanna love you and treat you right

 

I wanna love you, every day and every night

We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter, of my single bed

We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

 

Is this love, is this love, is this love

Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)

Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes I know now (repeat)

 

I'm willing and able

So I throw my cards on your table

See I wanna love you, I wanna love and treat

You right, I wanna love you, every day and every night

We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter, of my single bed

We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

THE HEATHEN

 

Rise up fallen fighters

Rise and take your stance again.

'Cause he who fight and run away

Live to fight another day.

 

Chorus:

 

As a man sow, shall he reap

And I know that talk is cheap.

So the hotter the battle

Is the sweeter the victory.

 

Rise up freedom fighters

Rise and take your stance again.

'Cause he who fight and run away

Live to fight another day.

 

Chorus

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index

 

 

 

 

JAMMIN'

 

We're jamming

I wanna jam it with you,

We're jamming, jamming

And I hope you like jamming too

 

Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow

I and I will see you through,

'Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice

Jamming till the jam is through.

 

We're jamming

To think that jamming was a thing of the past,

We're jamming, jamming

And I hope this jam is gonna last

 

No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow

Neither can be bought or sold.

We all defend the right, JAH JAH children must unite

Your life is worth much more than gold.

 

We're jamming, jamming

We're jamming in the name of the Lord

We're jamming, jamming

We're jamming right straight from JAH

 

Holy mount Zion

Holy mount Zion

JAH sitteth in Mount Zion

And rules all Creation

 

Yeah, we're jamming, jamming

I wanna jam it with you

We're jamming, jamming

I'm jammed, I hope you're jamming too

 

Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide

Too Keep you satisfied.

True love that now exist is the love I can't resist

So jam by my side...

 

Back to Babylon By Bus Index