Black Uhuru -Red

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1. Youth Of Eglington 2. Sponji Reggae 3. Sistren 4. Journey 5. Utterance 6. Puff She Puff 7. Rockstone 8. Carbine

 

 

 

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YOUTH OF EGLINGTON

 

(M. Rose)

 

The youths of Eglinton

Won't put down their Remington

The youth of Brixton

They bave their 45 Smith and

Wesson pistol pistol

The youth of Utica Avenue

They just can't keep cool

So much gun shot some

cripple some turn fool

They are responsible for a lot

of children

And they need food

And they want to go to school

 

I say the youth of Eglington

Won't put down their Remington

I say the youth of Kingston

Won't leave their Magnum

pistol pistol

A very thin line to start the crime

Who wlll be the first to

volunteer

You love you love your fuckery

Get up and get yourself together

You hear the words of Jah Jah

coming from the hill top of

Dabra Dabra

Keep you strength

 

The youth of Eglington

Won't put down their Remington

I say the youth of Brixton

They put down their 45 Smith

and Wesson pistol pistol

 

Stop and listen

They want you to fight the good fight

But save you strength

For strength of life

The youths in Africa

All a dem a thriller

 

I say the youth of Eglington

Won't put down their Remington

The youth of Kingston

Won't leave their Magnum

pistol pistol

Poor Jill she was a spill

she got hit by a stray shot

 

The youths of Eglington

Won't put down their Remington

The youths of Brixton

They put down their 45 Smith

and Wesson pistol pistol

 

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SPONJI REGGAE

(M. Rose)

 

You bum right here and you

bounce over there sponji reggae

I say you bum right here and

you bounce over there

sponji reggae

I say you rock right here and

you rock over there sponji reggae

I say you punch right here and you

punch over there sponji reggae

 

A keep trying very hard to succeed

I almost lost my reflex

My barefeet was burn

That I almost lost my nerves

My fingers are shaking as the

day start breaking

I could a never keep it no longer

I had to tell it to one another

 

Chorus:

 

You bum right here

 

Some say I am nuts zooky crazy

Want I to leave the music alone

They say go and look work

I and I are lazy

But I think for a while and

say to my self

It's a time for every style

 

Chorus:

 

I may not be a movie star

I don't drive a big fancy car

I can afford only a Winchester cigar

From the day I was born and

given life

I and I a actor genius name it

Genuine character

 

Chorus:

 

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SISTREN

(M. Rose and D. Simpson)

 

If you have a sistren an she

come from country town

Home training and manners

She never know

Grandfather say oh mammy

say forward gal a mountain side

Mek she go wash tuh

Mek she go wash tub

 

Don't mek she go to waste

Don't mek she go to waste

Don't let she stand and wait oh

Don't mek she face disgrace

Don't let she go to waste

Don't let she go to waste

 

If you have a sistren and she

come from woodland home

Irie spirit she has when she greets

you

It shows grandfather say

Oh mammy say forward gal a

mountain side dub her up a ital fall

Dub her up a ital fall

 

Chorus

 

In a earth I would like the blessing

to be on all the chlldren of Israel

For the fear of Jah is the

beginning of wisdom

The sistren qone natty dread

All a wear tall frok instead

 

Chorus

 

Cultural vibes are her saying

A piece of silver don't strike her eye

She say reality is so nice

So take care women

African ruby I mean that truly

Come mek we forward down

a river to go beat old clothes

 

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JOURNEY

(D. Simpson)

 

Trodding the other day

On journey so far away to make a

living to see what I could achieve

I saw city state

Places of all human races

They are standing in front of I and I

Working scientifical

advancement to corrupt the mind

Babylon in their little way

 

Thinking of all the benefits there of

I and I humble lion chant Mount Zion

I am at a pace

Why you scrabbing my face

Some must see they can earn

Cause I and I Black Uhuru

stand fine burn

 

Brimstone burn brimstone burn

 

Trodding the other day on a

journey so far away away

 

Trying to make a living to see

what I can achieve

For the benefits of my grief

I saw men worklng seientifical

advancement to corrupt the mind

Babylon is their little way

Brimstone burn brimstone burn

Everything is trial

Brimstone burn brimstone

 

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UTTERANCE

(M. Rose)

 

What a joy to hear the

utterance of a Rasta (Repeat)

 

Long long ago

They use to say

Rastafari going around

taking little children away

But now time is at hand

I and I know those

saying was wrong

And that Rasta let them

know their homeland

And seek their culture

 

What a joy to hear the

utterance from a Rasta (Repeat)

 

I and I was granted

To drink from the fountain of life

I God will make I hold tight

I and I knee will not

wabble I and I

a V.I.P international

And now they putting

Rasta on the air

Before that they used

live in fear

 

What a joy to hear the

utterance of a Rasta (Repeat)

 

There is a way that

seemeth right to man

And yet in Jah Jah sight it wrong

It's not what you do is

how you do it

It's not what you say

but how you say it

You going be shot with shit

Go down In It

 

What a joy to hear the

utterance from a Rasta (Repeat)

 

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PUFF SHE PUFF

(M. Rose)

 

Puff she puff no bother puff

pon Rasta

Tough she tough no bother

puff pon Rasta

Puff she puff

no bother puff pon Rasta

 

Makinq love on hungry belly

I couldn't cope too long

With my bare long hands

I am embarrassed most the time

But it's not no crime

Children crying day and night

can't find mummy

 

A puff she puff no bother

puff pon Rasta she puff she puff

She just a puff pon Rasta

 

She say rude

Tough she tough hard she hard

A no soft she soft

Puff she puff

She just a puff pon Rasta

Anough she nough you

kinna nough pon Rasta

 

Money I Can hardly find

And white scrawl a bite

Simple things are so serious

In these time

The things that you do and

upset some day and regret

 

Tough tough tough she tough

A puff she puff

No bothcr puff pon Rasta

 

Puffy puff

Claim she tough

She just a puff she just a

puff pon Rasta

 

Many a times when I check

my life style

A been a living in another

foot step of another man

I no man man a fallure

 

She just a puff

She just a puff pon Rasta

She puffy puff

She claims she tough she

just a Chuck

No bother chuck pon Rasta

 

Man find himself doing all

manner of evil

I and I a ion's

 

So no bother come gwaan

bout you tough

A nuff you nuff

 

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ROCKSTONE

(M. Rose and D. Simpson)

 

Throwing rockstone upon a

dumper truck

Throwing rockstone upon a

dumper truck

Men standing over I and I and

we are not wild

Forcing jack hammers

through the concrete wall

That's the only way a dread

can make a bread

Satta dread satta you time soon

come

 

Throwing rockstone upon a

dumper truck

Throwing rockstone upon a

dumper truck

 

I and I fore parents did

have all the riches

Now it's taken away

And dem work iniquity and a

burn bad lamp pon dem wanna

neda

Dem a burn bad lamp and

work iniquity wo oh

Everytime I work on this

truck mi tear off mi shirt

I trod it ital but duckie

stich his own up

We fling rockstone upon a

dumper truck

Throwing rockstone upon a

dumper truck

Throwing rockstone upon a

dumper truck

Packing up rockstone upon a

dumper truck

 

The Queen would like to know

I and I know that for sure

Cause we down yea

We are the slave

We are the slave

Digging digglng

Down a sandy gully

We do the holly gully

Enjoying plenty of collie

 

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CARBINE

(M. Rose)

 

Civilian warring among each other

Only to achieve their coffin

So I and I stay away in the big apple

And trod it with care though

its full of maggots

Cost of living reach the sky

And no ones knows why

It's just revolution time

So Cool off

Cool off the carbine a yard

Cool off cool off thc carbine a yard

 

Be attentive to my call of Jah

I remember days of long ago

These thinge used to poison

my people

I am willing

I am concerned

With the works of your own hand

Brings the activity of nature

The morning cause I and I to hear

The loving kindness of Jah

Everytime when I put my trust

in Jah never wrong so I say

Cool off

Cool off the carbine a yard

So cool off

Cool off

Don't go a funeral so cool off

can't tek the deddas

Cool off cool off the carblne a yard

 

It's a gunshot season

And we got overstanding

So it's best to qet down and reason

Stop trusting in the abundant

of your riches

All you speak of is evolution

It's mind blowinq without direction

And situation objection corruption

 

Cool off cool off

The carbine a yard

Cool off cool off

The carbine a yard

So I say cool off cool off

the carbine a yard

 

There is an understanding

To everything that is seen in

existence

So cool off cool off the carbine

 

 

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MUSICIANS

 

Drums & Syndrums y Sly Dunbar

Bass Gultar . Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare

Percussion . Sticky Thompson

Rhythm Guitar y Ranchie McLean & Mikey Chung

Piano . Robert Lyn, Keith Sterling & Robert Shakespeare

Lead Guitar y Mikey Chung, Dougie Bryan, Ranchie McLean & Barry Reynolds

 

Recorded at Channel One Studio,

Kingston. Jamaica and Compass

Point Studios, Nassau.

Sound Engineer Soldgie

Vocal Engineer y Maxie

Guitar overdubs Engineer - Kendall Stubbs

Mixed at Compass Point Studios, Nassau

By: Steven Stanley, Robert Shakespeare & Sly Dunbar

 

PRODUCED BY SLY DUNBAR

AND ROBERT SHAKESPEARE

 

Executive Producer Chris Blackwell

Photography . Jonnie Black

Cover Design y Denise & Bruno

Dress Design by Ruth McLeod tor

The Jabberwocky Womans Art

Collective

 

1981 Island Records Ltd.

 

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