Burnin’

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights.  Come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You would look for yours on earth
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights.  JAH!

Get up, stand up!    (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights!    (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up!    (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight!     (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up!    (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights!    (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up!    (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight!     (Yeah!)

We're sick and tired of all your ism-skism game -
Diamonds go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights!  (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

Oh, you better:
Get up, stand up!  (In the morning!  Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights!  (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up!  (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights!  (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!  ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!  ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!  ( ... )
Don't give up the fight!

Hear the children crying,
But I know they cry not in vain.
Now the times are changing;
Love has come to bloom again.

Smelling the air when spring comes by raindrops
Reminds us of youthful days.
But now it's not rain that water the cane crops,
But the sweat from man's brow
The substance from our spine.
We gotta keep on living, living on borrowed time
Hallelujah time!

Yes, you can hear the children singing: Hallelujah time!
As they go singing by and by: Hallelujah time!
Oh, "hallelujah" singing in the morning.
Hallelujah time!  Let them sing; don't let them cry.

Over rocks and mountains
The sheep are scattered all around.
Over hills and valleys,
They are everywhere to be found.
But though we bear our burdens now,
All afflictions got to end somehow:
From swinging the hammer, pulling the plough.

Why won't you let us be, to live in harmony?
We like to be free like birds in a tree.

Hallelujah time!  Yes, you can hear the children singing.
Hallelujah time!  Yes, as they go singing by and by.
Hallelujah time!  Oh "hallelujah" singing in the morning.
Let them sing; never let them cry.
Hallelujah time!  "Hallelujah" singin' in the morning.

(I shot the sheriff,
 But I did not shoot no deputy, oh no!  Oh!
 I shot the sheriff
 But I did not shoot no deputy. Ooh, oo-ooh.)

All around in my home town,
They trying to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the life of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say, yeah:

(I shot the sheriff,
 But I swear it was in selfdefence.)
I swear it was in selfdefence, yea-ea-eah!
It was I who shot the sheriff,
(And they say it is a) capital offence. (Oo-ooh)

Sheriff John Brown always hates me,
For what, I don't know
Every time I plant a seed,
He say, "Kill them before they grow"
He say, "Kill them before they grow", now.
And so, yeah - and so

I shot the sheriff.
But I did not shoot no deputy. (Oh no! Oh!)
It was I shot the sheriff,
But I (did not shoot no deputy)
I did not shoot no deputy. (Oo-ooh)
No-no-no-no-no!

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
Then all of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown,
He was aiming to shoot I down
So I shot, yes, I shot - shot him down and I say, yeah

By-by-by - I shot the sheriff,
Love, I did not shoot no deputy. (oh, no! Oh!)
It was I shot the sheriff,
But I did not shoot no deputy. (Oo-ooh)

Reflexes had the better of me
And what is to be must be
Every day the bucket goes to the well,
I say, one day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom will drop out.

And so - and so, read it!
(I shot the sheriff,
 But I did not shoot no deputy. Oh no, oh!
 I shot the sheriff,
 But I did not shoot no deputy. Oo-ooh.)

This morning I woke up in a curfew;
O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh!

How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have lost;
We must have really paid the cost.

(That's why we gonna be)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(One more thing)
Burnin' all pollution tonight;
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin' all illusion tonight.

Oh, stop them!

Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the Roots Man take a blow.
All them drugs gonna make you slow now;
It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!

Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(Who can stop the tears?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(We've been suffering these long, long-a years!)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(Will you say cheer?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(But where?)

Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the Roots Man take a blow.
I must say: all them - all them drugs gonna make you slow;
It's not the music of the ghetto.

We gonna be burning and a-looting tonight;
(To survive, yeah!)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(Save your baby lives)
Burning all pollution tonight;
(Pollution, yeah, yeah!)
Burning all illusion tonight
(Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!)

Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning all pollution tonight.

Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit
Feel them spirit.
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you.

Feel all right now
Feel all right now
Feel all right now
Good Lord, hear me
Good Lord, hear me.

I'm not boasting
I'm not boasting
I'm not boasting, yeah!
Feel like toasting
Feel like toasting
Simply 'cause

I'm gonna put it on
(In the morning)
I'm gonna put it on
(In the night)
I'm gonna put it on
(Anytime, anywhere)
Good Lord, help me
Good Lord, help me.

Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo
Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo
Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo
Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo.

No more crying
No more crying
No more crying.
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you.

And I'm gonna put it on
I'm gonna put it on
I'm gonna put it on.
Feel all right now
Feel all right now
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you
Lord, I thank you.
Feel all right now
Feel all right now.

Why boasteth thyself, O evil men
Playing smart and-a not being clever!
I said you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity (if a-so, a-so),
But the goodness of JAH - JAH
Idureth for Iver.

So if you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
To cut you down.

These are the words of my master
Keep on telling me: no weak out shall prosper.

Eh!  Whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it - fall in it;
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it (fall in it).

If you are the big tree,
Let me tell you that: we are the small axe
Sharpened ready - ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
To cut you down.

(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh; to cut you down;
 Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh; to cut you down).

These are the words of my master
Telling me that: no weak out shall prosper.

And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, uh! - bury in it!
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it, uh! (bury in it)

If you are the big, big tree,
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
To cut you down.

If you are the big, big tree,
Let me tell you that: we are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
To cut you down.

What your hands do,
It's your own eyes that've seen.
So won't you judge your actions
To make sure the results are clean?

It's your own conscience
That is gonna remind you
That it's your heart and nobody else's
That is gonna judge.

Be not selfish in your doings:
Pass it on.  (Pass it on, children)
Help your brothers (help them) in their needs
Pass it on.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain
Live for others, you will live again.

In the kingdom of JAH,
Man shall reign.
Pass it on
Pass it on
Pass it on
Pass it on.

What's in the darkness
Must be revealed to light.
We're not here to judge what's good from bad
But to do the things that are right.

On a hot, sunny day,
Follow the shadows for rescue.
But as the day grows old,
I know the sun is gonna find you.

Be not selfish in your doings
Pass it on.
Help your brothers in their needs
Pass it on.

Live for yourself, you will live in vain
Live for others, you will live again.

In the kingdom of JAH,
Man shall reign.
Pass it on
Pass it on
Pass it on
Pass it on.  (Pass it on)

Oh, oh. op-bo, bo, bo-bo-bo!
Oh, oh. op-bo, bo, bo-bo-bo!
Yes, me friend, me friend,
Them set me free again.
Yes, me friend, me friend,
Me deh 'pon street again.

The bars could not hold me;
Force could not control me now.
They try to keep me down,
But God put me around.

Yes, I've been accused,
Wrongly abused, now.
But through the powers of the Most-'Igh,
They've got to turn me loose.  Mm!

(Brrr) Don't try (brrr) to cold me up (brrr) on this (brrr) bridge
 now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion -
The 'ighest region.
(Brrr) If you bull-bucka,
Let me tell you that:
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror.

Yes, me friend, me good friend,
Them set me free again, mm.
Yes, me friend,
Them turn me loose again.

(Brrr) Don't try (brrr) to cold me up on (brrr) this (brrr) bridge now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion -
The 'ighest region.
(Brrr) If you bull-bucka,
Let me tell you:
I'm a duppy conqueror - hit it! (conqueror)

(Yes, me friend,) me friend, me friend, me friend,
We deh a street again.
Yes, me friend, me friend, me friend,
Dem set me free again.
Dem set me free again.

Don't try to show off
Fi make you friend dem laugh, what a la-la!
For I will cut you off
And I will take the last straw.
I'm cryin'!  Yes, me friend,
We deh a street again, yea-eah.
Yes, me friend, me friend, me friend,
(Dem set me free again.)  Oo-oo-ooh, yea-eah.  Mm-mm.
Bars could not hold me -

Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation.
There will never be - yeah! - no love at all
There will never be no love at all.

Got to put aside them segregation, yeah!
Got to put aside them organization
Got to put aside them denomination.
There will - there will never be no love at all
I mean there will never be no love at all.

Got to build our love (so build our love)
On one foundation  (on one foundation)
Got to build our love (come, let us build our love)
On one foundation (on one solid foundation)
Got to build our love
On one (on one foundation) foundation
Or there will never be a single drop of love
You won't have no ... .

Got to come together
We are birds of a feather
We got to come together
'Cause we are birds of a feather
Got to come together
'Cause we are birds of a feather
Or there will never be (Lord, have mercy!) no love at all -
There will never be - yeah, yeah! - no love at all.

We also got to realize we are one people, yeah!
Got to realize that we are one people, yeah!
We got to realize we are one people,
Or there will never be no love at all -
There will never, never, never be no love at all.

Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation
Got to build our love on one foundation ...

Hear the words of the Rastaman say:
"Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down;
 Babylon, you throne gone down."

Said I hear the words of the Iyaman say:
"Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down;
 Babylon, you throne gone down."
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And I hear the angel with the seven seals say:
"Babylon throne gone down, gone down;
 Babylon throne gone down."
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I say fly away home to Zion (fly away home);
I say fly away home to Zion (fly away home).
One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
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One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
One bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.
Say one bright morning when my work is over,
Man will fly away home.