Mash Dem Down

Ah, just like in the older days

Chop off the pagan head and let it roll away

Listen to what I got to say

Praise the King every day

Come, Mek, we go mash dem down, nah, lose

All dem ah wrinch and ah frown

Stumble blocks will have to move

Come, we go mash dem down cyah lose

Ah, deal wit dem ras

Because, ah, prove dem come, ah, prove

Me ah mash dem down nah lose

All dem ah wrinch and ah frown

Stumble blocks will have to move

Come we go mash dem down nah lose

Kalonji come fi mash dem down nah lose

Listen up, little children

I say to honor your mother and your father

Tell you again I say to love you one another

Praise Selassie, I crown, inna this, ah, baba

Second, ah, November 1930, Jah, Jah, Jah, Jah, java

Ey pon the wicked mi dash the hotta lava

Big up the ghetto girl, ah Kingston and Balaclava

Mama use to give we dumplin', Mek, out, ah, casava

Yo, you got the riches you must share what you have, ah

Farmer plat the food and stop the people dem from starve, ah

Yo, Jah, lead us with his rod and with his staff, ah

All pagan mi know dem must get cut off

Babylon your breath get shut off

Come, Mek, we go mash dem down nah lose

All dem, ah, wrinch and, ah, frown

Stumble block will have to move

Come we go mash dem down nah lose

Find out say, ah, prove dem ah prove

Wicked people we, ah, go mash dem down nah lose

Conquering lion obstacles we come, ah, move

Come, we go mash dem down, nah lose

Babylon, we mash dem down, ah

Burn them plan and them plot and them strategies

Burn them up them computers and dem cartridges

Lion inna the jungle we nah bow fi dem categories

Dis Selassie, I dem end up inna worries

Mash dem down nah lose, deal with dem ras

Because, ah, prove dem come, ah, prove

Come, Mek,we go mash dem down nah lose

Babylon I mash dem down, oh

Speak the truth and know your roots that's reality

Yo, just listen to my tune it full of quality

Children, Emperor Selassi, I is the almighty more morality

No more, no more will black people dem stifle

When dem, ah, shot the people dem, ah, kill dem with poison

Cyar tell me nuttin', me say the Conquerin' lion inna the Bible

Babylon mi come fi mash dem down nah lose

All dem, ah, wrinch and, ah, frown

Stumble block will have to move

Come, we go mash dem down nah lose, deal with dem ras

Because, ah, prove dem come, ah, prove

Come, Mek, we go mash dem down nah lose

All dem, ah, wrinch and, ah, frown

Stumble block will have to move

Come, we go mash dem down nah lose

Babylon we mash dem down

Cyar, dis the Rastaman because him on his foundation rigid

Love and righteousness is with the youths govern the village

All dem a gwan like dem bad and dem wicked

King Selassie govern the earth, so don't be stupid

Come, we go mash dem down nah lose

All dem a wrinch and a frown righteousness we choose

Come, we go mash dem down we cyar lose, prove dem ah prove

Ghetto youths want clothes and shoes and food

Mash dem down nah lose

Hey Babylon, I tell you that I mash dem down, ey

Little children, I say to honor your mother and your father

Tell dem, again tell dem, again love you one another

Praise Selassie, I him crown inna this ah baba

Second, ah, November 1930, Jah, Jah, java

Mama give dem dumplin', Mek, out, ah, casava

Big up the ghetto girl ah Africa and Balaclava

Wow farmer plat the food and stop the people dem from starve, ah

Yo you got the riches you must share what you have, ah