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READY WHEN YOU READY

Cho.

Hey, mi ready when you ready fi go chant down

babylon, dutty system, Mi ready you ready fi go lick

down bbylon in a rhythm,

Mi ready when you ready fi go tear down babylon,

Mi ready when you ready fi go mash down babylon.

Them nah do it like how dem say dem plan,

Dem just a dash it out dey in a foreign land,

A hungry nation is a angry one,

And it is bound to cause a revolution,

Power struggle a bubble it a bubble,

And starvation is on the double,

The ghetto children don't seem to stand a chance

Instead of opportunity it's self reliance.

Cho.

Mi ready when you ready fi go tear down babylon,

dutty system, Mi ready when you ready fi go fling

down babylon in a rhtyhm,

Mi ready when you ready fi go chant down babylon,

Mi ready when you ready fi go lick down babylon.

The rise in prices is rising everytime,

And unemployment is making people turn to crime,

A bare promises and a bag a tricks,

While we kill each other over politics,

You want unity in a you community,

Tho yu don't belong to high society,

We hear of problems over the media,

About the blackman's struggle in a Africa.

Cho.

So miready when you ready fi chant down babylon,

Mi ready when you ready fi go tear down babylon,

Mi ready when you ready fi lick down babylon,

Mi ready when you ready fi go chant down babylon

Is it because of the book and pencil,

Why ou try to sidestep the treaty,

Is it because of the pen and paper,

Why you keep the chains on me,

Is it because of the book an pencil,

Why you try to avoid the treaty,

Is it because of the pen and paper,

Why you keep the chains on me.

If I had to fight for emancipation,

Then I shall resist for my liberation,

And with truth and right I shall win my liberty,

We shall unite to secure the victory,

Cudjoe and Nanny, their courage and their bravery,

Cuffy and Quashy, delivered their rage from slavery,

Marcus Garvey and His Imperial Majesty,

Luther King and Marley, voices the oppression

of humanity.

Cho.

So mi ready when you ready fi go chant down

babylon, dutty system, Mi ready when you ready fi

go tear down babylon in a rhythm,

Mi ready when you ready fi go lick down babylon,

Mi ready when you ready fi go mash down babylon,

The school graduates turn into loafters,

Educate children turn into beggars,

The underprivillege nah go have no privillege,

Mentally handicaps what a disadvantage.

Cho.

SONGS WRITTEN BY NEVILLE LIVINGSTON

PUBLISHED BY SOLOMONIC MUSIC 1987-88

PRODUCED, PERFORMED, ARRANGED AND DIRECTED BY BUNNY

WAILER FOR SOLOMONIC PRODUCTIONS °1987-1988

RECORDED AT: DYNAMICS SOUNDS RECORDING STUDIOS

ENGINEER: SYL MORRIS

MIXED AT: MIXING LAB STUDIOS KINGSTON, JA

MIXED BY: CARL PETERSON

MUSICIANS

Drums: Carlton Davis, Lincoln Scott & Sly Dunbar

Bass: Robbie Shakespeare, Errol Carter & Daniel Thompson

Rhythm Guitar: Erick Lamont, Earl 'Chinna' Smith

Lead Guitar: Dwight Pinkney & Cat Coore

Keyboards: 'Red Fox' Steart, Tony Asher & Keith Sterling

Horns: Barrington Bailey, Bobby Ellis, H. Bennet & Johnny Moore

Percussions: B. Wailer, Hugh 'Sticky' Thompson & Harry T. Powell

Lead Vocals: B. Wailer

Backing Vocals: "PSALMS" (vocal group), & B. Wailer