And I say Dread and Terrible pon dem Good god of grace, well I have his mercy And me say old slave driver Time is catching up on you Old slave driver I know your sins dem a haunt you
Carry we go home, Carry we go home And bring we round a east Cause man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Carry we go home An mek we settle and seize Caw man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land
Lord America a capture land Di whole a Jamaica a capture land A long time dem wah trick the rasta man Like dem nuh know say that man a real African Yuh tink me nuh memba King Ferdinand And teifing Columbus have a Golden plan Dem make a wrong turn and end up in the Caribbean One rass genocide kill nuff indian Lord, Fi turn paradise in a plantation And bring cross one ship load a African Now here comes the tiefing Queen from England No she Cromwell and Henry Morgan Century pon top a century full a sufferation And after four hundred year mi see no reparation And now dem wah fi kill we wid taxation But a beg you please take me to the mother land
Carry we go home, Carry we go home And bring we round a east Cause man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Carry we go home An mek we settle and seize Caw man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land
Watch dem pon di top a di hill A look inna dem plate how it proper, all it fill Because down town have shotta fi kill Dem tell the tourist say fi stop a Negril So come mek we start a new chapter We nah stay pon di land weh dem capture An' me say Africa fi all true rasta A so, go tell di unscrupulous factors say
Carry we go home, Carry we go home And bring we round a east Cause man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land Carry we go home An mek we settle and seize Caw man a rasta man And rasta nuh live pon no capture land
Cherry Garden, a capture land Me tell you Shortwood, say dat a capture land Los Angeles, dat a capture land And New York City, dat a capture land East some a di place weh you wah go live sweet A teifing land there's no title fi it And some a these place weh you wah go live nice A tief dem tief it in the name of Christ In Spanish Town, dat a capture land The whole a Kingston, dat a capture land Remember Portland, dat a capture land And all down a Trinidad, dat a Capture land Barbados, say dat a capture land Tell dem Bermuda, dat a Capture land And tell Columbia, say dat a Capture land All round a Cuba, say dat a Capture land