Yo yo you you
Greeting to the listener

Haile the Iley one of Iration
Praise to Haile Selassie, king of Rastafarianism

This is I livication
This is my dedication

To dupe to don, to group to gang
To deceive, to cheat, to form a gang

No bad man live long
Violent people have a short lifespan

Listen to the bobo song
Listen to the Rastafarian message

It's Armageddon or revolution, but we got to find the solution
The world is in crisis, and we need to find a solution

You nuh hear the bobo tell you say
You haven't been listening to the Rastafarian message

A who shoot first a no who draw
Whoever pulls the trigger first is not necessarily the aggressor

Caan escape from the long arms of the law
The law will catch up to you eventually

Say you living fi yu life too raw
You are living your life too dangerously

You a murder whey live a bruk law
You are a murderer who lives outside of the law

Me tell you Haile Selassie I you say you nah
I tell you to follow Haile Selassie, but you refuse

Bob Marley shot the sheriff and mi go shot the deputy
Bob Marley stood up against the authorities, and I will do the same

Every bad man mi say you life in a jeopardy
Violent people are putting their lives in danger

Gunman no live long look out fi di cemetery
Gunmen have a short lifespan and should be wary of the cemetery

Fi di new millennium the twenty first century
In the new millennium, in the 21st century

If you blood thirsty mi have love fi quench it
If you have a thirst for blood, I will try to satisfy it with love

Put dem up front row, a back bench mi bench it
Put violent people in the front row, while I sit at the back

Waan free waterway, so no bother trench it
We want clean and free waterways, so don't pollute them

Hey, belly empty so how gun so plenty
When people are hungry, why are there so many guns around?

Mama say leggo badness you can't
Mother advises to let go of violence, you can't continue with it

Well the woman you rape last night a smaddy mother
The woman you raped last night is someone's mother

The man you shot last night a smaddy father
The man you shot last night is someone's father

Dem things deh it caan right we chant fi better
Things like that are unacceptable, and we should chant for a better way

Me know you a no maker so how you come a taker
I know you didn't make your own life, so why are you taking others' lives?

We a di role model whey di youth dem a follow
We are the role models that the youth are following

Me no waan dem think a pure killer come from the gutter
I don't want them to think that killers come from the streets

A sake a you mama deh walk and beg
It's because of you that your mother has to beg

Hear say you wanted live or dead
I've heard that you are wanted for alive or dead

Can't fi get the baby pain although you running the place red
Your power doesn't make the pain of innocent people go away

People witness when you tek man out a dem bed
People witness when you take someone out of their bed

Blow blow and lick shot in a head
Killing people with shots to the head

Never know informer would a mek news spread
I didn't know that snitching would make the news spread

Caan escape now you surrounded by Feds
You can't escape anymore because you're surrounded by the authorities

Hang up badness mama did tell you say
Put away your evil tendencies, as your mother told you to

Rastafari you fi praaise instead
You should praise Rastafarianism instead