Sizzla - Trod Mount Zion

Intro:

Yow

Plead my cauase Jah Rastafari

(It guh so!)

And strive with those that strive with I

and fight against those that fight against I

tek up thy shield and bun

leff dem deh for the dead



Verse 1

They act as if they don't got no sense

and I know dem under false pretense

talk as if dem ah yuh closest friend

when dem ah yuh enemy

and come ah try rid yuh for rent

slandering and bad influence

scandal yuh name when dem cyaan tek yuh strength

hypocrite and traitor di whole a dem

and ku pon top a dat

a badmind full up dem heart and dem ah gwaan innocent

Rastafari is my shield and defence

so when tings bruck loose

hey, a bigger judgement

back-stabbers and vampires dem send

to suck di blood of di children



Chorus:

Burn up di wicked and trod ah Mount Zion

wicked and rugged and mi tough like lion

Burn up di wicked and trod ah Mount Zion

Babylon yuh riches cyaan sway wi Lion





Verse 2

Inna mi turban and robe

Rastafari know mi ready fi do road

Sizzla Kalonji dash weh di burden and load

go clean, come good

mi seh come and get yuh bread

Ahhh

gimme more nutten less

lead di people with righteousness, yow

Sizzla Kalonji bless

di Voice of Rastafari bring the cedars in the forest

love and share, don't you forget

no come fi draw di Rastafari

hey that's my men



Chorus



Verse 3

Sufferation deya

nutten good about black people dem nuh say, hey

free up di captive dem today

repatriation I ah seh

black people come da way yah, hmm

help mi keep di sabbath day

Rastafari nah ramp nor play

it must be love, nutten else cyaan stay yah

hey, read yuh Bible ghetto youth

and seh yuh prayer

Rastafari come fi lift di people higher



Chorus



Verse 1