Flag Flown High - Cocoa Tea, Shabba Ranks

So was it in the beginning

Ni ni ni ni ning

And so shall it be in the end

Lord woy, na na na na na

In the beginning God created everything

Jah, Rastafari

And everything was created in Africa!

Lord woy, na na na na na

Repatriate black man

Jah, Rastafari

Repatriation!

Na nai, na na na na na

Africa!

We coming home we coming home

Holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you (never refuse the black one)

Holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you (every black a' infant to the mother

land)

I face a lot of trials and tribulation

But through all of that I man still stand strong (stand up strong stand up

strong)

Giving thanks and praise to the almighty One

And looking forward to reach Mount Zion

And I man say Zion I’m coming home to you (mama Africa we cry)

Holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you

And I tell every black man

Africa is a flag flowing high inna mi head and inna mi heart

Like the father going to Britain carrying the cross

Flag flow high inna mi head and inna mi heart

Africa di whole a' me it is not half

That’s why I say Zion I’m coming home to you (unu better head back home)

Teach the yutes dem right but nuh teach them wrong (never, never)

Jah call upon the yutes 'cause di yutes are strong (have to be strong)

Look to Africa dat a' fi yuh mama land

And down a' Africa a' where yuh find Mount Zion

And I man say Zion I’m coming home to you

Say holy Mount Zion I’m coming home to you

Africa di motherland

Africa nuh refuse no black man

Every black man deal wid repatriation

But you nuh listen

Nuh watch di

express man created condition

Yuh nuh no say Africa a' where I come from

Is there I come from and is there I belong

So I’m callin' all black man

Redemption song unu better sing it everyone

It inna mi head it inna mi heart

Mi can’t stop that

It tickle fi mi brain and it pressure fi mi heart

Mi tell mi history teacher say she

'cause Africa is lifeline, di rod and di staff

Oh mama Africa!

I man say Zion I’m coming home to you

The Bingi man him say Zion

I’m coming home to you

They said I don’t have no rights inna Babylon

Because I don’t know how the West was won

Neither I can’t change their plan

The West is controlled by the Ku Klux Klan

Rastaman, Zion, I’m coming home to you (mount Zion I, haffi I and I)

Rasta say Zion, I’m coming home to you (one more time)

Holy Mount Zion, I’m coming home to you (I'm going home to you)

Africa is a flag flowing high inna mi head and inna mi heart

Like di father going through tribulation carrying the cross

Flag flowing high inna mi head and inna mi heart

Africa di whole a me it’s just not half

I say so many rivers I’ve crossed

I know mi cross because mi care 'bout mi past…

KETTE DRUM RIDDIM — 1995