Jah Defend the Music - Groundation

And in this time of redemption them say dig that garden

The food dem ripe, dig that garden

All day, with shovel and hoe

Jah defend the music 100, Jah defend the music 100

It’s a song I sing, with beauty as it’s aim

It will fly like a bird once grown, so don’t you turn it away

All who live by the gun yes, will die by the sword

Man to man if so unjust, they live their life

Why can’t they do right?

Some must be reborn

My song recall, a memory strong

It wasn’t your fault, I hope you know

And for this companion of flesh and blood

All I can offer is more wood for the fire

And if it should raise it up and caste them out

When we caste them out you know they were meant to go

The harvester Jah

The harvester Jah

The harvester of this rainbow tree, yeah

Jah harvester of this rainbow tree

Some way some how, I gotta prove it in the music

Until it consumes all the mighty world

Revealing all those cultural vows man have to break

So when Jah call us back to the garden

We’d all be there together once again

Home to see the light, home

With the threat of Judgement to come

Oh the beauty of Kingdom come

Keep the riddim riding Jah!

Without stopping to chat up in the middle of the road to boast

Welcoming friends and foes

Just like Marcus Garvey

Him gone, him gone, him gone to Washington Dc

Before the economic down swing

To speak to man’s soul

But no one listened when he spoke

So he put it all into the music

And it went far and wide, and wider still yes

Until it opened up heaven’s doors

With a riddim to beat Satan’s for sure

Lucifer speaks through silent vultures, while Jah, Jah, Jah

Jah defend the music 100, Jah defend the music 100

Slow rider, slew the dragon well

This music mission, to carry all Nations

To better-ness and one love creation yeah

You know it’s in your attitude

To stay upfull the whole day through

Nothing could reach him but music would

Sound system rocking through your neighborhood

What ya gonna do about that?