One Drop - Gilberto Gil, I-Three

Feel it in the one drop

And we’ll still find time to rap

We’re making the one stop

The generation gap

So feel this drum beat

As it beats within

Playing a rhythm

Resisting against the system

Ooh-we I know JAH’d never let us down

Pull your rights from wrong

I know JAH’d never let us down

Oh no!

oh no!

oh no!

I mean it, when I analyse the stench

To me, it makes a lot of sense

How the Dreadlock

Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier

And he was taken

From Africa, brought to America

Fighting on arrival

Fighting for survival

They made the world so hard

Everyday we got to keep on fighting

They made the world so hard

Everyday people are dying

From hunger and starvation

Lamentation

But read it in Revelation

You’ll find your redemption

And then you give us

The the teaching of His Majesty

For we no want no devil philosophy

Give us the teaching of His Majesty

For we no want no devil philosophy

Feel it on the one drop

And we still find time to rap

We’re making the one stop

And we fill in the gap

So fell this drum beat

As it beats within, playing a rhythm

Fighting against ism and skism

I know JAH’d never let us down

Pull your rights from wrong

I know JAH’d never let us down

Oh no!

oh no!

oh no!