Babylon Homework - Sizzla Kalonji

Intro:

Me just wanna say hail to Haile Selassie

His own devine majesty

Emperor Haile Selassie I the first…

Babylon you see, when those youths come about

You know it’s just redder fire

Yeh man we send enough stories to Babylon

Prime Minister give us repatriation

Remember this

Chorus:

Nothing inna Babylon nah work

Watch the inequity have to get up and splurt

Not even a wicked man can serve

Rome catch a fire cause deh Vatican thirst

Nothing inna Babylon caan work

Things get lock off and them a dead fi pure thirst

Not even a wicked man can serve

Yow, desolation to the earth

Verse 1:

Well nuh bother tell me bout mi nuh fi vanky

Babylon gu hush up your mouth you’re too cranky

John Pope mi no know, no uncle nor aunty

Everything fi Babylon Sizzla deh vanky

Well from you rude mamma sey she deh go spanky

Brain them a use bout a Christ ride the donkey

Who them a fool bout sey black man a monkey

Black man, black woman a the first monarchy

Babylon dry, them a beg Rasta dampy

Weed and a cry words of I them never want it African soil fertile ligh high sensi

Yow, well Babylon them listen calamity

Yuh city

Chorus

Verse 2:

So mi go hail Emperor Selassie I him a the first

This a one a Babylone home work

Protect the ghetto child, nuh badder move too fancy

From them a cry then how wi fi like, eh You think a now Babylon them a spite we Hand me the matches make Sizzla go light, eh Black people so much them nuh got no capacity

Try get up, go tell PJ a prophecy

Babylon a cover Queen Elizabeth nasty, Babylon presumptuous

What an audacity

I nuh come yah so fi sing no Babylon story

I come fi turn the shame into glory

Old Pharaoh, me sey that you nuh know me Remember that a King Solomon grow we Chorus

Verse 3:

A judgement inna Babylon, them thirst

Yow, a judgement with a… yow !

See it from afar, sey the whole a them crazy

When a black people time

Them think a no blacka days, eh Nothing?

Well Babylon not could never strike me Emperor Selassie I is the Almighty

From you see me chalice

Well me nah go pass, eh Babylon, a malice, a just through them greedy

Bun weed

I come fi weed, eh Yow, ah life black people needy

Nuh watch, eh Chorus