Brace a Boy

Don't deal wid tribalist and malice

Caz you won't be able to get di chalice in di palace

Like Mistah Wallace (No) Alright

Missa Wallace you know

Brace is a bwoy, I tell yuh

An a dat yuh fi know, look at dat

Brace is a bwoy, tell yuh

An a dat yuh fi know

Got to keep me so

Keep a walking an sing, hey

Keep a walking an sing

Come on down an do your ting, tell yuh

An if a it a Ethiopia, Zion

An if a dis a dis a barber, alright

An if a half a Africa, tell yuh

Now dats the place we want to go, say

Forward I man forward a yaad yuh know

Cud a tell you bout di sum'n wah call di tribalist

We got to keep a rub it an a scrubbing it

Put it weh it deh, hey

Scrub it baby, mi beg yuh

Still I wud a never come bail yuh

Baby all I got to do is tell yuh

About di tribalist, di zang-gu-zim

Come lick up di chalice, hey

An dash weh yuh malice, beg yuh

For no tribalist cannot stand dis yah judgeman yuh know

All tribalist got to run away

As I will tell yuh bout the sound

Now call di tribalist as I will beg yuh

Brace is a bwoy

An a dat yuh fi know, heh

An a dat yuh fi know, tell yuh

Tell yuh bout di sum'n weh call a

Brace is a bwoy, alright

An a dat yuh fi know, oh yeah

Got to skank it one time, uh-uh

We got to come an skank it two time, oh yeah

Tell yuh

An dat I woulda never come, damn right

I would never, never, never, oh no

Never, never, never, that's what they say

Skabba-dabba-ding-dong-ding, oh yeah

Tell yuh

How di sound will lead di way, dung deh

See they got to come on down wid me, braces

An me no matter what they a guh say

Dat a malice, Zion!

Holy Mount Zion I would say

Jah dread, Jah dreadda dan dread