Blackheart Man

Take care the Blackheart Man, children

I say, don't go near him

Take care the Blackheart Man, children

For even lions fear him

Take care the Blackheart Man, little children

I say, don't go near him

Take care the Blackheart Man, children

For even lions fear him

Growing in a neighborhood for such a long time

That is filled with fear

I can't go here, can't go there

And I ain't supposed to go anywhere

Anywhere at all

When I asked my mom, if she could let me go, let me go

Go out and play like little children do

She said be careful of the stranger

Giving candies to children

And then take them away

He lives in the gullies of the city

The Blackheart Man, no

The Blackheart Man

Even in the lonely parts of the country

You find the Blackheart Man, yeah, Blackheart Man

He ain't got no friend, no home, no family

He's the Blackheart Man, yeah, that's the Blackheart Man

He is famed to live just like the gypsy

He's the Blackheart Man, yeah

Growing and learning and gathering

For myself a little more experience jumping over the fence

Curiosity has brought me, yes, it's brought me

A little common sense, yeah

Trodding the road of life, I've come to this one conclusion

That everything is equal under the sun

All that is created by Jah mighty hand, yeah

And He said, "Knock and it shall be opened"

Seek and ye shall find that

Wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of time

Knock and it shall be open

Seek and ye shall find

Wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of time

Now I trod the same road of afflictions

Just like the Blackheart Man

Just like the Blackheart Man

Getting my share of humiliation, just like the Blackheart Man, no

The Blackheart Man

You'll find me even in the prison of the dungeons

Just like the Blackheart Man did

The Blackheart Man

I even get blamed without a reason

Just like the Blackheart Man

Just like the Blackheart Man, yeah

No cross, no crown, no sorrow, no laughter

Trail and crosses in a way

But the hotter the battle is the sweeter Jah-Jah victory

Oh, please

Ancient children used to say

If you want, but you know he's got to run, run, run

How could the world go free

And let Jah bear the cross alone?

Them that drink up the old wine, hath no place for the new

For the new and the stones that are head of the corner

Are the same ones that the builders refused

Hear me when I say, now

It's the Blackheart Man, children

Who've become the wonder of the city

It's the Blackheart Man, children