Never Run Dry

Regional this one is original

Coming to you from the voice of the ghetto

Dre Island, yeah

Well, I say equal rights and justice for all man to speak, yeah, yeah

So Babylon, your days are numbered

Well, well, hey

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Oh lord

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Hey, all the things dem a do and all the things dem a try

Years dem a fight, but still rasta survive, so what

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

'Cause you got so many people in different places, with different faces, of different races

Can't get away from the tricks and the trading, the lies and the hating, red hot fire, I be blazing

While politicians smile with their kids and their ladies

Then give thanks and praises for all of I slavings

Now most of the youths work hard for days and dem still can't find food to put into dem plate

Well ghetto youths them fed up tired fi suffer so much

Our low quality families said dem can't get no

Worst who no have outta luck is like we stuck the mud

Dem would a love fi see you in a you keep crash and mash up

Well, a riot ago broke when the cups them full up

Two grand fi your vote, damm enough is enough

We work hard so you never ago see we tun cruff

Ah, too much a me friend dem dead through you vicious

Well

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Oh, lord

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Hey, all the things dem a do and all the things dem a try

Years dem a fight, but still rasta survive, so what

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Well, dem no want you love to see the sunrise

Dem woulda want you fall like the night time

We survive through the odds so why the bad mind

A glory be unto Jah me doing damn fine

Mi granny said she love pudding, she no like pie

She said fi be a don and don't you be the shy type

So me go hard from inna me calabar ties

And any question they ask me reply why

Look how long ghetto youths dem be ballin'

Now politician man, whatcha gonna do

When thugs run in a your house with some tall things

And they no greet you with no howdy do, lord

We been fighting for a cause, king

So think twice before you talk to, hey

And we no want no not a bribing

And this is no BBC interview

Well then

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Oh, lord

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Hey

All the things dem a do and all the things dem a try

Years dem a fight but still rasta survive, so what

Bang your head, mama said, son no cry, 'cause your river will never run dry

Oh, yes red hills road mi seh never dry

Waterhouse, I say never dry

Tivoli garden, it never dry

Round ah, Jungle, I say never dry

Spanish town, I say never dry

Mobay flankers, I say never dry

Negril straight to Portland, I say never dry

All around the world it never dry

I say it never dry

Rastaman, I say he never dry

Winter James, tell them it never dry

James Winter, tell them it never dry

Rastaman, dem say he never dry

Rastafari, so we never dry

I say, Jah fountain flows from above

Rastafari so we never dry

Just like the river nile