Dem dread seh

Dem dread seh

Dem dread seh

Dem dread seh

No matter how you bad I man badder than you

No matter how you dread I man dreader than you

No matter how you hard I man harder than you

No matter how you raw

I more-weak heart back way so



A bad man no want go back Into captivity

A bad man no want go back to slavery

Uprising from the claws of the wicked



Two bulls can't reign in one pen

Two lions can't roar in a small den

Two scorpions don't sting at the same spot

Two guns can't fire the same bullet shot so



Move right out now

Move right out now

Move right out now

Move right out now



Two kings don't wear the same crown

Two beauties don't have the same gown on

Tomorrow Is too late to leave town

If you're still here at noon,

There'll be one big, big, big showdown so



Uprising, uprising

Uprising, uprising



I give you tlil noon to go

On your way to survival,where

Your heart will beat more fonder

With life

And breath still enters your body



Repeat verse one



If you still coming me nah run

If you still coming, me ah go, drop you

If you still coming me nah run

So better stop running before I, break you

So run and hide before I, find you

Woe betide if I catch up on you

If you still coming I box you down

If you still coming I clart you down



Long time we deh under backraw...



Four hundred years (many, many years)



Slavery days...

Slavery days...

Slavery days...



Oh you've been bought

Oh you've been sold

Oh cast over me

Got strung up for nothing at all

Strange fruit...