Big Bad Sound

Oh lord
Oh lord

Tell the people uptown
And the one dem downtown
The general come round
String up your big bad sound
Natty never come down
Ah no me alone
Burning like a fire
The general come round

Like father like son the general ah pass through
Give me little space make me dolly past you
Me nuh ‘fraid fi come grab the mic and slew
‘Cah me well steam down like a ital stew
General you want so ah general command
First class deejay me well phenomenal
And me ram up any dance with the mic inna mi hand
But if ah real general Selassie I ah di onlu one
Haile Selassie I, conquering lion
Ah from the tribe of King Solomon
Reign and rule over Ethiopian
Reign the believing of the ark of covenant
More than the palace of Jacob and Abraham
So the lord God loveth holy mount Zion
From Queen of Sheba comes David second
Go find the Vatican and tell the people

Tell the people uptown
And the one dem downtown
The general come round
String up your big bad sound
Natty never come down
Ah no me alone
Burning like a fire
The general come round

The general come round
Come round, come round, come round
Nuh make me wait when mi come fi mi crown
The city hot like a Kingston town
Zion ah burn like a sun come down
Trumpet loud like ah Stone Love sound
Tongue confess, every knee bow down
Tell every king weh ah claim dem ah king fi leave di compound when dem buck up on me
Haffi make way fi Selassie pickney
Zion and the terrible they coming with me
Everything we do ah fi di king glory
Everywhere miwego Jah Jah deh pon di journey
When ah war time we sling ever ready
So by time you look we done everything already
Who slew the [not sure] then ah mi daddy
Come the general fi say dont move, ease

Tell the people uptown
And the one dem downtown
The general come round
String up your big bad sound
Natty never come down
Ah no me alone
Burning like a fire
The general come round

Mi and mi poppa like David and Jesse
Mi and mi daddy Solomon and Menelik
Mi got di bing inna mi right hand, river stone inna mi left
Philistine nuh come in but the natty never fret
Mi ever ready covenant mi never leff
Tell Goliath say ah riot when mi step
When mi dip and mi come and then mi cuff him then mi queff him
Him ah dizzy and ah stagger pon di ground then mi leff
Good lord, Jah know
General deh ya you aint gotta wait no more
Good lord, Jah know
General deh ya you aint gotta wait no more