Don't Wake The Lion

Yes Jah!

Oh yes yaad drive band

Oh yeah, oh yeah (grrrr)

Lion a sleep don’t you wake him up

Oh oh yeah

Fire in the street and its blazing up

Oh oh

An mi seh when Jah Jah speak then the place erupt

Oh heh

So mi seh lion a sleep so don’t you wake him up

Well in the beginning there was the word

And from the word every living thing occur

An mi seh... man mek inna Jah Jah likeness to be one with nature

Not beside it

Head a get big, while brain a get small

If yuh really whaa fi live you will never have nuh wants

Things look so easy but yuh still a find fault

A did fi sugar but yuh buck up pon salt yes, oh yeah

So mi seh Lion a sleep don’t you wake him up

Oh no oh no ooo

Fire in the street and its blazing up

Ohhh yeah

And mi seh well cant you see that the way is love

Oh love so ooo

lion a sleep, don’t you wake him up

Oh oh yeah

An mi she, the humble ones be looking out

While the sly ones running off their crooked mouth

Mi whaa fi know, couldn’t the king them a provoke

There is no question bout whose the head of the house… Tafari!

All nation have to confess to him and I nawh fi tell whats the wages of sin

Cus each man have his own day of reconning, so gwaan disturb I an see a whe it bring (grrrr)

Lion a sleep don’t you wake him up

Oh oh yeah

Fire in the street and its blazing up

Oh oh yeah

When Jah Jah speak then the place erupt

Oh oh

So mi seh... lion a sleep so don’t you wake him up

Oh yeah

An mi seh...

Cyaah stop the lion roar yeah

Try nuh mek the lion roar yeah

I know dem... cyaah stop the lion roar yeah

Try nuh mek di lion roar yeah

Cus it will transmit to all creatures in the forest... oooo

From the nearest of kins unto the furthest oh oh

Burning fire like a furnace oooo

Burning out all that disturbance... oooo

So mi seh... lion a sleep don’t you wake him up

Oh oh oh

Fire in the street and its blazing up

Oh oh

Well cant you see that the way is love

Oh oh

 So... lion a sleep so don’t you wake him up

Chu chu chu chu nuh wake him

Chu chu chu chu nuh wake him

Chu chu chu chu nuh wake him

Chu chu chu chu nuh wake him