By William Clarke
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Pack up your things children
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'Cause Zion is waiting
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Get yourselves together children
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'Cause Zion is waiting
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(Chorus)
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Ride on Ride on Jah children (yea)
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Ah keep on riding on
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Trod on trod on Jah children (yea)
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Ah keep on riding on
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(Tell them)
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What's sitting in the shadows must be revealed
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to light
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(No beg them)
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We won't beg, steal or borrow 'cause
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everything alright
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(They say)
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They say our situation is getting out of hand
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(I know)
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But I know they'll never understand dis ya
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Rasta man
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(Chorus)
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Every step Rasta take (if you're no careful)
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Babylon try too
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I don't know what to say the monkey won't do
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Guilty or no guilty Babylon you going to pay
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For what you did to my people Hear me Hear me
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When I soy
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(Chorus)
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I say you can't afford to stop now children
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You've got to keep on moving
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You can't afford to stop my children
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You've got to keep on grooving
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Today for you I say tomorrow for me
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Can't you see that the truth (yea)
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It is so plain to see
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You're living inna world of confusion
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Soon it's gonna fade away
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For whatever your works is
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Jah know you gonna get your pay
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(Chorus)
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And me no John Wayne
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But we riding on (riding on yea)
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And me no Tarzan
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But we singing on (Swing Swing Swing yea)
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And me no Superman
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But we flying Dread
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(Chorus)
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Ride On
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