MUSIC
Lyrics by Gavin Djata Smith
January 2007
on the Natty Rub-a-Dub Riddim
Cornel Campbell – Clement Dodd / JAMREC BMI 1971 Previously released as the B-side of Cornel Campbell’s “Natty Don’t Go” single on the Downbeat Records Label
For so many years
Mothers and Sons in tears
And oh so many nights
Fathers telling sons
Give up your rights (no, no, no way!)
But no, no no more
It’s time to shut the door
It’s time for young bredrin to fret no more
It’s time
It’s time to recognize
This is an abuse of our rights
This Conscription
Conviction
Got me on a mission
They can’t stop we now
We change the babylon tradition
They can’t stop we now
We recruiting the conscripted
They can’t stop we now
No way!
I’m a BAD man
I stand up to the law of the land
You want me, you come and get me
Bring your whole regiment
I’m not afraid, I’m not scared
Lock me up if you want
I know god’s got my back
He’ll prove me right in the end!
They take me from my work,
My home, and my family
Terrorize me like I’m the enemy
Act like I don’t help my community
You Judge me falsely but you don’t even know me
Force me to take an oath I find unholy
Treat me like you are trying to break a pony
You don’t try to help me you try to control me
No, no, no way!
I say you wrong, you wrong,
You wrong, you wrong
You wrooooaaong
I say you wrong, you wrong,
You wrong, you wrong
You wrooooaaong
CHORUS
First came slavery
Then came segregation
It’s time for conscription to be done
First came slavery
Then came segregation
It’s time for conscription to be done!
Imagine
Bermuda
Red Light (Stop The Traffic)
Crysis
more to come...
