Jah!
Ras Tafari!

Home, oh home
Oh children, home
I wanna go home
Home, oh home
Yes children, home
I got to go home, yeah!

We've been trodding
From Genesis
Right on through Revelation
(Revelation, Revelation)
We've been a subject
To master's whip, so bleak
So we wanna go home, yeah!

We are a people
Enslaved and sold
Scattered through the earth
Jacob is calling his children
Twelve Tribes
So we wan' go home

Oh children
Home, oh!
To Zion
Home (home)
Wanna go home
Take me there
Home, oh! To Zion
Home (home)
Wanna go home, ye-ah!

We've been trodding
From Genesis
Right on through Revelation
(Revelation, Revelation)
We've been a subject
To master's whip, so bleak
So we wanna go home, oh! Oh! Oohy!

Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah and Zebulun
Issachar
Dan, Gad and Asher
Naphtali
Joseph and Benjamin, Twelve Tribes
So we wan' go home

Oh! Children, home, oh!
To Zion
Home (home)
I wanna go home
Oh! Children, home, oh
Take me home
Home (home)
Wanna go home, ye-ah!

Oh! Children, home, oh!
Oh, children
Home (home)
I wanna go home
Say, now we're longing to go
Home to Zion
Home (home)
Wanna go home

So here I seh, yeah!

Africa for Africans, at home and abroad
So man must go home, ye-ah!

Wadadle, wadaddle
Wadadle, wadadle
Tell me how you feeling, wadadle
Tell me how you feeling, wadadle
Are you feeling irie, wadadle
Are you feeling hopeful, wadadle
Are you feeling irie, wadadle
How are you feeling wadadle