They just a stretch them neck Across the fences Just to see when the Rastaman a come They just a stretch them neck Across the fences Just to see when the Rastaman a come You have got to be clean inside You have got to be united Just to see when the Rastaman a come You have got to have charity And love within your heart Just to see when the Rastaman a come Can't be no prostitute living You have got to be clean and upful and right Just to see when the Rastaman a come Can't be grudgeful nah red eye Nah licky-licky nah eat swine Just to see when the Rastaman a come (Chant) You've got to have a stretch out hand To receive in your strange brother Just to see when the Rastaman a come The thing can't be too small To share amongst your brother Just to see when the Rastaman a come I would even be a footmat in Mount Zion And lay down Just to see when the Rastaman a come I will beat my drum And I will sit on the sand on the listening shore of Jamaica Just to see when the Rastaman a come They took me from Africa And leave us here on a pirate boat Just to see when the Rastaman a come My children, children, children Shall give a testimony of his life Just to see when the Rastaman a come We'll beat salvation drum from shore to shore From door to door Just to see when the Rastaman a come Iration drum is not a seed on the rich man table But on the table of the poor Just to see when the Rastaman a come Lick it Dread Selassie I To see when the Rastaman a come Sound ye the trumpet of Zion That the inhasitant of Earth may tremble Just to see when the Rastaman a come It's not a big sound Neither a small sound To see when the Rastaman a come It's not a jigsaw Neither a puzzle To see when the Rastaman a come Me no have fi have no spliff Me no have fi have no pipe To see when the Rastaman a come