Right now I man ago blaze challis in a Buckingham palace (yes, I)
Dem want di dread, dem nah go at Vatican, I-ya
No, I, Hotter fire burn down Vatican, I-ya
Give thanks and praise while challis blaze
Weakheart conception, Selassie I, correction
Cramp an' paralyse them an' those who worship Babylon

Said that old mother Wallis
I beg you, lend mi di challis
Let mi lick it in the palace (yeah)
Say, mi lick good challis in a Buckingham palace
And we dash 'way di malice
Out of Buckingham palace (yeah)
Say, we lick good challis in a Buckingham palace
And we chase mister Wallace
Said-a old mother Ritty
I beg you, lend mi your gritty
'Cause you no work iniquity, mother Ritty
Say dat you no work iniquity, mother Ritty
No work iniquity, mother Ritty
Say dat you no work iniquity, mother Ritty (yeah)

We dally dung at Vatican
Have fi go burn down Vatican
Have fi go kill two publican
When we burn down Vatican (yeah)
In Sodom an' Gomorrah there will be a whole lot of sorrow (yeah)

Cah Lot wife turn a pillar of salt
Say, down in a Sodom an' Gomorrah
Lot wife turn a pillar of salt
Simply because she find too much fault
I said she turn in a pillar of salt, she turn in a pillar of salt
But Lot could not worship a vanity as a humble dread
Look before, man, don't look back, ye (yeah)
Said dat lot wife turn a pillar of salt
Samson were strong but because he have done something wrong
Delilah betrayed him
Simply because him tell him dis truth have fi strengthen him
Delilah betrayed him, him cut off di natty dread

Let di locks grow long in a Babylon
So let di locks grow long
Dung in a Babylon (yeah)
Let di locks grow long in a Babylon
Let di locks grow long
Said dat in a Babylon
Let it grow in a Babylon
Let it grow till it reach your toe

Give thanks an' praise while challis blaze
Weakheart conception, Selassie I, correction
Cramp an' paralyse them an' those who worship Babylon
An' deal with iniquity
As I pity man was God was like man, I would say
Burn down di weakheart-dem
Chant down Babylon kingdom
Chant down Vatican city (yeah)
Don't fight

Di dread-dem sight up I-ya (yes I)
I and I and I and I and I, di humble one
'Cause you no know dread lion
You say you come from Zion
Dread lion was di only heister lion who could have chased [?] out of Zion with dem iniquity
Chase dem, lion, Lord, chase [?]
Chase dem, dread lion
Dread lion is a humble lion with sight up in a Zion high