[00:00.89] Rock stone was my pillow [00:05.87] Rock stone was my pillow [00:11.49] Rock stone was my pillow [00:16.44] I say, rock stone was my pillow [00:23.50] Rock stone was my pillow [00:26.61] Hear de man say [00:28.39] R-R-Rock stone was my pillow [00:30.31] Couldna find place fi sleep [00:32.03] Pot dem empty, we haffi find food fi eat [00:34.80] Everyday we terrorize [00:36.33] By soldier and police [00:37.56] When the thing dem a strum [00:39.11] And the thing dem a beat [00:40.72] From dem a play cowboy [00:42.02] And Indian, and chief [00:43.45] From the first, to the third [00:44.82] Straight up to seven street [00:46.56] One thing in a we mind [00:47.90] Haffe trample the beast [00:49.59] And make it in a life [00:50.95] And inherit as the meek [00:53.48] Self employed, cannot get lay off [00:56.19] Mount a work mi have [00:57.55] Can't even get a day off [00:59.24] Who did waan fi stop mi now [01:00.54] Dem find out seh dem way off [01:01.94] Alright [01:03.14] So mi seh one by one, one by one [01:06.58] One by one we stepping out ah babylon [01:09.24] And then one by one, one by one [01:12.31] Hail the King Selassie I, the conquering lion [01:14.88] Lion, Lion [01:16.62] Rock stone was my pillow [01:21.92] Rock stone was my pillow [01:28.04] Rock stone was my pillow [01:29.66] I say, rock stone was my pillow [01:33.37] Rock stone was my pillow [01:38.29] Help us Jah [01:39.88] Take us from the slum [01:41.42] Neva giveup matta what [01:43.02] Strictly fire burn [01:44.48] Hail rasta, take us from the slum [01:47.48] Neva giveup matta what [01:48.90] King Selassie I blessing come [01:50.80] Sufferation is a thing [01:51.96] Could be no harder time [01:53.63] Got to widen your views [01:55.16] Got to broaden your mind [01:56.52] What we face in the ghetto [01:58.15] Nowhere else can you find [01:59.65] Hunger, poverty, a system so unkind [02:02.58] As a matter of fact [02:03.77] There is an aftershock [02:05.16] When cold ground was my bed [02:06.77] And my pillow was a rock [02:08.36] Try to make it through the system [02:09.92] All the doors were locked [02:11.22] Yet nothing beats a try [02:12.65] And so I ain't go stop [02:14.14] Mount a time they write a book on you [02:16.29] A set amount a crap [02:17.65] They would a put on you [02:19.40] Yet when you in the dirt [02:20.82] They wouldn't look on you [02:22.28] They would only scorn [02:23.13] And wanna wipe they foot on you [02:25.18] So open up, Zion door [02:28.05] Ethiopia Africa for sure [02:31.13] Liberate the poor, the poor, ehhh [02:36.97] Mi nah lie, true mi hail [02:38.57] Selassie I dem waah fi war I [02:40.96] Read mi bible [02:42.17] Turn to peace [02:42.76] And praise 'tafari [02:44.95] Goodbye babylon goodbye, goodbye [02:48.86] Open up zion door [02:51.82] Mount Zion Ethiopia for sure [02:54.79] Children of Israel, children of Israel, Eh [03:02.03] Rock stone was my pillow [03:07.35] Rock stone was my pillow [03:12.54] Rock stone was my pillow [03:13.98] I say, rock stone was my pillow [03:19.43] Rock stone was my pillow [03:22.52] Hear me now [03:24.44] Jah man me cool, nuh stumble like you [03:26.10] Walk pon di street, me nuh gwaan for fool [03:27.58] Arrive at the dance, di mic a my tool [03:29.07] Eat pon table, sit inna stool [03:30.52] Me black me brown, me brown no black [03:31.93] Ribs an me chest, me spine a me back [03:33.42] Wait till you hear, when dis riddim drop [03:34.91] Head, you toe, you body a rock [03:36.39] From mi pon di mic, Steve Marley ah chat [03:37.91] Firm and strong, doh step pon the lot [03:39.33] The peaceful, righteous, Rastaman [03:40.77] Rod of correction, inna mi hand [03:42.35] Preachin out to man and woman [03:43.62] Give riches to King Solomon [03:47.72] Now, bass come out, and treble a top [03:49.68] Cap an no buck, an nuh a no cap [03:51.09] Sweetest singer, was sugar minott [03:52.40] Man a come in and ah give me a shot [03:53.93] Dracula tun inna Vampire bat [03:55.36] When him see sun, him cyah take that [03:56.86] Eye dem dark, fi use contact [03:58.29] I pon the mic, Raggamuffin a chat [03:59.62] Fi mi head dread, me head it no plat [04:01.28] Nuh fraid ah no mouse, nuh fraid ah no rat [04:02.78] Pray to Jah, me never will stop [04:04.26] We hot no cold, wah cold nuh hot [04:05.63] Live in a house, no live in a flat [04:07.03] Up inna zion, De righteous will top [04:08.54] Jah blow breeze, the devil cannot [04:12.37] Rock stone was my pillow [04:17.95] Rock stone was my pillow [04:22.49] Rock stone was my pillow [04:22.88] I say, rock stone was my pillow [04:29.53] Rock stone was my pillow [04:33.36]