Name: Survive Inna Babylon
Duration: P00H03M23S
Description: This song is also available on a four-track 12” vinyl

Earl Sixteen - Survive Inna Babylon

from ZION ITES RIDDIM by Horace Andy & Obajah, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Osbourne, Earl Sixteen

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lyrics

No it's not easy
Living in the heart of the city
So much crying and poverty

As we're trodding through creation
We're facing tribulation
We hold on strong to Jahovia
As we cross these borders now

I tell the young generation
Them better get an education
Cause it's not easy for the Rastaman
To survive inna Babylon

Just to survive yeah

Every day we feel the pressure
The government they have the power now
But we've got to fight the struggle
Hey my people what we gonna do
One some have an education
They can't even find a hustling
And if they even get a job
Then the taxman is coming in to rob

Come to rob now yeah
No it's not easy now now

So we see it's getting harder
Now them locking down the borders
There's no love in the city
And the struggle it's not easy

I tell the young generation now
Them got to get an education
Cause it's not easy for the Rastaman
To survive inna Babylon

Just to survive yeah

War and violence is all I see
On the lane and on the streets
Some will end up in a prison
And their mama keeps on crying
And I we're trodding to creation

We know we face this tribulation
We hold on strong to Jahovia
As we cross these borders now

You know it's not easy
In the city now yeah

Every day we feel the pressure
The government them have the power now
We've got to fight the struggle
Hey my people what we gonna do

I tell the young generation
Them better get an education now
Cause it's not easy for the Rastaman
To survive inna Babylon

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from ZION ITES RIDDIM, released March 20, 2020
Lyrics by Earl Daley
Music by Martin Menahem
Produced and arranged by Martin Menahem
Engineered and mixed by François "Cisko" Laclotte at Guardian House Studio

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Seven Trumpets Records is dedicated to promoting roots reggae and rub a dub music worldwide. New releases to come featuring Horace Andy, Johnny Osbourne, Earl Sixteen, Johnny Clarke.

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