BUNNY WAILER - Ready When You Ready (Liberation)

READY WHEN YOU READY
Cho.
Hey, mi ready when you ready fi go chant down
babylon, dutty system, Mi ready you ready fi go lick
down bbylon in a rhythm,
Mi ready when you ready fi go tear down babylon,
Mi ready when you ready fi go mash down babylon.

Them nah do it like how dem say dem plan,
Dem just a dash it out dey in a foreign land,
A hungry nation is a angry one,
And it is bound to cause a revolution,
Power struggle a bubble it a bubble,
And starvation is on the double,
The ghetto children don't seem to stand a chance
Instead of opportunity it's self reliance.

Cho.

Mi ready when you ready fi go tear down babylon,
dutty system, Mi ready when you ready fi go fling
down babylon in a rhtyhm,
Mi ready when you ready fi go chant down babylon,
Mi ready when you ready fi go lick down babylon.

The rise in prices is rising everytime,
And unemployment is making people turn to crime,
A bare promises and a bag a tricks,
While we kill each other over politics,
You want unity in a you community,
Tho yu don't belong to high society,
We hear of problems over the media,
About the blackman's struggle in a Africa.

Cho.

So miready when you ready fi chant down babylon,
Mi ready when you ready fi go tear down babylon,
Mi ready when you ready fi lick down babylon,
Mi ready when you ready fi go chant down babylon

Is it because of the book and pencil,
Why ou try to sidestep the treaty,

Is it because of the pen and paper,
Why you keep the chains on me,
Is it because of the book an pencil,
Why you try to avoid the treaty,
Is it because of the pen and paper,
Why you keep the chains on me.

If I had to fight for emancipation,
Then I shall resist for my liberation,
And with truth and right I shall win my liberty,
We shall unite to secure the victory,
Cudjoe and Nanny, their courage and their bravery,
Cuffy and Quashy, delivered their rage from slavery,
Marcus Garvey and His Imperial Majesty,
Luther King and Marley, voices the oppression
of humanity.

Cho.
So mi ready when you ready fi go chant down
babylon, dutty system, Mi ready when you ready fi
go tear down babylon in a rhythm,
Mi ready when you ready fi go lick down babylon,
Mi ready when you ready fi go mash down babylon,

The school graduates turn into loafters,
Educate children turn into beggars,
The underprivillege nah go have no privillege,
Mentally handicaps what a disadvantage.
Cho.

SONGS WRITTEN BY NEVILLE LIVINGSTON
PUBLISHED BY SOLOMONIC MUSIC 1987-88
PRODUCED, PERFORMED, ARRANGED AND DIRECTED BY BUNNY
WAILER FOR SOLOMONIC PRODUCTIONS °1987-1988
RECORDED AT: DYNAMICS SOUNDS RECORDING STUDIOS
ENGINEER: SYL MORRIS
MIXED AT: MIXING LAB STUDIOS KINGSTON, JA
MIXED BY: CARL PETERSON
MUSICIANS
Drums: Carlton Davis, Lincoln Scott & Sly Dunbar
Bass: Robbie Shakespeare, Errol Carter & Daniel Thompson
Rhythm Guitar: Erick Lamont, Earl 'Chinna' Smith
Lead Guitar: Dwight Pinkney & Cat Coore
Keyboards: 'Red Fox' Steart, Tony Asher & Keith Sterling
Horns: Barrington Bailey, Bobby Ellis, H. Bennet & Johnny Moore
Percussions: B. Wailer, Hugh 'Sticky' Thompson & Harry T. Powell
Lead Vocals: B. Wailer
Backing Vocals: "PSALMS" (vocal group), & B. Wailer