CULTURE - Get Them Soft (One Stone)

1996--For Joseph,Respect.Written,produced and arranged by Joseph HILL.
Joseph Hill, Lead vocals and percussion
Albert Walker, Vocals
Ire'land Malomo, Vocals

Performed by DUB MYSTIC
Dean 'Digital' Pond, Drums
Anthony 'Lion' Arthur, Bass
Ricky 'Swann' Richardson, Guitars
Noel 'Barry' Aikens, Keyboards

Also featuring
Dean Fraser,sax - Chico,trumpet - Nambo Robinson,trombone - Vin Gordon,trombone - Harry T.,percussion - Tony "Asher" Brisset,keyboards.

Recorded at Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica
Engineered by Fathead
Mixed at Lion and Fox Studio, Washington, D.C.
Engineered by Jim Fox

GET THEM SOFT
Look how you chaka chaka and rink and mash up

For you nuh hear me wah de Rastaman say
Say you nuh fi sniff no cocaine down deh
You nuh hear me wah de Rastaman say
Say you nuh fi sniff no cocaine down deh

The cocaine ah get them off
Get them soft, get them soft
The cocaine ah get them off
Get them soft, get them soft
Mi say, the cocaine ah get them off
Get them soft, get them soft

As them start to sniff the cocaine
Them no washing them clothes again
Neither clean them boot
Neither wash them dirty foot

Ah wah happen to you master
Look deh round the brethren foot
Like no water no deh, but see yah master
Go ah river yeah. But look how him mother
And father nice and look now him stay sake
Ah the little white powder but is wah do the boy master

Mama give you one black fowl
An it lay one dozen egg
And sake ah the little white powder
The boy sell it off and start to beg

Papa have one big foot truck and
Him left it on the will fi you
Hindering you from turn a thief or
Neither turn a crook

Mama walk through dew water
And try send you to school
So you can learn the golden rule
And when you take a stock
You deh back a school a rude
because

Sometimes I sit and wonder
I wonder where them ambition gone
It seem them ambition turn a dirt
Upon a land

I wonder where your ambition gone
I wonder what you think
I wonder what example you setting for the youth
What them fi think bout you