BUSH DOCTOR
(1978)


1. Don't Look Back
2. Pick Myself Up
3. I'm The Toughest
4. Soon Come
5. "Moses" The Prophet
6. Bush Doctor
7. Stand Firm
8. Dem Ha Fe Get A Beatin'
9. Creation


(You've Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back (haut de page)

If it's love that you're running from
There is no hiding place
Just your problems, no one else's problems
You just have to face

If you just put your hand in mine
We're gonna leave all our troubles behind
Gonna walk and don't look back(2x)
(CHORUS)

Now if your first lover let you down
There's something that can be done
Don't kill your faith in love
Remembering what's become
CHORUS

Places behind you
There to remind you

Now if your first lover let you down
There's something that can be done
Gonna heal your faith in love
Remembering what's been done

CHORUS

(Talking):
How far you been walkin' now
About 100 miles
You still got some more to walk
I know, I got a little more to go
I'm gettin' kind of tired but I got to keep on walkin'
I'm walkin' barefoot
You've got to walk and don't look back



Pick Myself Up (haut de page)

Sittin' in the morning sun
And watching all the birds passing by
Oh how sweet they sing
And oh how much I wish that I could fly

And I try
I said I try
I try
I really try try try

But I got to
Pick myself up
Dust myself off
Start all over, again (CHORUS 2x)

Sittin' in the midday sun
And wondering where my meal's coming from
After working so hard
Not even piece of bread at the yard

And I said I try
Oh Lord I try
I try
I really try try try

Sittin' in the evening sun
And watching the same birds passing by
Sittin' and wondering
And waiting for the time for me to fly

And I try
I said I try
Good Lord I try
I really try try try

So long and I just find
It was just a waste of time
So long and I just find
I been been wasting all my time

I've got to pick myself up...

 

I'm The Toughest (haut de page)

Anything you can do
I can do it better
I'm the toughest(2x)
And I can do what you can't do
You'll never try to do what I do
I'm the toughest(2x)
(CHORUS)

Stop from doing wrongs
Change your foolish plans
Stop from doing wrongs
Just live up like a man

I'm the toughest(2x)

Now my little brothers
You've got to be good
Do what's right
Don't be bad-minded
Just take what's yours
And there'll be no fuss or fight

CHORUS

Stop from doing wrongs
Change your foolish plan
Stop from doing wrongs
Just live up like a man

I'm the toughest(2x)

Now my brothers
You've got to be good
Just do what you know is right
Don't be bad minded
Just take what's yours
And there'll be no fuss or fight

CHORUS

I said I love my brothers
I said I love my sisters
I don't covet my neighbor
And I love my neighbor

 

Soon Come (haut de page)

Every time I call
You tell me that you soon come
I call you on the phone
You tell me that you soon come

I don't like hangin' around
Or to be pushed around
I got my business puttin' down
I don't like soon come

I checked you at the gate
You tell me that you soon come
Make a date you're late
I wait because you soon come

Tell I what you're waiting for
Is it bus, truck or car
I-Man don't like your war
I don't like soon come

I checked you uptown
You tell me that you soon come
I checked you downtown
You tell me that you soon come

Don't take I for a fool
Who just come at of school
Don't ride me like a mule
I don't like soon come

I saw you on the bus
You tell I that you soon come
You start to make a fuss
You tell I that you soon come

You coulda screwed 'til you blue
I got to be with you
No matter what you do
I don't like soon come

You coulda screwed 'til you blue
No matter what you do
The chances are with you
I don't like soon come

Put some smile on your face
Let money be the taste
Like your presence in this place
I don't like soon come

 

"Moses" The Prophet (haut de page)

Do you remember Moses
Do you remember Moses
Him no dead...

The man 'dep on earth still
The man a trod earth still
The man 'dep on earth still
Watch it now
The wicked them a gwan

Remember Elijah
Do you remember Elijah
Him no dead...
The man 'dep on earth still
The man a trod earth still...younger than ever
The man 'dep on earth still
Watch it now
The wicked them a gwan

Remember Jeremiah
Do you remember Jeremiah
That man no dead...
The man a trod earth still(3x)
Watch it now
The wicked them a gwan

Remember Satan(2x)
That guy no dead(3x)
The guy a trod earth still(3x)
Fulfilling his pledge to deceive the world

Remember Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Him no dead
That man no dead...
That man a trod earth still(3x)
Watching his prophecy fulfilled

 

Bush Doctor (haut de page)

Warning!
Warning! The Surgeon General warns
Cigarette smoking is dangerous, dangerous
Hazard to your health
Does that mean anything to you

To legalize marijuana
Right here in Jamaica
I'm say it cure glaucoma
I'm another Bush Doctor

So there'll be
No more smokin and feelin tense
When I see them a come
I don't have to jump no fence

Legalize marijuana
Down here in Jamaica
Only cure for asthma
I'm another Minister(of the Herb)

So there'll be no more
Police brutality
No more disrespect
For humanity

Legalize marijuana
Down here in Jamaica
It can build up your failing economy
Eliminate the slavish mentality

There'll be no more
Illegal humiliation
And no more police
Interrogation

Legalize marijuana
Down here in sweet Jamaica
Only cure for glaucoma
I'm another Bush Doctor

So there be
No more need to smoke and hide
When you know you're takin
Illegal ride

Legalize marijuana
Down here in Jamaica
It the only cure for glaucoma
I'm another Minister

 

Stand Firm (haut de page)

Live clean
Let your works be seen
Stand firm
Or you gonna feed worm
(CHORUS)

One baldhead tell me say
This here baldhead tell me say
Put one me clothes and come with him
And mek we go to church Sunday

Soul seekers I say

Jacket and tie come tell me say
Clean clothes come tell me say
If me come with him
And go to church this Sunday

Soul seekers I say

CHORUS

Dis here one come tell I say
Another one come tell I say
If you want to be saved son
Got to go in a grave son

Pack of bullshit
That is bullshit I say

The other one come tell I say
If you want to be in the light son
You've got to love Jesus Christ son

That is fantasy
Whole pack of ignorance I say

CHORUS

Then the parson tell I say
If I want to be pure within
I've got to come confess my sins

Another pirate I say

CHORUS

Dis here one come tell I say
Do you think it is wised
That I should get baptized
But when I realized
It was the devil in disguise

Dis here one come tell I say
Another one come tell I say
To be in the light
Got to take Jesus Christ

You're talkin' like gladness
But that is madness I say

CHORUS

 

Dem Ha Fe Get A Beatin' (haut de page)

Due to unfavorable financial condition
I am unable to cope with this financial shituation
That is causing inflation upon creation

I can't stand this no longer
The wicked get stronger
I can't stand this no longer
'Cause the battle is getting hotter

But them ha fe get a beatin'
The wicked ha fe get a beatin'
Them must get a beatin'
The wicked ha fe get a beatin'
(CHORUS)

Now that you waited
'Til you back is against the wall
One step to progess my brother
And I know Jah will help you all

CHORUS

I can't stand this no longer
The wicked get stronger
I can't stand this no longer
'Cause even cockroach get nuffer

CHORUS

Tell me how long
Must the good suffer for the bad
And every time the good open his mouth
The bad say "You must be mad!"

CHORUS

I can't stand this no longer

Now that you waited so long
'Til you back is against the wall
If you make one step to progress
I know Jah will help you all

CHORUS

I can't stand this no longer
The wicked get so strong
I can't stand this no longer
Everything seem to be wrong

CHORUS

 

Creation (haut de page)

King of Kings
Lord of Lords
In the beginning was the Word
And the Word was with Jah
And the Word was Jah

In the beginning Jah created the heaven and the earth
Then he created man of his own likeness and image
Gave unto man wisdom, knowledge, overstanding

Jah is my life and my strength
So whom shall I fear
He is a shield upon my right and my left hand
Jah is my king

Jah is my light and my salvation
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide throughout this Creation
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my guide
In my resting and my rising
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide when I step out and forward
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my guide
When Philistines come down upon I
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide when my enemies come to devour I
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my guide
From the pestilence of darkness
So whom shall I fear
He is my guide from the vampires of hell
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king

Jah is my health and my strength
So whom shall I fear
He is a shield upon my right and my left hand
So whom shall I be afraid
Jah is my king


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