RED, YELLOW, & GREEN

Verse:
I read a book of Mr. Marley’s
About the Rastafari’s
About the black kings
And emperor Haile Selassie’s
About the Ethiopian's warring with the Somali's
Muslims and Christians fighting over whose God is more Godly
Roller, Buffalo Soldier
Stolen in the night as if cousins don’t know us
And my cousins like damn
"Typa shit is that?
Said he was going to the store
And he’d be right back,"
Shipped to Jamaica
Shipped with my neighbors
Ship so small couldn’t shit couldn’t bathe us
The shit so tall
Predicament so shitty
Sharks tailing the ship just for when we get tossed
What’s the odds of success
When you’re dodging your death?
Theories of relatives we leave, objects at rest
This for all those that left
For Mandela, for Morocco
This for Lumumba, for Bermuda
And Burkina Faso

Chorus:
Red, Yellow, and Green
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and Green
But they don’t even know what it mean
Red, Yellow, and Green
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and Green
But they don’t even know what it mean
Red, Yellow, and Green

Verse:
Nappy head Peter Tosh
Tatty Dread
Led them to the rocks
Parted seas then across
I done seen many sons like Father Abraham
Lebron of life, prototype
I’m the latest man
It’s crazy not knowing just where you're from
It's like knowing where I was born
Is just knowing how far I’ve come
Hell I could be from Togo
Hell I could be in Soho
And bump into my kinfolk and not even know so
Relentless
God as my witness
Them white folks at the old job on my hit-list
What is this?
They took and hid us in cages
Ain’t nothing but niggas zoos
In prisons across the nation
Remember when we would dream?
Remember when we would build?
Remember when we were kings?
I say wait
Red – Wait – Red
Red – Yellow – Green
(God make a promise, and the promise must come true)

Chorus:
Red, Yellow, and Green
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and Green
But they don’t even know what it mean
Red, Yellow, and Green
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and
Red, Yellow, and Green
But they don’t even know what it mean
Red, Yellow, and Green


Outro:
Bob Marley on Rastafari in interview with Steven Miller