Protect Me Lyrics

Determination a mi title
From yuh lazy Jah no like yuh
You a look strength all bout
When the strength is inside yuh
Now a no the time fi yuh idle

Do not be envious of evil men
Nor desire to be with them
For their hearts devises violence
And their tongues talks of trouble making

Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Jah Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

How many more, youths Babylon a go murder
Cyah tek it no more
So mi jump pon a bus and mi gone down a country
Same thing a gwaan down deh
The likkle youth dem a fire gun down deh
A weh the country a come to
Dunwell seh better mi get a gun to
But mi naw dweet

Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Jah Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Mi waan start supm new
Mi just get a youth, waan live fi mi youth
Mi nuh waan dead young
Like whole heap a youth weh mi know from the slum
Weh we really a fight fah
Mi born come hear seh a enemy zone that
But mi see a man stand up a him gate
And a man walk up and give him four shot

Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Jah Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Civil war everywhere
Nations a fight against nation
The feast and famine
Wah really a gwaan pon the land
Jah Jah protect me, along the way
Fi mi family, every night I kneel and pray oohh

Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Jah Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney

Jah Jah beg yuh please nuh let me go
Weh mi a go do if you left mi now
Protect mi youths mi begging you
All a dem a, whole a we a
We a Jah Jah pickney