[00:00.648]Why Am I a Rastaman -Culture
[00:03.685]A big question posed to me daily on the street
[00:08.604]Many want to know the reason why
[00:11.397]I am a rastaman
[00:14.131]Many people see I many people ask I
[00:16.786]Why am I a rastaman
[00:19.968]Many people see I many people ask
[00:22.818]Why am I a rastaman
[00:25.304]It ´s because
[00:26.859]Of the Babyloon
[00:29.339]And the situation
[00:31.483]It ´s because
[00:32.814]Of the Babyloon
[00:35.80]And the situation
[00:37.882]When I was a boy about eight years old
[00:40.766]There was a certain rastaman
[00:43.657]And he love all the children
[00:46.248]And he treated us like a man
[00:49.849]Even the little children that no one cares for
[00:52.450]He called up everyone
[00:55.502]And he gave us food and treated everyone
[00:59.423]With a special love
[01:01.435]Many people see I many people ask I
[01:04.358]Why am I a rastaman
[01:07.129]But he taught I the love
[01:10.672]To give to everyone
[01:13.267]Many people see I many people ask I
[01:16.498]Why am I a rastaman
[01:19.69]There is no better way to express my love
[01:22.271]To each and everyone
[01:25.671]One Saturday morning
[01:28.19]A special thing happend to this man
[01:31.253]Here come Mr Babylon
[01:33.937]He take away the rastaman
[01:36.762]To the root of him herb
[01:38.03]And the meat of him fruit
[01:40.624]And throw it in a van
[01:42.854]And staight up brother for trillion years
[01:45.653]I never see the rastaman
[01:48.314]They took him to general penitentiary
[01:51.127]And send him back as a valid man
[01:54.689]But that could not change him his mind
[01:56.947]Was not in prison was only his body man
[02:00.949]Many people see I many people ask I
[02:03.354]Why am I a rastaman
[02:06.585]No matter how hard the battle be
[02:09.414]I still have jah in my hand
[02:12.677]Many people see I many people ask I
[02:15.252]Why am I a rastaman
[02:18.524]How sweet the name of jah jah song
[02:21.374]To every righteous rastaman
[02:24.367]Am the same old rastaman
[02:26.953]Told me pounds shilling and things
[02:30.755]Would come out of circulation
[02:32.730]And we would use a true bird man
[02:35.974]Now I have seen
[02:37.790]Seven years after that
[02:39.444]It was no use man
[02:42.390]Donkey horses and 'cross keeper
[02:45.02]Trooding upon he a penny man
[02:48.271]Everyone see I everyone ask I
[02:51.94]Why am I a rastaman
[02:53.941]Am here to prove and to testify
[02:56.835]About prophecy
[03:00.79]Everyone who see I everyone ask I
[03:02.799]Why am I a rastaman
[03:05.477]John the baptist Marcus Garvey and Christ
[03:08.638]They was a rastaman
[03:11.701]Everyone who see I everyone ask I
[03:14.587]Why am I a rastaman
[03:17.451]I vowed the vow of a Nazarite
[03:19.702]And I can ´t be no otherwise man
[03:24.07]Everyone who see I everyone ask I
[03:26.690]Why am I a rastaman
[03:29.673]I love my brothers and I sisters
[03:31.684]And I can not give up a tall man
[03:36.295]Brother brown brother Chris brother John
[03:38.135]Brothers stand up man
[03:40.895]I use to hear them beat the drums and sing
[03:44.498]There in the forest land
[03:47.533]Everyone who see I everyone ask I
[03:50.39]Why am I a rastaman
[03:52.989]I love the beat
[03:54.216]Of the nayabinghi that call the creation
[03:59.222]Many people see I many people ask I
[04:01.770]Why am I a rastaman
[04:04.992]The truth is my friend
[04:06.473]There is no other righteous man