作词 : Corey Harris/Alvertis Isbell
 作曲 : Corey Harris/Alvertis Isbell
Time ticks by
People wonder why, why
Don't you know you've got to check the time?
Ooh, ooh
If you don't keep your culture
Down come many vultures
See them in the sky above the ground
See some flesh, they come swooping down
If you don't seek truth and rights
Illuminating darkness with the light
Well, I know heathen gonna put up a fight
But wrong will never be right
Love will always conquer might
Coming in under the cover of night
The vultures come in to take a bite, ooh
Protect your neck just to save your life
But vultures never reach the highest heights
Striding into Zion
Cha-cha-cha-children got to ride on
Just like a conquering lion
True, true, true, true African
If you don't, who gonna do it for you?
Keep your culture, who gonna do it for you?
If you don't, who gonna do it for you?
My black people, keep your culture
Striding into Zion
Children got to ride on
Just like a conquering lion
True, true, true, true African
If you don't, who gonna do it for you?
If you don't, stop crying these blues
If you don't put up a fight
If not you, then who, dreadie?
Natty, what you gonna do? Say
Dreadie
Natty, keep your culture
What you gonna do? Say
Bingi, dreadie
Dreadie, keep your culture
Natty, say, what you gonna do?
Bingi, keep your culture
What you gonna do, dreadie?
Rasta, keep your culture
Woah, yeah
Natty, keep your culture
Woah, yeah
Keep your culture
Dreadie, keep your culture
All my people, keep your culture
Bingi, keep your culture
Keep your culture
Who gonna do it for you?
Rasta, keep your culture
Hey, if you don't, who gonna do it for you?
Natty, keep your culture
If you don't, who gonna do it for you?
Dreadie, keep your culture
Keep your culture
Woah, yeah
Bingi, keep your culture
Woah, yeah
Woah, yeah
Rasta, keep your culture
Rasta, keep your culture
Keep your culture
Rasta, keep your culture