Fly Di Gate - Tarrus Riley

Hey Ethiopia a long time no see

Yeh how yuh doing?

How’s my family?

Here in di west still a mind full of thee

Am coming home one day you’ll see

Wa a gwaan Jamaica look like yuh fi get

Where is yo culture, do no bother left it

Trees without roots don’t have nuff roots fi get

Yo legacy yuh shouldn’t neglect

Babylon fly di gate

Di youths dem waan fi repatriate

Now Babylon fly di gate

Right now di youth dem waan fi repatriate

Some weird faces, I love places

Woman abroad calling all Africans

One way ticket, more than a visit

Time is wasting, we’ve got to go

Children Am a African see us all

So come on, come on, Israel

Jamaica weh mi born but mama Africa is my own

It’s in my DNA down to my very cromozone

Di blood inna mi vane, di same blood that was slayen

In di fields dem of the cane

When di ships dem come around

But Africa that’s where I get my strength from

Di river Nile civilization I was sent from

Fi some a di youths dem from Kingston to St. Ann

Tell dem repatriation inna retention

Dem seh wi calling all di brothers an

Calling all di sisters an

Calling all di family an

Uhuh fi get ready and

Rather yuh a Muslim, Christian or a Rasta man

Member yuh a African

Babylon fly di Gate

Di youths dem waan fi repatriate

Babylon fly di Gate

Di Children dem fi repatriate

So pack up yo clothe and pack up yo shoes

Put on yo banners and yo red

Read yo bible everyday, make sure yo understand yo medz

Rather yo black or rather yo read

Rather yo ball head or yo dread

No bother trouble yo brain, just praise selassie instead

Cause he’s di one that open up di way

To organize di set like Markus Garvey in these day

Now I can’t afford to see di children go a stray

So never yuh delay, to open up di gate

Babylon fly di Gate

Di youths dem waan fi repatriate

Babylon fly di Gate

Di Children dem fi repatriate

Wi calling all di brothers an

Calling all di sisters an

Calling all di family an

Uhuh fi get ready and

Calling all di teachers an

The lawyers and di doctors an

Member yuh a African