[00:00.05]Bongo Town - Prodigal Sons
[00:00.10]Written by：C. Whilby/H. Browne
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[00:01.41]Gospel fi preach a bongo town
[00:04.39]You see I don't come to 'cause a controversy but
[00:06.50]Gospel fi preach a bongo town
[00:09.06]I'm just gonna speak some truth from Imperial Majesty
[00:11.70]Gospel fi preach a bongo town
[00:14.54]Haile Selassie I mi Christian brother
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[00:16.76]Gospel fi preach a bongo town
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[00:21.12]Jah overh Jireh hear the man say
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[00:27.57]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town town town town
[00:32.76]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town now watch this
[00:38.06]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town town town town
[00:43.29]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town watch this
[00:48.48]Me love the church but the Christians save
[00:50.72]So me start preach the gospel 'pon di highways the by ways
[00:53.88]Inspired by Haile Selassie
[00:56.16]To the Ras them we want bring clarity boom now
[00:59.01]Mi love drumming and the ites gold and green an' yeah
[01:02.06]Mi love the ital vege and the beans an' yeah
[01:04.43]Mi love the gesture sey man heart fi clean
[01:06.86]Wus mi no nyam if yuh know whey me mean
[01:09.40]A mi no deh ya so fi 'cause confusion
[01:12.41]But did you know that Selassie was a Christian
[01:15.20]Him make the most churches give to the Africans
[01:17.66]And bring Orthodox to Jamaicans and say
[01:20.34]A man without Christ is like a ship without a rudder
[01:23.15]'66 when him land inna Jamaica people bow down
[01:26.86]Him say rise up mi brother I'm not God
[01:29.30]I am sent by the Father
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[01:31.59]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town up
[01:35.03]A Bobo hill yeah
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[01:36.63]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town
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[01:39.92]Round a Judgement y'all
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[01:42.04]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town
[01:45.69]We a go tek it out a 9 mile
[01:48.04]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town a nyabinghi
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[01:52.48]A make a trod me and mi brethren dem yeah
[01:55.35]Nyabinghi a gwaan dung a May Pen
[01:57.75]And when mi stop inna the middle a di square
[02:00.22]A hear man a bun gays and queers now
[02:03.17]Another man a bun a fire 'pon another man
[02:05.69]Another man a tell another man him badder than
[02:08.35]True mi no Rasta him say mi no him brother
[02:10.98]To Selassie that's a big contradiction 'cause
[02:13.57]Selassie ano Christ so a Christ yuh fi honour
[02:16.33]Inna passa passa business Selassie never walla
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[02:19.00]Rastaman this is a tough pill fi swallow
[02:21.53]But a Jesus Selassie I follow
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[02:24.95]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town up a Wareika
[02:30.12]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town a fire house
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[02:35.42]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town
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[02:40.84]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town so watch this
[02:45.83]The truth hurt but the truth set you free
[02:48.07]Inna Matthew 24 Jah sey Listen to me
[02:50.68]When me come again everybody a go see
[02:53.19]So a couldn't him land a Norman Manley
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[02:56.15]A full time we put down the confusion
[02:58.65]A house that's divided just can't stand
[03:01.28]So go read your Bible go read all or none
[03:04.03]It say Jesus a the only Son me done
[03:08.03]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town
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[03:11.09]A dung a Trench Town
[03:13.04]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town
[03:16.00]Inna tenement y'all
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[03:18.09]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town
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[03:21.76]A up a Judgement y'all
[03:23.68]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town
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[03:28.65]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town
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[03:32.32]A wey you go a Bobo Hill
[03:34.19]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town every corner
[03:39.27]The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town
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[03:43.04]A just the good news
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[03:44.79]The gospel fi preach dung a congo town Jesus alive