Ranking Joe – Choice Of Colour

The thing call “Choice of Colour”
Every hour of the hour musical show, as I would tell you, say
So don’t fight against your brother
Make us stick together like a bird in one feather in dis a weather
Do it, Jah!

Verse 1

No true, you black, you have fi stab mi in a mi back
No true, you white, you are go broke a little fight
No true, you brown, you are go walk an’ frown
No true, you red, you are go flash di natty dread

Chorus

‘Cause a choice of colour (Wow)
Tell you, dis are choice of colour
Every hour of di hour, a choice of colour
Go play the musical show every hour of di hour
Live it up, daddy (Hey)

Verse 2

No true, you black, you have fi stab mi in a mi back
No true, you white, you are go broke a little fight
No true, you brown, you are go walk an’ frown
No true, you red, you are go flash di natty dread

Chorus

‘Cause a choice of colour (Go deh)
Cah tell you, dis are choice of colour
Every hour of di hour, choice of colour (An’ a so mi say)

Bridge

A whether you are black an’ then whether you are white
No bother with no fuss an’ then no bother with no fight

Chorus

‘Cause a each one teach one (Down in a Babylon)
A each one teach one (Go deh)
Tell you said-a, each one love one
Natty dread, I beg you show dem ounce of love in a Babylon
Natty show dem ounce of love in a Babylon
A so we come here fi drink milk (Murda)
But we no come here fi kill cow (Bam-billy-bam, hey)

No true, you black, you have fi stab mi in a mi back (Huh)
No true, you white, you are go broke a little fight (Hey)
No true, you brown, you are go walk an’ frown (Hey)
No true, you red, you are go flash di natty dread

Chorus

‘Cause a choice of colour (Live it up, daddy)
Cah, dis are choice of colour
A so mi say, no bother show off your colour
Cah so mi say, no bother show off your colour (Hey)
No bother show off your colour (Live it up)

Verse 4

Because-a each one teach one (Go deh)
‘Cause if you see your little brother, say, you help him
‘Cause if you see your little sister, say, fi help her
Because-a each one teach one (Down in a Babylon)
Each one teach one (Yeah, you know?)

Chorus

Cah, natty tired fi carry every load (Huh)
Cah, natty tired fi carry every load (Hey)
Cah, natty tired fi carry every load (Hey)
‘Cause if you walkin’ on di rocky-rocky road (Hey)
Cah say, fi give thanks an’ praise unto Jah (Huh)
A then a so you come over (Murda, hey)

No true, you black, you are go stab mi in a mi back (Hey)
No true, you white, you are go broke a little fight (Huh)
No true, you brown, you are go walk an’ frown
No true, you red, you are go flash di natty dread

Outro

Because a choice of colour
Choice of colour every hour of di hour of di hour
No bother show off your colour
Hey now, so mi say, I said-a, make we stick together like a bird in one-a feather
But-a in a dis a weather, but a musically chopper
When I play my musical disc-