Songs of Freedom (B)

BACK OUT

(Bob Marley)

Back out: this is the rout!
Back out, and shut your mouth!
Back out: you ain't got no behaviour!
Back out: don't know who could be your saviour!
Yahso, Mistress Martin:
Couldn't speak like yahso!
Yahso, Mistress Martin:
Couldn't speak like yahso, yahso, yahso, yahso! Yeah!
Back out, and shut your mouth!
Back out: ooh, yea-eah!
Back out: you're makin' things go slow!
Back out: on the go!
Yahso, Mistress Martin:
Couldn't speak like yahso!
Yahso, Mistress Martin:
Could never speak like yahso, yahso, yahso (yahso)! Ooh, yeah!

---

/Organ solo/

(Sweet soul music)
(Sweet soul music)
(Sweet soul music)
(Sweet soul music)
(Sweet soul music)
(Sweet soul music)

---

Eh! Yahso, Mistress Martin:
Couldn't speak like yahso!
Yahso, Mistress Martin:
Could never speak like yahso, yahso, yahso (yahso)!
Eh! Ooh! Back out now, and shut your mouth (Back out!)
Shut your mouth! (Back out!)
Makin' things go slow! (Back out!)
Now you're on the go! (Back out!)
You're back - back - back - now! (Back out!)
You never, never knew (Back out!)
You would be back - back - back now! (Back out!)

SOUL SHAKEDOWN PARTY

(Bob Marley)

We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight!
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight!
The way you love-a me, huh!  It's all right!
When you put your lovin' arms around me, and you hold me tight - hold me tight.

This is my invitation:
I got the special vacation;
I need your concentration
Just to feel your vibration
At that soul shakedown party
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight!

Jane is in the back yard
Doin' the outside dance;
I'm tellin' you the other day,
She didn't even get a chance!

But this is my invitation:
A just-a special vacation;
I need your concentration
Just to - just to - just to (vibration) just to:
(Soul shakedown party tonight)  Baby, I need you tonight!
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight!

Hit it, brother, y'all!

---

The way you love-a me, it's all right!  (It's all right)
When you put your lovin' arms around me (arms around me),
and you hold me tight (hold me tight).

This is my invitation:
I got the special vacation;
I need your concentration
Just to feel your vibration.

At that soul shakedown party tonight!
We gonna have a soul shakedown party tonight!  Uh!
Swing with me, baby!
(Soul shakedown party tonight)

DO IT TWICE

(Bob Marley)

You know that I love you,
Baby, but you just won't let me.
You know that I love you,
Baby, but you just won't let me.
Every morning I get up, I sip my cup;
My eyes get red, no-one to hear me.
One more thing I'd like to say right here,
Baby, but you just won't let me.
One more thing I'd like to say right here,
Baby, but you just won't let me.
I'd like to say: baby, you so nice:
I'd like to do the same thing twice, yeah!
Baby, you so nice.
I'd like to do the same thing twice.
I love you so much, so-o-o-
Love you - love you, baby, so much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

---

I live in the woods alone;
I need your (company) company.
Baby! Woods alone!
I need your company, yeah!
Every morning I get up, I sip my cup;
My eyes get red, no-one to hear me.
One more thing I'd like to say right here,
Baby, but you just won't let me, yeah!
One more thing I'd like to say right here,
Baby, but you just won't let me.
I'd like to say: baby, you so nice:
Do the same thing twice, yeah!
Baby, you so nice;
I'd like to do the same thing twice;
I love you, baby, so much.

SOUL REBEL

(Bob Marley)

I'm a rebel, soul rebel
I'm a capturer, soul adventurer
I'm a rebel, soul rebel
I'm a capturer, soul adventurer
See the morning sun (ah-ah-ah-ah-ah) on the hillside (ooh)
Not living good, yeah! - travel wide,
Said, I'm a living man (ah-ah-ah-ah-ah); I've got work to do (ooh)
If you're not happy, children, then you must be blue
(must be blue, must be blue) people say:
People say:
I'm a rebel, let them talk;
Soul rebel: talk won't bother me.
I'm a capturer, that's what they say;
(Soul adventurer) Night and day
(I'm a rebel) I'm a rebel: soul rebel!
Do you hear them, Lippy?
(I'm a capturer) Gossip around the corner;
(Soul adventurer) How they adventure on me, y'all.
But see the morning sun (ah-ah-ah-ah-ah) on the hill side (ooh);
Not living good, travel wide,
Said, I'm a living man (ah-ah-ah-ah-ah);
I've got work to do
(ooh-ooh; must be blue, must be blue, must be blue).
If you're not happy,
You must be blue.
I'm a rebel (ooh-ooh):
Soul rebel;
I'm a capturer (ooh-ooh):
soul adventurer. Do you hear me?
I'm a rebel, rebel in the morning;
(soul rebel) rebel at midday time.

SUN IS SHINING

(Bob Marley)

Sun is shinin', the weather is sweet;
Make you want to move your dancin' feet:
To the rescue, here I am!
Want you to know, y'all, where I stand!
---
/Instrumental break/
---
(Monday morning) Here I am!
Want you to know (Tuesday evening) just if you can
Where I stand.
(Wednesday morning) Tell myself a new day is risin';
(Thursday evening) get on the rise a new day is dawnin'.
(Friday morning) Here I am!
(Saturday evening) Want you to know just -
Want you to know just where I stand!

When the morning gathers the rainbow,
Want you to know, I'm a rainbow, too.
So, to the rescue, here I am!
Want you to know just if you can
Where I (stand) - know - know - know - know -
   know - know - know - know.
---
/Guitar solo/
---
We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises-a!
We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises, yea-eah!

(Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now
Make you want to move your dancing feet)
So, to the rescue, here I am!
Want you to know just if you can
Where I (stand) - know - know - know - know where I stand

(Monday morning), scoo-be-doop scoop-scoop!
Tuesday evening, scoo-be-doop scoop-scoop!
Wednesday morning, scoo-be-doop scoop-scoop!
Thursday evening, scoo-be-doop scoop-scoop!
Friday morning, scoo-be-doop scoop-scoop!
Saturday evening, scoo-be-doop scoop-scoop!

So, to the rescue - to the rescue - to the rescue, all right!  And so ...
---
/Instrumental break/
---
Awake from your sleep and slumber:
Today could bring your lucky number, er - er!
Sun is shining (and the weather is sweet)
Sun is shining (and the weather is sweet)
Sun is shining (and the weather is sweet)
Sun is shining (and the weather is sweet)

DON'T ROCK THE BOAT

(Bob Marley)

Please don't you rock my boat,
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' anyhow.
Please don't you rock my boat, no!
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin'.
I'm tellin' you that, oh, oo-er!
I like it like-a this. Can you hear?
And you should know, ooh-oh! -
When I like it-a like-a this.
I'm-a really it, ooh-yeah!
You satis - satis - satisfy my soul mornin' time - evenin', oh-oh!
- fy my soul!
Yes, I been a-tellin' you,
Make me the sweetest case:
Happy inside all the time.
Oh, can't you see what you've done for me? Yeah.
You make me feel like, when we bend a new corner,
We feel like sweepstake winner, yeah!
When we bend a new corner,
We feel like sweepstake winner.
And I said, oh! Ooh-oh! I like it-a like-a this. Yes, I do!
And you should know, ooh-oh!
When I like it-a like-a this
I got it; just can't miss, ooh!
Satis - satisfy my soul, darlin':
Make me love you in the mornin' time, yeah.
If ever I treated you bad, make it up to me one time.
'Cause I'm happy inside all the time.
I want you beside me, yeah! - to be mine.
One thing you got to do
Is when-a we holdin' 'ands together
You've got to know that we love-a - love eachother, yeah!
And if evertime you should walk away from me now,
You'll know I'll need your sympathy, yea-eah!
Can you see? Do you believe me?
Oh, darlin', darlin', I'm callin', callin'!
Satisfy my soul - satisfy my soul!
Never, never, never give it up now.
All in the same boat -
Rockin on the same rock.
Got to get together, lovin' eachother;
And can't you see what I've got for you, yeah.
I'm happy - happy - happy - happy - happy
And not even time to be blue, yeah.
Come a little closer

SMALL AXE

(Bob Marley)

Why boasteth thyself, O evil men;
Playing smart and not being clever, oh no!
I say you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity, yeah, if a-so a-so.
But the goodness of Jah - Jah
Idureth for Iver.

If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,  (well sharp)
Ready to cut you down, oh yeah!

These are the words of my master
Keep on tellin' me   - o-oh! - no weak heart shall prosper:
Oh no, they can't!   Eh.

And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord,
Shall fall in it - shall fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.

If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.
---
/Instrumental break/
---
Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall fall in it - fall in it, eh!
Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.

If you are the big tree,
We have a small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.

If you are the big tree,
Let me tell you this: we are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.

If you have a big tree ...

DUPPY CONQUEROR

(Bob Marley)

Yes, me friend,
We deh a street again.
Yes, me friend, me good friend,
Dem say we free again.

The bars could not hold me;
Force could not control me now.
They try to keep me down, yeah!
But Jah put I around.   Yeah!

Yes, I've been accused many a times
And wrongly abused, now.
Oh, but through the powers of the Most-I,
They've got to turn me loose.

O-o-oh!  O-o-ooh!   Oh!  Don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion -
The highest region.
So if you a bull-bucka,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror.  Oh, yeah!

Yes, me friend, me good friend,
We deh a street again.   O-oh!
Yes, me friend, me good friend,
Dem say we free again.   Oh!  Oh!

So don't try to cold me up on this bridge, now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion -
The highest region.
So if you a bull-bucka,
Let me tell you this:
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror.  Oh, yeah!

Yes, me friend,
Dem say we free again.   Oh!  Oh, yeah!
Yes, me friend,
Dem set we free again.   Oh!
Yes, me friend, me good friend, ...

MR BROWN

(Bob Marley)

(Ooh - ooh - ooh - ooh)
(It's Mr Brown) Mr Brown is a clown who rides to town in a coffin.
(Well, here he comes) In the top is ... three rows on top and two
inside there.
Oh, what a confusion! Ooh, yeah, yeah!
What a botheration! Ooh, now, now!

Who is Mr Brown? I wanna know now!
He is nowhere to be found.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
I wanna know who (is Mr Brown)?
Is Mr Brown controlled by remote?

O-o-oh, calling duppy conqueror,
I'm the ghost-catcher!
This is your chance, oh big, big Bill bull-bucka,
Take your chance! Prove yourself! Oh, yeah!

Down in parade
People runnin like a masquerade.
The police make a raid,
But the people - oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - they think it fade.

What a thing in town
Crows chauffeur-driven around,
Skankin' as if they had never known
The man they call "Mr Brown".

I can tell you where he's from now:
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville

SCREW FACE

(Bob Marley)

Whoa, now!
Screwface know-a who fi frighten!
Screwface know-a who fi frighten!
Like I told, they say, "Coward, man".
Gonna keep some bones And all violent man gonna weep and moan.
He that exalted him say, "Yeah!" Shall be obeyed.
Remember Jah - Jah children deh!
Don't dread no pain.
Fear do we go now
To the rivers of ungodly waters, we'll fear no foe (fear no foe, fear no foe).
Wherever I go, Not even the pestilence That crawl at I'n'
I Can't do - wo-wo-wo - me no wrong (just can't do me no wrong).
Oh, now!
I tell you what red is! I tell you what I know:
(Screwface know-a who fi frighten!)
Screwface know-a who fi frighten!
Screwface know-a who fi frighten! Wo, now!
(Screwface know-a who fi frighten!)
Screwface will frighten screwface!
(Screwface know-a who fi frighten!)
Long time gone, y'all!
(Screwface know-a who fi frighten!)
Screwface will frighten screwface!
Wo, yeah! Now! (Screwface know-a who fi frighten!)

LICK SAMBA

(Bob Marley)

Lick Samba, lick Samba, lick Samba;
wo-oh, lick samba!
A me say: lick Samba, lick Samba, wo, now! (wo-oh, lick samba!)
I could not resist (lick samba, lick samba, lick samba) - wo, now! (Wo-oh, lick samba!)
Another like dis (lick samba, lick samba, lick samba) - wo, now! (Wo-oh,) lick samba!
And though I know you hurt me again, - wo-oh, lick samba!
I'll go on, I'll feel the pain; - wo-oh, lick samba!
And it's not that I am weak, - wo-oh, lick samba!
But it's that I'm on a peak, oh darlin'.
Wo-oh, lick samba!
A just-a lick Samba, lick Samba, lick Samba; I say: wo-oh, lick samba!

--------------

Wo, now! Wo-oh, lick samba!

--------------

Wo, now, now!
Wo-oh, lick samba!
Bring it up, a-lick it one time right here;
- wo-oh, lick samba!
I'll settle a little, a claim, baby;
- wo-oh, lick samba!
You can write it down in my name;
- wo-oh, lick samba!
Morning time, noon or night;
- wo-oh, lick samba!
A dis-a lick samba, lick samba, lick samba!
Woh oh, lick samba!
Lick samba, lick samba, lick samba, wo now!
Woh oh, lick samba! Yea-yeah:

--------

Wo, darlin'!
Woh oh, lick samba!
Woo, yeah! If it's morning time, I'm ready (lick samba, lick samba, lick samba);
wo-oh, lick samba!
If it's late at night, I'm steady (lick samba, lick samba, lick samba);
wo-oh, lick samba!
Give it to you anytime, oh darlin'! (lick samba, lick samba, lick samba)
Wo-oh, lick samba!
I'm not a preacher, but I am callin' (lick samba, lick samba, lick samba);
wo-oh, lick samba!

TRENCHTOWN ROCK

(Bob Marley)

One good thing about music, when it hits ya (you feel no pain);
Wo-wo-wo, I say: One good thing about music, when it hits ya
(you feel no pain):
Hit me with music, yeah!  Hit me with music now!
This is: (Trenchtown Rock)  Don't watch that!
(Trenchtown Rock)   Big fish or sprat now!
(Trenchtown rock)   You reap what you sow.
(Trenchtown Rock)   And only Jah-Jah know.
(Trenchtown Rock)   I never turn my back.
(Trenchtown Rock)   I give the slum a try.
(Trenchtown Rock)   I never let the children cry,
(Trenchtown Rock)   'Cause you got to tell Jah - Jah why.
(Groovin')  It's Kingston 12;
(Groovin')  It's Kingston 12;
(Groovin')  It's Kingston 12, now;
(Groovin')  It's Kingston 12.
(No want you fe galang so), oh no!
(No want you fe galang so), scaba-dip, scaba!
(You want come cold I up), scaba-diba-dip!  Scaba-dip, scaba-dip!
(But you can't come cold I up)
Wo - wo - wo, I'm a groover,
And the world know by now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, y'all!

Oh now, I say: you feel no pain now;
One good thing about music
When it hits ya (you feel no pain) - feel no pain:
Hit me with music, now - wo now!
Hit me with music now!
Hit me with music!)   'Arder!  Brutalize me!
(Hit me with music!)
This is: (Trenchtown Rock)  I say don't watch that,
(Trenchtown Rock)   If you are big fish or sprat;
(Trenchtown Rock)   You reap what you sow -
(Trenchtown Rock)   I - everyone know now
(Trenchtown Rock)   Don't turn your back!
(Trenchtown Rock)   I say, give a slum a try;
(Trenchtown Rock)   Never let the children cry
(Trenchtown Rock)   Or you got to tell Jah - Jah why.

(Groovin')  It's Kingston 12;
(Groovin')  It's Kingston 12;
(Groovin')  I said, it's Kingston 12 now!
(Groovin')  Wo - wo - wo - wo, it's Kingston 12.
(No want you fe galang so)  Since I told you that
(No want you fe galang so)  We should live with love.
(You want come cold I up)   And I don't do that ...
(But you can't come cold I up)  I look da now!
And then it's Kingston 12.  Uh!

Good God, look a-here now! (you feel no pain)  Uh!
Hit me with music, yeah!  Come on!  (Hit me with music)
(Hit me with music), oh my brother! (Hit me with music) Brutalize me!
(Hit me with music!)   Oh hurt me!   (Hit me with music)
We can trash this ourselves!
(Hit me with music)
(Trenchtown Rock)   Don't call no cop!
(Trenchtown Rock)   We can trash things ourselves!
(Trenchtown Rock)   Got no stacks on no shelves!
But let me tell ya, behave yourselves!
(Trenchtown Rock)

MR BROWN

(Bob Marley)

(Ooh - ooh - ooh - ooh)
(It's Mr Brown) Mr Brown is a clown who rides to town in a coffin.
(Well, here he comes) In the top is ... three rows on top and two
inside there.
Oh, what a confusion! Ooh, yeah, yeah!
What a botheration! Ooh, now, now!

Who is Mr Brown? I wanna know now!
He is nowhere to be found.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
I wanna know who (is Mr Brown)?
Is Mr Brown controlled by remote?

O-o-oh, calling duppy conqueror,
I'm the ghost-catcher!
This is your chance, oh big, big Bill bull-bucka,
Take your chance! Prove yourself! Oh, yeah!

Down in parade
People runnin like a masquerade.
The police make a raid,
But the people - oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - they think it fade.

What a thing in town
Crows chauffeur-driven around,
Skankin' as if they had never known
The man they call "Mr Brown".

I can tell you where he's from now:
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville

GUAVA JELLY

(Bob Marley)

You said you love me;
I said I love you.
Why won't you stop your cryin'?  (cryin', cryin')
Dry your weeping eyes.
You know that I love - I love - I love - I love you so,
Da-da-dam da-da-damsel.

Here I am, me said,
Come rub it 'pon me belly
Wid you guava jelly,
Da-da-dam da-da-damsel

(Here I stand)  Wo now!
(Come rub it 'pon me belly)  Wo, now!
(Wid you guava jelly)   Wo, now!

I really, really - I really love you;
Yes, I really, really love you, child.
I say you should stop, stop your cryin'
Wipe - wipe your weeping eyes
Tell you how I'm gonna love -
     love you from the bottom of my heart
(Damsel)  Oh, damsel!

(Here I am)  Wo, damsel!
(Come rub it 'pon me belly)  Wo, damsel!
(Wid you guava jelly),
Da-da-dam da-da-damsel.

(Here I stand)  I can't explain,
(Come rub it)   Though the fact still remain ('pon me belly):
I need your love (wid you guava jelly) so much.
Come-a, come-a, come-a, damsel, oh darlin'.

(Here I stand)   Oh, damsel, baby.
Me say (come rub it 'pon me) - me say (belly) -
Me say (wid you guava jelly).

ACOUSTIC MEDLEY

Guava Jelly
This Train
Cornerstone
Comma Comma
Dewdrops
Stir It Up
I'm Hurting Inside

a. GUAVA JELLY
(Bob Marley)

Baby, I really, really love you now.
I think you should stop your cryin';
Here my kerchief to dry your eyes,
You know that I love you, yea-eah-eah.
Groovy; here I am:
Come rub it 'pon me belly
Like a guava jelly.
Damsel, here I stand:
Come rub it 'pon me belly
Like-a guava jelly.

b. THIS TRAIN
(Bob Marley)

This train - mm - mm - mm;
This train is bound to glory - this train;
Talkin' 'bout ma: this train is bound to glory - this train:
This train is bound to glory,
This train carry no un'oly;
This train - I'm a-talkin' 'bout: this train.

When I was just a kid,
My mommy used to sing this song.
Now I've grown to be a man,
Well, it still lingers deep down in my soul;
I said, it still lingers deep down in my soul.

I'm talkin' 'bout: this train is bound to glory - this train;
This train is bound to glory - this train;
This train is bound to glory,
O dis 'ere train carry no un'oly.
This train - I'm a-talkin' 'bout: this train.


c. CORNERSTONE
(Bob Marley)

The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone-a;
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone.

You're a builder, baby;
Here I am, a stone.
Don't you pick and refuse me,
'Cause the things people refuse
Are the things they should choose.
Do you 'ear me?   Hear what I say!

Stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone-a;
The stone that the builder refuse, yeah! -
Will always be the head cornerstone.

You're a builder, baby;
Wo, here I am, a stone!
Don't you pick and refuse me,
'Cause the t'ings people refuse
Are the things they should use;
The things people refuse
Are the things they should use.
Do you 'ear me?   Hear what I say!

Stone dat them builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone-a;
The stone that dem builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone.


d. COMMA COMMA
(Bob Marley)

Comma, comma, come back here,
My-y young lady;
Comma, comma, come back here to me,
My-y young lady, yeah!
Jus' while I thought
Everything was running smooth,
She left me
While I was in the mood.
Now I'm callin' to you,
But my world is relying for you to:

Comma, comma, come back here,
My-y young lady, yeah!
Comma, comma, come back here to me,
My-y young lady!
Jus' while I thought
Everything was running smooth.
You know I love you;
Oh now I love you.            /fadeout/


e. DEWDROPS
(Bob Marley)

Mm-mm-hm.
I've been searchin' the whole darn day
For a little woman of mine - mine - mine - mine.
Someone a-told me I could find her here,
But it seem she disappear.
Said, I searched the whole darn day;
Night is drawing nigh.
I t'ink I'd better go home;
Try tomorrow again.

But when I reached that railroad station,
I missed the last train,
And then it seemed like dewdrops
Gonna fall on me;
Yes, it seem like teardrops
Gonna call on me now.

I said, I'd better make up my mind
What am I gonna do.
Am I gonna rest up here,
Or am I gonna push on through?

My mind say, "Hey, man, ya hit the road."
Down there I missed the track - track - track;
I'm lost!  Lord, I'm lost, eh!
Love is such a heavy load!

And then: for crying out loud, come back to me!
For crying out loud, hear my plea!
For crying out loud, come back to me!
Why do you treat me so bad?
Why do you treat me so bad?
Mm - mm - mm - mm - bam, bam.
Bom, bom, bome, bome.


f. STIR IT UP
(Bob Marley)

Let's stir it up!
Stir it up, little darlin';
Stir it up.  Yaga, yaga.
Little darlin', stir it up.  Mm.
Little darlin'.

It's been a long, long time
Since I've got you on my mind, o-oh.
Now you are here
It's so clear:
See what we could do,
Just you and me, yea-eah!

Let's stir it up!
Little darlin', stir it up!
Oh, come on, woman!
Little darlin', come on!  Stir it up.  ...
Little darlin'.

I'll push the wood, blaze the fire;
Satisfy your heart desire.
I'll a-stir it, yeah - every minute, yeah!
All you got to do, honey, Keep it in it.

Let's stir it up!
Little darlin', let's stir it up!
Little darlin', stir it up!
Oh, wo - wo - wo - wo-ah, li'l darlin'.  Lead up now.


g. I'M HURTING INSIDE
(Bob Marley)

When I was just a little child,
'Appiness was there awhile.
Then from me it slipped one day:
'Appiness, come back, I say,
'Cause if you don't come - come,
I go looking, yeah! -
For 'appiness.
'Cause if you don't come - come,
I go looking now! -
For 'appiness.

Then together like school children,
Then your hurt was just in vain.
Lord, I'm your weary child:
'Appiness, come back.   Oh, I -
'Cause if you don't come
Gonna go lookin', yeah! -
For 'appiness.
And if you don't come,
Gonna go lookin', yeah! -
For 'appiness.
Like Jah said, I'm a-hurtin' inside;
I'm a-hurtin' inside.