Beres Hammond Peace Cry
[Intro: Bounty Killer, George Nooks & Richie Stephens]
[Bounty Killer:] Ay yo yallo! Why kill each other when
we still have no food?
[Richie Stephens:] Crying for peace
[George Nooks:] Oh no it's been happening
[Richie Stephens:] Yeah
[George Nooks:] And we don't want no more war yeah
[Richie Stephens:] No more war
[George Nooks:] We don't want no more war yeah
[Chorus: George Nooks (Beres Hammond)]
Tribal war (Tribal war) we don't want no more a dat (We
don't want no want no want no want no more)
Tribal war (Tribal war) a nuh dat we have today (A nuh
dat a nuh dat a nuh dat a nuh dat... seen)
(Beres!)
[Beres Hammond:]
Tell me why the eastside nuh lex up with the westside
Why the ghetto people never happy with the ones dem
uptown?
Why is it the countryman nuh try to know man from
Kingstontown?
And it's those same bad diseases spreading round and
round
Everyone is so cold, ah yeah, now now now now now, yeah
(Dem seh weh deh go?
[Bounty Killer:]
You know something? Big up di peace and not di war
cause we comin from a far
Remember when we use to par foot to put it pon di tar
Now yuh drivin in yuh car bussin up yuh SLR
Rob di shop and rob di bar, but hold it down nuh star
Likkle shotta yo fi cool yuh know
Slappy triiga happy yuh fi put down all di tool yuh
know
Blood it just a run yuh like a river on a pool yuh know
Killin off yuh brotha and yuh sistas like a fool yuh
know fool yuh know
[Junior Kelly:]
Peace we a deal wid inna this time (This time)
Pon di back and a di frontline (Frontline)
And if a war we bun di slave time (Slave time)
Kelly shout, we nuh waan nuh borderline
Yo mr. man deh wid di tek nine (Tek nine)
Nuh come yah so come blow nuh carbine (Carbine)
Love we a deal wid inna this time (This time)
Well Richie Stephens come sing di next line
[Richie Stephens:]
Tell di shotta dem hold it down, we nuh waan nuh
gunshot no more no more no more no more
Hold it down, we nuh waan nuh gunshot no more
Tell di police dem cool it down, we nuh waan nuh
bloodshed no more no more no more no more
Hold it down, we nuh waan nuh bloodshed no more
[Peter of Morgan Heritage:]
Morgan Heritage a seh, life forever more we ago bring
down death, yes, yes
Life it is for jah and rastafari bless, yes, yes
Blood in the streets we don't need that, we are all one
blood we got to know that yeah
[Gramps from Morgan Heritage:]
For everyone come together in unity
[Peter from Morgan Heritage:]
Tony Rebel sing!
[Tony Rebel:]
So whether di police or di badman kill di man seh dat a
murder
Nuh mek nuh difference even if yuh a soldier
Di senseless killin, dem nuh tink must be over
Caan tun yah so a Vietnam or Yugoslava
Look like di man dem like to work wid di morge
And kill of black people like seh dem a dog
Don't waan nuh excuse, bout seh times hard
Tell dem Nitty Kutchie dem peace sign a press on
[Nitty Kutchie:]
Why are you so blind to see? the one we hurt are you
and me
Me and you and you for me, that's the way it should be
[Chorus: George Nooks (Beres Hammond)]
Tribal war (Tribal war) we don't want no more a dat (We
don't want no want no want no want no more)
Tribal war (Tribal war) a nuh dat we have today (A nuh
dat a nuh dat a nuh dat a nuh dat... seen)