Bongo Town - Prodigal Son

You see I don’t come to cause a controversy, but

I’m just gonna speak some truth from Imperial Majesty

Haile Selassie I, mi Christian brother

Jah-overh Jireh — hear the man say

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (town, town, town)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (now watch this)

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (town, town, town)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (watch this)

Me love the church, but the Christians save

So me start preach the gospel 'pon di highways, the by-ways

Inspired by Haile Selassie

To the Ras them we want bring clarity (boom, now)

Mi love drumming and the ites, gold and green an' (yeah)

Mi love the ital vege and the beans an' (yeah)

Mi love the gesture sey man heart fi clean

Wus mi no nyam, if yuh know whey me mean

A mi no deh ya so fi cause confusion

But did you know that Selassie was a Christian?

Him make the most churches give to the Africans

And bring Orthodox to Jamaicans and say:

«A man without Christ is like a ship without a rudder»

'66, when him land inna Jamaica, people bow down

Him say rise up mi brother: «I'm not God, I am sent by the Father»

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (up a Bobo hill yeah)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (round a Judgement y’all)

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (we a go tek it out a 9 mile)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (a nyabinghi)

A make a trod me and mi brethren dem (yeah)

Nyabinghi a gwaan dung a May Pen

And when mi stop inna the middle a di square

A hear man a bun gays and queers now

Another man a bun a fire 'pon another man

Another man a tell another man him badder than

True mi no Rasta, him say mi no him brother

To Selassie that’s a big contradiction, 'cause

Selassie ano Christ, so a Christ yuh fi honour

Inna passa passa business, Selassie never walla

Rastaman, this is a tough pill fi swallow

But a Jesus Selassie I follow

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (up a Wareika)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (a fire house)

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (so watch this)

The truth hurt, but the truth set you free

Inna Matthew 24, Jah sey: «Listen to me:

When me come again, everybody a go see»

So a couldn’t him land a Norman Manley

A full time we put down the confusion

A house that’s divided just can’t stand

So go read your Bible, go read all or none

It say Jesus a the only Son, me done

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (a dung a Trench Town)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (inna tenement y’all)

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (a up a Judgement y’all)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (a wey you go, a Bobo Hill)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (every corner)

The gospel fi preach dung a bongo town (a just the good news)

The gospel fi preach dung a congo town (Jesus alive)