[Joseph Talking]
Hail, to the Most High God, Jah Rastafari
Crown Him with many a crowns
Kings of Kings and Lords of Lords
The Conquering Lion, Tribe of Judah
.. Haile Selassie. Selah
[Verse 1]
They just a stretch them neck
Across the fences
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
They just a stretch them neck
Across the fences
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
You have got to be clean inside
You have got to be united
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
You have got to have charity
And love within your heart
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Can't be no prostitute living
You have got to be clean and upful and right
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Can't be grudgeful nah red eye
Nah licky-licky nah eat swine
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
[Joseph Talking]
Ja is powerful, Jah is eternal
He say he shall come in a new name
Which shall sound the terrible and dreadful among men
His name is Jah, Rastafari
Who lit all lightning who shook and tremble all earth
You've got to have a stretch out hand
To receive in your strange brother
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
The thing can't be too small
To share amongst your brother
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
I would even be a footmat in Mount Zion
And lay down
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
I will beat my drum
And I will sit on the sand on the listening shore of Jamaica
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
They took me from Africa
And leave us here on a pirate boat
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
My children, children, children
Shall give a testimony of His life
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
We'll beat salvation drum from shore to shore
From door to door
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Iration drum is not a seed on the rich man table
But on the table of the poor
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Lickle Dread, Selassie I
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Sound ye the trumpet of Zion
That the inhabitants of Earth may see it
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
It's not a big song
Neither a small song, Irie
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
It's not a jigsaw
Neither a puzzle
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Me no have fi have no spliff
Me no have fi have no pipe
[Chorus]
Just to see when the Rastaman a come
Rastaman a Come was written by J. Hill.