I say the people of Handsworth, that One wash the other so they say So let's join hands my Make the way for our (our children, our children) And their (their children, their children) Ensuring that they get fair share of... Equality... Doesn't justice for all justice stand for all Doesn't justice for all mankind We find putting us down us, crowning us, crowning us, crowning us A of Evil, OH, OH Handsworth means us the Black means us the Black People We're now. Speaking Jah Jah language!
It's a long, long way coming from To send this across, across Its hidden, forbidden, concealed, unrevealed Its got to come out In the open -
BABYLON IS BABYLON IS
It was foolish to build It on the Handsworth shall stand, firm - Jah rock - back We beggars are now choosers No to be losers Striving forward ambition And if it takes We in Handsworth revolution
town, dread town, dread town, Dread town, town, dread town,
we are for a cause Deprived of things Experienced laws Hatred brings We know what got to offer We know going on Don't want no Cause there is still convicted Poor wage, hard Babylon prospers And humble They are in south of Africa One Black represent all, all over the Can't bear it no Blessed power Of Jah We get stronger And we conquer And forward ever, and never Handsworth Handsworth Revolution Revo- Revo- Revo- Revo- Revo- Revolution Revo- Revo- Revo- Revolution