BANTON

Story teller from the ancient cellar

Keeper of the legend and the Kushite dweller

Angel ah talk when the griot ah whisper

And the rain it ah fall, no umbrella

Words of wisdom like a boat and propeller

Ancient talk coming like an acapella

Roots tea bubble with the great sarsaparilla

Be true to your word, in your cerebella

Biggest tree yo I could ah fell ah

We ah small axe and we bust like Fela

Ras to the bone mi nuh inna no novela

High up in the mountain snow like Sierra

Drum and bass coming like a real guerilla

Liberation sound, warrior no vanilla

Coded speech like the ancient pillar

Boaz and Joachim enigma…

We are the banton, we are the banton

Anywhere we go yeah we are the Banton

We are the Banton Ras are Banton

Yeah, African Banton

18 Pharaoh’s sat upon the golden throne

Ethiopian Kushite built way before Rome

Where Memnon and Emathion were born

Rulers of Arabia remember your home

Land where the Gods live no Olympian zone

Cepheus and Cassopoeia, rulers of old

Empress Candace, rulers of Syrian town

All the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indus Nile ground

Azanian race is the same Bantu now

Son of Vulcan down there yeah, Priest Manetho

Land of sunburnt people so Hesiod spoke

Tall and handsome, longest livers

Rasta hold the crown…