Soldiers Lyrics

The song Soldiers is performed by Steel Pulse in the album named Rastafari Centennial: Live in Paris - Elysee Montmartre in the year 1992 .



Dutallee!
Dutallee!
Dutallee!
Dutallee!

And when soldiers came
Them say them come to make us tame
And from that day until now on
We were jeered and laughed to scorn

Things used to be ire (before the soldiers came)
Things used to be nice, so nice now
Things used to be ire
Things used to be nice, so nice

Our country them did enter, yeah
Troops trodding left right and centre
Everywhere
One moment at peace with Nature
Now victims of a ma*sacre
We got our spears
We got our shields
But their guns were greater
Prepare for a slaughter

Give I back I witch doctor
Give I back I Black Ruler
Me no want no dictator
Me no want no tyrant on yah

Dutallee!
Dutallee!
Dutallee!
Dutallee!

Way down in Africa
Where the backra still rules day after day
The Black Man is suffering now far more
Than when he was a slave
Is there a need for war?
No.
Peace my bredren - here them bawl
Bodies in mutilated condition
Faces scarred beyond recognition
Is this what civilization means to me?
Then without it I prefer to be
So...

Give I back I witch doctor
Give I back I Black Ruler
Me no want no dictator
Me no want no tyrant on yah

Dutallee!
Dutallee!
Dutallee!
Dutailee!



Steel Pulse - Rastafari Centennial: Live in Paris - Elysee Montmartre

Sep 1992

  1. State Of Emergency
  2. Roller Skates
  3. K.K.K.
  4. Blues Dance Raid
  5. Taxi Driver
  6. Soldiers
  7. Steppin' Out
  8. Chant A Psalm
  9. Gang Warfare
  10. Stay Wid De Ridim
  11. Makka Medley: Makka Splaff/Drug Squad/Handsworth Revolution
  12. Ravers (Includes Dungeons)
  13. Rally Round
  14. Reprise

Soldiers