It was a dark
and cold winter's night
All the dreadlocks and the barley
did wrap up tight
Nobody on the street,
them all in the blues
Some a wear crepes and
some a wear shoes
The barman hat, the sound just a drop
The drum and the bass
just a tear down the place
And the man and the woman
just a wind them waist
Nobody would chat, nobody would talk
All you could see was the ganja spark
Pepsi is a pound, spirit is two
It's a special reduction just for you
So a lighter match, everyone still
Except ing those
that just don't care
Dem a smoke sensei and Lebanese
Inna the blues was a very tight squeeze
The doctor a laugh
cause the herbits a laugh
but the rizzla still going round
Every man, every woman
just a do lovers
rock and the sun only just gone down
When boof, boof pon the door
everyone just freeze like
the nail to the floor
Boof, boof pon the door
everyone stop dancing by the score
Everyone out the spliff,
everyone hide the jaw
Everyone straight like the
ready fi war,
operator jack up, the lights turn on
The noise in the blues just hush to a calm,
young picnic
afraid they might get a rest
Cause if the mother know,
she bust their chest,
big man just a think about said situation
Dem come to wave no bad a ration,
all of a sudden a total confusion
and the door kicked down
like a explosion
Lord, the blues get ready
Boy, the blues get ready
Lord, the blues get ready
Boy, the blues get ready
The paper next morning had it all wrong
All because of Babylon's song
Saturday in the ten, overnight
And suspicion of try
ing to cause a fight
What a joke, what a laugh,
what a blasted lie
I wish you people would
open up your eye,
see the fact, not the fiction,
tell the truth as it is
And don't bother bribe your juries,
it was half past one, not 4 .30
Black and white in the blues with me,
yes we had Lebanese and Sensei
Some drink booze, some drink Marbe,
some a sell flesh to earn some money
But that's not a thing
don't concern me,
and all of a sudden come the CID
Dem lift down me door and
hear my prophecy
My Lord, the blues get rid
Boy, the blues get rid
Lord, the blues get rid
Boy, the blues get rid
Me lion
You know you say the blues get rid