[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
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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