DERECK ROSE: MUSIC
BALDHEAD RASTA
(DERECK ROSE)
ONE DAY THESE FEW WORDS CAME TO ME COMPLETE WITH THE MELODY, "SOME CALL ME A BALDHEAD RASTA" I JUST WORKED THE SONG SLOWLY AND WAITED TO SEE HOW IT WANTED TO MANIFEST ITSELF AND WHAT MESSAGE IT WANTED TO BRING ACROSS, AND I'M PLEASED HOW IT CAME OUT.
SOME CALL ME A BALDHEAD RASTA,
AND SOME CALL ME VAIN
AND SOME A-DEM SAY, AH WONDER WEY HIM COME FROM
HE MUST BE THE MAN WITH NO NAME.
NOSEY EARS AND EYES DEMMA LISTEN AN A-WATCH ME
TRYING FI DISCREDIT, DEMISE AN ACCUSE ME
BUT DEM NUH KNOW, DE INNER STRENGTH OF DIS MILITANT IDREN
NUH HAIR PON HIM HEAD, BUT HAVE JAH JAH INSIDE HIM
I’M A JAMAICAN ORIGINATE FROM A AFRICAN
NOW I MAN WALKING INNA BABYLON.
CHORUS
BUT IT’S LOVE, SWEET LOVE
THAT’S ALL I HAVE TO BRING,
BUT IT’S LOVE, SWEET LOVE
JAH GIVE I MAN A VOICE TO SING.
IT SURPRISE DEM, WHEN DEM HEAR BOUT DIS TITLE
A BALDHEAD RASTA, WITH NO HAIR PON HIM HEAD.
AN SOME A-DEM SAY, A WEY HIM LOCKS GAWN
MAN’S STRENGTH IS NO MORE IN THE LENGTH OF HIS HAIR.
JAMAICAN ROSE, HIM WAS A GOOD CULTIVATOR
A GREEN-FINGERED MAN, WHO REALLY LOVE DE NATURE
PLANT UP HIM YAM, SWEET POTATOE AND CASSAVA
JAH KNOW DAT DEY MAN HIM WAS A GOOD EARTHLY FATHER
MIDDLE CHORUS
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG, TO BE A SPIRITUAL RASTA
EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO HAIR ON YOUR HEAD
CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM, JEWS OR ANY RELIGION
WORSHIP JAH IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH.
SAMSON WAS DE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A RASTA
WHOSE STRENGTH WAS IN THE HAIR UPON IS HEAD
BUT NATTY TEK A FALL, UPON DE STREET OF MORAL WEAKNESS
BETRAYED BY GREEDY DELILAH UPON HER BED
SO DON’T THINK BECAUSE YOU LOCKS, YOU A-RASTA
SOME JUST A-WEARING IT FOR STYLE
IF YOU DID KNOW DE MEANING AND DE VOW OF A NAZARITE
THEN EVERYTHING WOULD BE ALRIGHT.