Tell them tell them,
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Tell them the reason why you crying children
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Tell them, tell them tell them the
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Reason why you shed those tears
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(rep.)
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If I never did right or if I
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ever did wrong, wrong, wrong,
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It's because situation arise
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Where things don't seem to belong
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Trial and crosses are always
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Before me thorns and prickles
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in-a my way, my way, my way,
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With the task-master always
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Behind me, waiting for a chance
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To take my life away.
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And my burdens, they're getting
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Heavy and heavier every day
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My burdens, I'm like one who
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Labours without no pay
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My burdens sweating like a slave to live another day
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My burdens, if I didn't follow my
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Mind I would be gone astray.
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For silver and gold have I none have I none
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Silver and Gold have I none have I none
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Silver, silver, silver and Gold have I none, have I none
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Silver and gold have I none have I none.
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So wont you tell them tell them
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Tell them the reason why you crying children.
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Tell them, tell them, tell them the
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Reason why you shed those tears
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(rep.)
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Working round the clock and obeying
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The gong is like the weak who's
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Got to feed the strong
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I got to carry my load like a
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Child of Israel battering and
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Dragging along, along, along.
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Blessed is the man who keepeth
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his faith, and hope for the
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day of his great Redemption
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to get away from grief and hate
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And into the joys of the sweet liberations.
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Slave driver, dry bone crying in the wilderness
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Slave driver, only muscle and blood can stand the test (rep.)
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Moses Children I know was
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In shadows of death the shadows a death
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But Moses Children, they rose from strength to strength. (rep.)
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Moses Children
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Bunny Wailer |