So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from

He spread his wing in, yes
In foreign countries
He spread his wing
To help foreign people
African American people

So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from

Harlem, Harlem, Harlem
Harlem, Harlem
It was happiness... brightness
You could see that light
Not streetlight, but Garvey
Light
So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from

Yes there was that war
The Italian invading, Ethiopia
And he sent soldiers

So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from

Let's look back on the works
Of Mr. Garvey
Let's look back on the
Improvments of Mr. Garvey
Let's look back on the
Development of Mr. Garvey

So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from
And when he go
To foreign countries
He didn't go to stay
But do a little business
And the return

So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from

It's a shame, his return
Didn't accept him
From the island where he
Come frome
It's a shame, his return
Didn't accept him
From the island where he
Come frome

So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
And they turn their back
Against him
And they criticize him
And they turn their back
Against him
And they criticize him

So we rise up from this
Little island, where reggae
Music spring from
So we rise up from this
Little island, where Marcus
Garvey come from