Jamaican Herbsman / People Get Ready

Jamaican Herbsman/People Get Ready

Jamaican herbsman living in the hills

Stay red now

Smoke the grass until it makes you red now

Stay high now

Smoke the grass until it makes you high now

It will make you high,

High high high

Well high

And red red red

Red

Sometimes men call it ishen

It makes your eyes shine

Sometimes men call it callie

Technically

And sometimes men call it lambsbread

Or the healing of the nations

And they sip it from the kings cup

And give thanks and praises

Whilst it blazes

Jamaican herbsman living in the hills

Stay red now

Smoke the grass until it makes you red now

Stay high now

Smoke the grass until it makes you high now

It will make you high,

High high high

Well high

And red red red

Red

People get ready

For the time is at hand

Time to move along

Time to move right along

Without baggage

And without cursing

People get ready

For the time is at hand

Time to move along

Time to move right along

No baggage no baggage no baggage sir

No cursing no cursing no cursing madam

People get ready

For the time is at hand

LaLaLaLaLa

(words by Congo Ashanti Roy/Winston Rodney/Richard K Isaacs, arranged by Sangat)