Tribute To Garnett Silk - Macka B

Now people always say that the good die young

And we lost another one a' Selassie I’s son

But, although him body might ha' gone

Garnett’s spirit and music

Will always live on

So if you love Garnett Silk

You put you hand hand inna di air

He gave a lotta people happiness and cheer

But Garnett Silk is no longer here

Cut off in the prime of a brilliant career

Him sing about long and cultural things

Him sing about the emperor Selassie I the king

Him sing with so much power and so much feeling

Him buss 'round the scene like a steam engine

Rasta everybody love him

Everyone a-said him was the next king

Even girls inna party

Used to jump and down when di man start sing

So if you love Garnett Silk

You put you hand hand inna di air

He gave a lotta people happiness and cheer

But Garnett Silk is no longer here

Cut off in the prime of a brilliant career

One a' mi favorite Garnett song

A di one called «Zion in a Vision»

Mi love 'ow di sang dat one

'Cause he sing it with a lotta conviction

And I pray dat now him der inna di vision

I pray dat Garnett Silk inna Zion

I pray Selassie I stretch out him hand

And take Garnett Silk to di land

Hey, if you love Garnett Silk

You put you hand hand inna di air

He gave a lotta people happiness and cheer

But Garnett Silk is no longer here

Cut off in the prime of a brilliant

Garnett appear to a lotta reggae fire

Di people did a-call him di reggae messiah

«Hello, Mama Africa», dat was a flyer

Talk «Keep Them Talking» catch di whole place afire

Garnett music I could not refuse it

Inna di record shop mi nuh haffi hear it

Mi jus' say, «Gimme any new Garnett»

Well, if you love Garnett Silk

You put you hand hand inna di air

He gave a lotta people happiness and cheer

But Garnett Silk is no longer here

Cut off in the prime of a brilliant career

It’s another reggae singer

It’s another deejay

Early in their life they ha' passed away

Dem day after day

Nobody knows how dem life a go' stay

So, try right and walk di right way

Try to sing di right song

Mind what you say

Put your trust in di Most High

A him you fi

You might a di kingdom a' Zion

If you love Garnett Silk

You put you hand hand inna di air

He gave a lotta people happiness and cheer

But Garnett Silk is no longer here

Cut off in the prime of a brilliant career