Peace Cry lyrics - (performed by George Nooks, Beris Hammond, Bounti Killer, Junior Kelly, Richie Stephens, Morgan Heritage, Tony Rebel, Nitty Kutchie)

[Intro: Bounty Killer, George Nooks & Richie Stephens]

[Bounty Killer:] Ay yo yallo! Why kill each other when we still have no food?

[Richie Stephens:] Crying for peace

[George Nooks:] Oh no it's been happening

[Richie Stephens:] Yeah

[George Nooks:] And we don't want no more war yeah

[Richie Stephens:] No more war

[George Nooks:] We don't want no more war yeah

[Chorus: George Nooks (Beres Hammond)]

Tribal war (Tribal war) we don't want no more a dat (We don't want no want no want no want no more)

Tribal war (Tribal war) a nuh dat we have today (A nuh dat a nuh dat a nuh dat a nuh dat... seen)

(Beres!)

[Beres Hammond:]

Tell me why the eastside nuh lex up with the westside

Why the ghetto people never happy with the ones dem uptown?

Why is it the countryman nuh try to know man from Kingstontown?

And it's those same bad diseases spreading round and round

Everyone is so cold, ah yeah, now now now now now, yeah

(Dem seh weh deh go?

[Bounty Killer:]

You know something? Big up di peace and not di war cause we comin from a far

Remember when we use to par foot to put it pon di tar

Now yuh drivin in yuh car bussin up yuh SLR

Rob di shop and rob di bar, but hold it down nuh star

Likkle shotta yo fi cool yuh know

Slappy triiga happy yuh fi put down all di tool yuh know

Blood it just a run yuh like a river on a pool yuh know

Killin off yuh brotha and yuh sistas like a fool yuh know fool yuh know

[Junior Kelly:]

Peace we a deal wid inna this time (This time)

Pon di back and a di frontline (Frontline)

And if a war we bun di slave time (Slave time)

Kelly shout, we nuh waan nuh borderline

Yo mr. man deh wid di tek nine (Tek nine)

Nuh come yah so come blow nuh carbine (Carbine)

Love we a deal wid inna this time (This time)

Well Richie Stephens come sing di next line

[Richie Stephens:]

Tell di shotta dem hold it down, we nuh waan nuh gunshot no more no more no more no more

Hold it down, we nuh waan nuh gunshot no more

Tell di police dem cool it down, we nuh waan nuh bloodshed no more no more no more no more

Hold it down, we nuh waan nuh bloodshed no more

[Peter of Morgan Heritage:]

Morgan Heritage a seh, life forever more we ago bring down death, yes, yes

Life it is for jah and rastafari bless, yes, yes

Blood in the streets we don't need that, we are all one blood we got to know that yeah

[Gramps from Morgan Heritage:]

For everyone come together in unity

[Peter from Morgan Heritage:]

Tony Rebel sing!

[Tony Rebel:]

So whether di police or di badman kill di man seh dat a murder

Nuh mek nuh difference even if yuh a soldier

Di senseless killin, dem nuh tink must be over

Caan tun yah so a Vietnam or Yugoslava

Look like di man dem like to work wid di morge

And kill of black people like seh dem a dog

Don't waan nuh excuse, bout seh times hard

Tell dem Nitty Kutchie dem peace sign a press on

[Nitty Kutchie:]

Why are you so blind to see? the one we hurt are you and me

Me and you and you for me, that's the way it should be

[Chorus: George Nooks (Beres Hammond)]

Tribal war (Tribal war) we don't want no more a dat (We don't want no want no want no want no more)

Tribal war (Tribal war) a nuh dat we have today (A nuh dat a nuh dat a nuh dat a nuh dat... seen)