[Verse 1]

If you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

Cook your rice and peas and no give him none

And him haffi long fi the bun bone

Badman gun put down

[Verse 2]

If you want to see badman gun put down

(make him hungry)

If you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

Tell the people them a country no bother come

When coronation empty him haffi run

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[Verse 3]

You cannot war until your belly full

You cannot war until your belly full

You cannot war till your belly full

For if you hungry you haffi find food

Hungry man can't fight war at all

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[Verse 4]

For if you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

Take out your bible and start to read

Exodus twenty obey my ways

Him haffi give praise ises iya

[Verse 5]

If you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

If you want to see badman gun put down

Tell him grandmother no wash him blood clothes

Him haffi wear the blood up on the road

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[Verse 6]

If you want to see badman gun put down

Take your [?] and clap him pon him nose

And don't him feel like you wet him with hose

Badman gun put down

[Verse 7]

If you want to see badman gun put down

Take a cow cod lace him cross him back

And then him feel him have heart attack

Badman gun put down

[Verse 8]

If you want to see badman gun put down

Get a scotch bonnet and bus in a him eye

And him haffi praise Selassie I

Badman gun put down...