So Jah Seh
Original Song: “So Jah Seh”
Album: Natty Dread
Label: Tuff Gong/Island
Year: 1974
So Jah seh,
“Not one of my seeds
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg bread.”
(No, they can’t and you know that they won’t!)
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
(Psalm 37:25)
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
(Isaiah 41:17)
So Jah seh,
“Not one of my seeds
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg your bread.”
(No, they can’t and you know that they won’t!)
“And verily, verily, I’m saying unto thee, ‘I
Inite oneself and love Imanity.’”
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
(John 8:51)
‘Cause puss and dog they get together:
What’s wrong with loving one another?
Puss and dog they get together:
What’s wrong with you my brother?
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
(John 15:12)
So Jah seh,
“Ye are the sheep of my pasture;
So verily, thou shall be very well.”
So Jah seh – yeah! -
“Ye are the sheep of my pasture;
So verily, thou shall be very well,”
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
(Psalm 100:3)
And down here in the ghetto,
And down here we suffer.
But I’n'I hang on in there
And I’n'I, I naw let go;
I’n'I a-hang on in there
and I’n'I, I naw let go.
For so Jah seh
“I’m gone to prepare a place,
That where I am thou shall abide,”
So Jah seh,
“Fear not for mighty dread,
‘Cause I’ll be there at your side.”
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
(John 14:2-3)
And – and down there – down there in the ghetto -
And down there we suffer
But I’n'I a-hang on in there
And I’n'I, I naw let go.
But I’n'I a-hang on in there
And I’n'I, I naw let go;
- So Jah seh.
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
(Jeremiah 42:11)
