The Heathen

Original Song: “The Heathen”

Album: Exodus

Label: Tuff Gong/Island

Year: 1977

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified

against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them,

concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

(2 Kings 17:15)

Put de heathen back dey, ‘pon de wall!

Rise up fallen fighters;
Rise and take your stance again.
‘Tis he who fight and run away
Live to fight another day.
Put de heathen back dey ‘pon de wall!

As a man sow, shall he reap
And I know that talk is cheap.
But the hotter the battle
A the sweeter Jah victory.
With de heathen back dey ‘pon de wall!

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

(Galatians 6:7)

Put de heathen back dey ‘pon de wall!

Rise up, fallen fighters:
Rise and take your stance again.
‘Tis he who fight and run away
Live to fight another day.

Put de heathen back dey ‘pon de wall!