Lash me hard

Punch me below the belt

Bob, Pete and Bunny

Sooth me when am sad

Help me to be glad

Let your magic be felt

All over my body

Try me in your dancehall courts

Drag me through Kingston’s ghettos

Fling your rhythms at me

Indoctrinate me with Ethiopian dogma

Smoke me with your bongos

Come Sly and Robbie; whip me with your dub

I don’t care if it’s Dekker’s Ska

Dawn’s ‘Steady or Yellow’s Rants

Just serve them with positivity

No daggering, knives and cartels

Serve me that dish without diss

Give me reggae on the roots!