CULTURE - Get Them Soft (One Stone)

1996--For Joseph,Respect.Written,produced and arranged by Joseph HILL. Joseph Hill, Lead vocals and percussion Albert Walker, Vocals Ire'land Malomo, Vocals Performed by DUB MYSTIC Dean 'Digital' Pond, Drums Anthony 'Lion' Arthur, Bass Ricky 'Swann' Richardson, Guitars Noel 'Barry' Aikens, Keyboards Also featuring Dean Fraser,sax - Chico,trumpet - Nambo Robinson,trombone - Vin Gordon,trombone - Harry T.,percussion - Tony "Asher" Brisset,keyboards. Recorded at Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica Engineered by Fathead Mixed at Lion and Fox Studio, Washington, D.C. Engineered by Jim Fox GET THEM SOFT Look how you chaka chaka and rink and mash up For you nuh hear me wah de Rastaman say Say you nuh fi sniff no cocaine down deh You nuh hear me wah de Rastaman say Say you nuh fi sniff no cocaine down deh The cocaine ah get them off Get them soft, get them soft The cocaine ah get them off Get them soft, get them soft Mi say, the cocaine ah get them off Get them soft, get them soft As them start to sniff the cocaine Them no washing them clothes again Neither clean them boot Neither wash them dirty foot Ah wah happen to you master Look deh round the brethren foot Like no water no deh, but see yah master Go ah river yeah. But look how him mother And father nice and look now him stay sake Ah the little white powder but is wah do the boy master Mama give you one black fowl An it lay one dozen egg And sake ah the little white powder The boy sell it off and start to beg Papa have one big foot truck and Him left it on the will fi you Hindering you from turn a thief or Neither turn a crook Mama walk through dew water And try send you to school So you can learn the golden rule And when you take a stock You deh back a school a rude because Sometimes I sit and wonder I wonder where them ambition gone It seem them ambition turn a dirt Upon a land I wonder where your ambition gone I wonder what you think I wonder what example you setting for the youth What them fi think bout you