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Dread natty dread now 
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Dreadlock congo bongo I
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Natty dreadlock in a babylon
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A dreadlock congo bongo I
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Children get your culture 
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And don't stay there and gesture
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Oh the battle will be hotter
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And you won't get no supper

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Natty dread, natty dread now
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A dreadlock congo bongo I
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Natty dreadlock in a babylon
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Roots natty roots natty

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Then I walk up the first street
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And then I walk up the second street to see
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Then I trod on thru third street
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And then I talk to some dread on fourth street
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Natty dreadlock in a fifth street
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And then I skip one fence to sixth street
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I've got to reach seventh street
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Natty dreadlock congo bongo I
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Natty dread, natty dread now
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Roots natty congo I
 
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Oh, natty, natty,
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Natty 21,000 miles away from home,
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Oh, natty, natty,
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And that's a long way
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For natty to be from home

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Don't care what the world seh
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I and I couldn't nevergo astray
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Just like a bright and sunny day
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Oh we're gonna have things our way
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Natty dread, natty dreadlock
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Dreadlock congo, bongo I
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Don't care what the world seh
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I and I gonna have things ourway
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If a egg natty in a the red