Bob Marley Small Axe Album `african Herbsman` Lyrics

Small Axe   Album `african Herbsman` Lyrics

Why boasteth thyself 

 Oh, evil men 

 Playing smart 

 And not being clever? 

 I said, you're working iniquity 

 To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so) 

 But the goodness of Jah, Jah 

 I-dureth for-I-ver 

  

 So if you are the big tree 

 We are the small axe 

 Ready to cut you down (well sharp) 

 To cut you down 

  

 These are the words 

 Of my master, keep on tellin' me 

 No weak heart 

 Shall prosper 

 And whosoever diggeth a pit 

 Shall fall in it, fall in it 

 And whosoever diggeth a pit 

 Shall fall in it (... fall in it) 

  

 If you are the big tree, let me tell you that 

 We are the small axe, sharp and ready 

 Ready to cut you down (well sharp) 

 To cut you down 

  

 (To cut you down) 

  

 (To cut you down) 

  

 These are the words 

 Of my master, tellin' me that 

 No weak heart 

 Shall prosper 

 And whosoever diggeth a pit 

 Shall fall in it, uh, bury in it 

 And whosoever diggeth a pit 

 Shall bury in it, uh (... bury in it) 

  

 If you are the big, big tree 

 We are the small axe 

 Ready to cut you down (well sharp) 

 To cut you down 

 If you are the big, big tree, let me tell you that 

 We are the small axe 

 Ready to cut you down (well sharp) 

 To cut you down 

 Sharpened