Bob Marley & The Wailers - Small Axe (original)
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Playing smart, and not being clever?
Proverbs 15:33
I said, youre working iniquity
To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
Psalms 52:1; Ps. 94:4; Proverbs 22:8; Isaiah 59:4; Jeremiah 2:5
But the goodness of Jah Jah
I-dureth for I-ver
Psalm 106:1
So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
Matthew 3:10
These are the words
Of my master, keep on tellin' me
No weak heart, shall prosper
Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 54:17
Hey! Whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, fall in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it (fall in it)
Proverbs 26:27; Prov. 28:10; Ecclesiastes 10:8
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..
Note:
This song, released in 1973, was re-recorded later in 1973.It is also called Small Axe.
It was later covered by Gladiators in 1982.
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