Got the news from the whispering trees
This is the time when man must be freed

No more burning in vain
All we lose we'll have to gain


Get ready children please
Get ready children please
Get ready children please


Didn't I build the cabin
Didn't I plant the corn

Didn't my people keep holy
Slave to this country


Get ready children please
Get ready children please
Get ready children please



My sermon it was billed for freedom

The good Lord said son you're a free man
I'm gonna talk that freedom talk
Let me see you walk that freedom walk


When yah gets ready, children please
Get ready children please

Get ready children please

A tell yah, got the news from a whispering tree

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