Song: People Get Ready ~~ 1997 ~~ 4:38
Artist: Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
LP/CD: Fallen Is Babylon ~~ Virgin ~~ 1997
Composer: Curtis Mayfield

Also recorded by: (1) The Impressions (2) Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck

Raggamuffin DJ, raggamuffin and swing
Ragga praise Jah Jah
Raggamuffin in the dancehall, nice up every day
(Lord have mercy)
Raggamuffin DJ, raggamuffin and swing
Ragga, ragga run the dance, ragga run every day
(People get ready all)

People get ready
There’s a train a comin’
You don’t need no baggage
You just get on board

All you need is fate
Till you hear the diesel hummin’
Don’t need no ticket
You just thank the Lord

People get ready (Get ready)
For the train to Jordan (Get ready for the Jordan train)
Pickin’ up passengers
From coast to coast

Fate is the key
Open the doors and board them
There’s hope for all
Among the love the most

(Get ready)
(Get ready)

There ain’t no room
For the hopeless sinners (Who has hurt all mankind)
Who would hurt all mankind (Just to save his own soul)
Just to save their own

Have pity on those
Whose chances grows thinner
There ain’t no hiding place (There ain’t no hiding place)
From the Kingdom’s throne

Everyone get ready ‘cause the train to Jordan is comin’, baby (Choo choo)
I will only be the one to run to want to stay on, oh, yeah (Choo choo)
I’ve got to get my people on the way (Choo choo)
Born to be, ???? on the train ???
I’m saying yeah, yeah, yeah

I said ey
People get ready Jordan train is coming
And if you listen good you hear the diesel hummin’
Ain’t no room for you if you been comin’ to sin
You hurt all mankind and your chance is slim
Fate is your only key, open the doors, let me in
From the Father there is no escapin’
Leave out the drummer, make the bass and riddim

(There’s a train, there’s a train comin’)
(People get on board) Yeah, yeah
(There’s a train, there’s a train comin’) Yeah
(People get on board) Yeah, yeah

People get ready
There’s a train a comin’ (Don’t need no baggage)
You don’t need no baggage (You just get on board)
You just get on board

All you need is fate
Till you hear the diesel hummin’ (Don’t need no ticket)
Don’t need no ticket (You just thank the Lord)
You just thank the Lord

(There’s a train, there’s a train comin’)
(People get on board) Yeah
(There’s a train, there’s a train comin’) Yeah, yeah
(People get on board)

There ain’t no room
For the hopeless sinners (Who would hurt all mankind)
Who would hurt all mankind (Just to save his own soul)
Just to save their own, yeah

Have pity on those
Whose chances grow thinner
There ain’t no hiding place (There ain’t no hiding place)
From the Kingdom’s throne

Well, if you listen good you can hear that train
Choo (Choo choo) choo
Oh, comin’ down to the valley or down to the land
Choo choo (Choo choo) choo choo
I tell you, if you listen good you can hear that train
To the valley or down to the land
If you listen good you can hear that train
Choo choo (Choo choo) choo choo

Now if you listen good you can hear that train
Comin’ down the valley or down to the land
Where the storm, stormy weather is usually like rain
Well, if you listen good you catch this train to your rain
If you listen good, well, you can hear that train
The choo choo choo choo choo choo train
If you listen good, oh, you can hear that train
Choo choo for everyone again and again

Transcribed by: Char Star
Uploaded on: April 6, 1999