Intro:
Our children are the future and the future is our children.
So we’ve got to guide and protect them.
Jah say teach the children and feed them but never mislead them.
For theirs is the Kingdom of The Most High
Hotta Flames say

Verse 1:
We have got to make a way for the children
Tell me if we go astray who will help them
‘Cause living in the world today
It’s not hard for the youths to stray
Don’t aggravate the problem.

Chorus:
You got to set an example, lead the youths
Set an example, teach them the truth
Set an example, show dem the roots
Tell me what kind of man invent child abuse
Set an example, lead the youths
Set an example, teach them the truth
Set an example, show dem the roots
If we can’t lead them tell me what’s the use.

Verse 2:
And everyday you sit down ‘pon de corner
When you could be somewhere doing anything you wanna
All you wanna do is just smoke marijuana
Never set a future for your son nor your daughter
And now your life is just stress and strife
Your brother pass a joke, you juck him with a knife
Left your baby mother all alone, she’s raising five
And that aint no easy life

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Verse 3:
So let me talk to the fathers and the mothers now
Don’t be like those careless others now
Nuff thanks you’ve got to give
For the youths you’ve got to live for
Let them see your true colours now
‘Cause you must remember they are watching you
Seeing every single little thing you do
You know that so don’t play you getting screw
When they turn out to be just like you

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