It's slippery out there How you mean Brand-new tune coming from the flick of my wrist So all you gotta do is play this little disk 'cause I would tell ya Do it ♪ It's slippery out there It's the tribe out there The barber man don't like the dreadlocks man The dreadlocks man don't like the barber man, no But I-man sat up on the mountaintop Watching Babylon burning red-hot, red-hot War inna Babylon Tribal war inna Babylon It's slippery out there You know the tribe out there War inna Babylon Tribal war inna Babylon It's slippery out there You know the tribe out there When come pride then cometh shame, yeah A man pride shall bring him low, yeah, oh-yeah Man shall uphold the humbling spirit And you know that it's true, oh yes War inna Babylon Tribal war inna Babylon It's slippery out there You know the tribe out there War inna Babylon Tribal war inna Babylon It's slippery out there You know the tribe out there 'Cause there's a war inna Babylon And me say Babylon a hooligan And the Babylon a hooligan Then ya Babylon, a baby wrong Some of dem a-slip, an' a-hop And a-widdly-widdly bop and a-gwan like a big, big shot Then when the money run out and dem can't get a bligh And you end up in a big, big knot Babylon a-make little sense and a-squeeze every cent And a-gwan like dem made outta iron But when the people dem learn And you must get burn from the seal of the conquering lion How you mean? A little collaboration stylee I would tell you all A-from the very, very top to the very last drop War inna Babylon Tribal war inna Babylon It's slippery out there The tribe out there War inna Babylon Tribal war inna Babylon It's slippery out there The tribe out there (oh no) War inna Babylon, war inna Babylon War inna Babylon, war inna Babylon War inna Babylon, war inna Babylon War inna Babylon, war inna Babylon War inna Babylon