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Track: Soldiers
Artist: Steel Pulse
Album: Reggae Greats

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Name: Steel Pulse
Spotify Genres: reggae, roots reggae, ragga, rocksteady, dub
Followers: 702,250
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Biography

Roots reggae band, formed in 1975 at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, by David Hinds (lead vocals, guitar), Basil Gabbidon (lead guitar, vocals), and Ronald McQueen (bass). Steve "Grizzly" Nisbett. (15 March 1948 – 18 January 2018), was a drummer for the reggae group Steel Pulse from 1977 to 2001 (aged 69).

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Release: Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Year: 1978
Genres: Reggae
Styles: Roots Reggae

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LYRICS

Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
And when soldiers came
Them say them come to make us tame
And from that day until now on
We were jeered and laughed to scorn

Things used to be ire (before the soldiers came)
Things used to be nice, so nice now
Things used to be ire
Things used to be nice, so nice

Our country them did enter, yeah
Troops trodding left right and centre
Everywhere
One moment at peace with Nature
Now victims of a massacre
We got our spears
We got our shields
But their guns were greater
Prepare for a slaughter

Give I back I witch doctor
Give I back I Black Ruler
Me no want no dictator
Me no want no tyrant on yah

Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!

Way down in Africa
Where the backra still rules day after day
The Black Man is suffering now far more
Than when he was a slave
Is there a need for war?
No.
Peace my bredren - here them bawl
Bodies in mutilated condition
Faces scarred beyond recognition
Is this what civilization means to me?
Then without it I prefer to be
So...

Give I back I witch doctor
Give I back I Black Ruler
Me no want no dictator
Me no want no tyrant on yah

Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
Dutiallee!
Dutialee!