[Chorus]
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down in Babylon
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down in Babylon
Many are called but few shall be chosen to go to Mount Zion
Many are called but few shall be chosen to go to Mount Zion

[Verse 1]
And it came to pass in the eleventh year
In the first month of the seventh day
The words of Jah came to us, saying
I shall say unto the north "Give up"
And to the south "Keep not back"
Send the chosen sons from afar
And his daughters from the ends of the earth

[Chorus]
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down in Babylon
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down in Babylon
Many are called but few shall be chosen to go to Mount Zion
Many are called but few shall be chosen to go to Mount Zion

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
And it came to pass in the eleventh year
In the first month of the seventh day
The words of Jah came to us, saying
I shall say unto the north "Give up"
And to the south "Keep not back"
Send the chosen sons from afar
And his daughters from the ends of the earth

[Chorus]
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down in Babylon
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down in Babylon
Many are called but few shall be chosen to go to Mount Zion
Many are called but few shall be chosen to go to Mount Zion

[Outro]
I know the truth from deep inside, someday (Huh)
Many careless Ethiopians shall go down, go down, go down
In a Babylon, down in a Babylon
Eighty thousand careless Ethiopians shall go down, go down, go down
If you fall, I don't care
Many of you shall go down in a Babylon