RAS SAM BROWN MYSTIC, POET, ORATOR, SAINT, PAINTER

I was blessed to spend many a days reasoning with both Sam Brown and Mortimo Planno.
Ras Sam Brown photographed at the home of Robert Nesta.
56 Hope Road. Kingston. Jamaica. 1980.
Photograph © Lindsay Oliver Donald

 

 

Ras Brown is one of the most complex personalities within the Rastafarian movement. He combines in his person the attributes of a mystic, poet, orator, saint, painter, and what a government official called “a lovable rascal.” In his presence at one given moment, one feels free and relaxed, and in the next moment tense and frightened. Since the early beginnings of the movement he has...

been one of the most ardent Rastafarians and is today one of its most important poets, if not the best. Born in the parish of Trelawny in 1925, he attended the local elementary school and was so brilliant a student that it is reported he won a scholarship to a prestigious secondary school in Kingston, but failed to accept the offer because of poverty. After working at various trades he became interested in printing. By 1965, when the author [Leonard E. Barrett, Sr., THE RASTAFARIANS] met him, he was without a job and was the leader of a group of brethren in Back-O-wall. He told the author how vividly he remembered the night he heard Marcus Garvey in Edelweise Park, when he was only five years of age-a mere tot brought by his mother who was a member of the Garvey movement.

 

 

Judgement ~ Ras Sam Brown
Judgement
I pick up a Star the other day
When I reach page 9...
It cause dismay
I said my God
America mad
Being a Rastamon for that I am glad
Big bold to proclaim
Los Angeles
City of the Angel
300,000 homosexuals march
Is that fame
Or is it shame
Mayors, teachers, bull dikes, ____, pastors an priests
Everyone stan for the mark of the beast
Men dressed in nun's clothes
Them that them shall in perfect indulgence
Read Romans 1
They have got no defense
Down there gwaan to get up stand
Sodomy must be radicated
From every land
All men went their evil way
Incurable disease is their place

I pick up a Star the other day
When I reach page 9
It cause dismay
I said my God
America mad
Being a Rastamon for that I am glad
Big bold to proclaim
Los Angeles
City of the Angel
300,000 homosexuals march
Is that fame
Or is it shame
Mayors, teachers, bull dikes, ____, pastors an priests
Everyone stan for the mark of the beast
Men dressed in nun's clothes
Them that them shall in perfect indulgence
Read Romans 1
They have got no defense
Down there gwaan to get up stand
Sodomy must be radicated
From every land
All men went their evil way
Incurable disease is their place

I pick up a Star the other day
When I reach page 9
It cause dismay
I said my God
America mad
Being a Rastamon for that I am glad
Big bold to proclaim
Los Angeles
City of the Angel
300,000 homosexuals march
Is that fame
Men dressed in nun's clothes
Them that them shall in perfect indulgence
Read Romans 1
They have got no defense
Down there gwaan to get up stand
Sodomy must be radicated
From every land
All men went their evil way
Incurable disease is their place

 

ABORTION ~RAS SAM BROWN
O terrible sin abortion! It is the worst of all
Eight letters spell the deadly sin, so is downfall
The wickedness of murderess destroy the yet unborn...
They never gave the seed a chance to see creation's Morn.
There are many who defend such acts based on economy
Heartless creatures-if they had been aborted-they'd be non-entities
It is said man should multiply, he should replenish earth
Yet in the eyes of wicked men, the unborn is of no worth.
It is given to man to use all things, yet life is God's control
If God had aborted First Man, there wouldn't be a living soul
Some shades of people take hormones, they try to live forevever
Yet for the other shades of men, destrucion is their endeavor
The earth create with broad expanse that men should be prolific
But the crude acts of the seeming wise, prove men's minds are sick
When the enemies are at thy gates, thine offsprings are arrows in thy bows
With thy large united house, the enemies are laid low
Some people love their people, they control food not birth
From the born to the yet unborn each has a place on earth
So it is for all to shun such acts that man may live his days
Dread repercussion shall be their lot for persistence in evil ways.

 

#15 Beat Them ~ Ras Sam Brown
Beat them
Leave the street
Come into beat...
Beat them
Beat them
Wait a minute
Beat them
Beat them
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Let the wicked them run
Beat them
Beat them
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Let the wicked them run
Beat
Ah run come help me beat the drum
Ah run come help me beat the drum
Oh in the night
No brother got no fight
Beat the drum an make we all unite
Beat

In 1913 The Rastafarian came
With an ancient but new philosophy
He told mankind
That God must rule
His government His theocracy
The Rastamon come
To wipe out important religions
We are those come to banish fear
An free the minds of man
The isle of Jamaica
There originate
From the dust of nothing else
They were hounded harrassed an murdered
For that stand through the test
Our name an fame
Throughout every land
____ _____ _____
We make your stand
To manifest
The brotherhood of man
Beat them
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Beat the drum
Let the wicked them run
Wait a minute
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them
Beat them'

 

#16 Natty March ~ Ras Sam Brown
Today man
Is engaged in conferences
Trying to find a solution...
They will have to return
What is not their's
That is the only conclusion
Religion can not escape the word of truth
Neither stand it or dispute
Rastafari Theocracy
Now tells the world the truth
Religion seeming piousness
Mark the hearts of ____
They do the most immoral things
Modern Sodom and Gomorrah
The people they mislead
Eventually reaps their own
Those saints that passed as men of God
So much afraid to die
They should be glad to go to heaven
With angel's wings they'll fly
History proves
Pastors and Priests
Are mafia and pirates
They rob and kill without fear
For each is of their flock
They do not have a care
Woe's to the pastors
That mislead the sheep
Of they're deeds we're aware
Rastafari Theocracy
Comes to smash the canker
An banish religious fear
Rastafari cannot be _____
We are here to Rastacize the earth
An enquiring man
One God One Faith One Birth
Hopes an_____
Gratifying flesh
They are weapons of destruction
They decimate
An kill innocent ___
Without the least combunciton
We cannot fight war
To bring forth peace
That is a fallacy
From the art of divine Creation
Revenge will never be
Man will have to discard such fantasy
To set his spirit free
For again this downpression
Sometimes words go ___
With numerous conferences and parties
There is still
To find of a solution
Colonization and stabilization
Has brought rich nations poor
They are now battering on they're door
They will not take no more
The money being spent on arms
Would have best been funded on food
Warmongers of earth
Your arms cannot save
They put the people in angry mood
Man is a ___ ____
____ _____ no one can tell
Daniels books are prophetic words
That predicted the doom of man
For despite the apocolypse an plans
They will not be able to stand.