PRINCE BUSTER: JUDGE DREAD

(You're rough, you're tough, you're rough, you're tough)

"Order, now my court is in session, will you please stand?

First, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Judge Hundred-Years

Some people call me Judge Dread

Now, I have come here to whoop you, to try all you rudeboys

For shooting black people

In my court only we talk, cause I'm vexed, and I am the rudeboy today

[Indecipherable name]?"

"Yes, sir"

"Rudeboy Adolfus James?"

"Yes, sir"

"Rudeboy Emmanuel Zechariah Zechipaul?"

"Present"

"George Grabandflee?"

"Present"

"Hmm... Adolfus James, I see here you have been charged with

Ten shooting attempts

Five murder charge

Six grab and flee charge"

"But your honor, I didn't--"

"--Hush up! Guilty or not guilty?"

"Not guilty, sir"

"I don't care what you say, take four hundred years. Stand down

Emmanuel Zechariah Zechipaul?"

"Yes, sir?"

"You've been charged with fifteen charge of shooting attempts

Fifteen murder charge

And I heard that you was the one there on Sutton Street

Who tell the judge, 'Rudeboys don't care'

Well, this is King Street, and my name is Judge Dread, and I don't care

Now take four hundred years"

"But ya don't know what I would say, your good honor--"

"--Hush up! What you trying to do, shoot me, too?"

"No, your honor, but I--"

"Quiet! Four hundred more years for you!... George Grabandflee?"

"Yes, sir?"

"Stop your crying, rudeboys don't cry, that's what I hear"

"But I didn't do that, dem frame me, and I don't deserve that--"

"--I don't care, hush up! This is my court!

You're charged for robbing school-children

Rob with aggravation..."

[Incoherent mumbling]

"Hush up, order!

Adolfus James?"

"Yes sir?"

"You rob school-children

You ? the people's house

You shot black people"

"But your honor, I didn't--"

"--Hush up! Just for talking, I now charge you for contempt, and that

Is a separate hundred years

I hereby sentence you to four hundred years"

[Incoherent mumbling]

"I said hush up, hush up!

You're sentenced to four hundred years and five hundred lashes

I am going to set an example, I--rudeboys don't cry, don't cry!

When I was in harbor, I hear you were tough. Court adjourned, take them away!"