Niyabinghi chants

Niyabinghi chanting^[1] typically includes recitation of the Psalms, but may also include variations of well-known Christian hymns and adopted by Rastafarians. The rhythms of these chants were eventually an influence of popular ska, rocksteady and reggae music.

Niyabinghi chants include:

• "400 Million Blackman"
• "400 Years" (its lyrics influenced Peter Tosh's "400 Years")
• "Babylon In I Way"
• "Babylon Throne Gone Down" (arranged by Bob Marley to "Rastaman Chant" in 1973)
• "Banks of the River"
• "Behold Jah live"
• "Blackman Get Up Stand Up" (its lyrics influenced Bob Marley's and Peter Tosh's "Get Up, Stand Up" in 1973)
• "Brimstone"
• "Chant Zion Chant"
• "Closer Than a Brother"
• "Come sight up in Jah Army"
• "Fool Fool"
• "Have a little light in I"
• "I'n'I Riding"
• "I Am Getting Ready"
• "Idemption Trodding"
• "I Must Trod Home"
• "I Shall Not Remove" (its lyrics influenced Bob Marley's "Forever Loving Jah")
• "I Will Not Go With You"
• "Jah Got the Whole World"
• "Jah Wind Blow East"
• "Leave Babylon"
• "Little Children"
• "Mystery Babylon Have To Move" / "Him Have To Move"
• "Never Get Burn"
• "New Name"
• "No Night in Zion" (arranged and released by Culture in 1997, arranged and released by Luciano in 2001)
• "Nyahbinghi Voyage" (arranged and released by Steel Pulse)
• "One Day Nearer Home"
• "Over Hills and Valleys"^[2]
• "Peace and Love"
• "Promise to Hear I Chant"
• "Rastafari Conquer"
• "Rastafari Know What This Gathering For"
• "Rivers of Babylon" (arranged and released by The Jamaicans, Boney M arrangement became a world hit)
• "Rock-of-my Soul"
• "Rock of Ises"
• "Roll River Jordan"
• "Run Come Rally"
• "Satta Massagana"
• "Send One Mighty Ingel"
• "So Long Rastafari" (arranged by Bob Marley in 1978; arranged and released by Dennis Brown in 1979)
• "Take a Sip"
• "The Lion of Judah" / "The Conquering Lion" (arranged by Bob Marley in 1976)
• "The Things You Do" (arranged and released by Sizzla Kalonji)
• "Universal Tribulation"
• "Volunteer Ithiopian"
• "What a Weeping"
• "What a Woe"
• "Will You Be Ready"
• "Zion Land"

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