88 HUGH HODGES the message here, the song that follows "Small Axe" on the album Burnin'is "Pass it On": Be not selfish in your doings Pass it on Help your brothers in their needs Pass it on Live for yourself, you wi live in vain Live for others, you wi live again In the kingdom of Jah Man shall reign Pass it on27 "Pass it On" is, in the first instance, a call for a conscious rejection of Anancy. Help your brothers; be not selfish. At the same time, the song is a call to look forward to the apocalyptic Anancy trick to end all tricks that will defeat Babylon once and for all, and establish the Kingdom of Jah. This is the great miracle that every small miracle of personal upliftment anticipates every Pentecostal possession rite, every Rasta meditation and it's the miracle anticipated (perhaps even precipi- tated, hurried along soon come) by every linguistic blow directed against Babylon by Dreadtalk. There's a particularly significant piece of Dreadtalk in the line "In the kingdom of Jah Man shall reign." In Dreadtalk, lyaric, the word 'men', used as both singular and plural, refers to the hosts of Babylon the politicians, the priests, the CIA - in short, the doomed races of men who live in vain. Man, on the other hand is used to refer exclusively to the Rastaman, the I-Man. So, in the Kingdom of Jah, Man shall reign. This is the half that has never been told, condensed into one word. The story that the trickified downpressors hoped would never be told. And it turns out that the sufferers, those whom the downpressors have scattered across the Atlantic, whom they have tried to debase and dehumanize, are Man. As it says in Genesis, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion."28 Importantly, "Pass it On," is an injunction to, well, pass it on to tell the half that has never been told, and to keep telling it until it brings down the walls of Jericho. And this finally is the Anancy trick re-imagined without Anancy; it's a song performed not by a lone trick- ster, but by a people, chanting down Babylon. And that is the trick turned miracle. 27 Jean Watt, "Pass It On," Wailers. 28 Genesis 1:26