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Need to find out who sings these songs can anyone help please? - lyrics below:

Song 1
Pretender you better surrender
cos I have you under heavy binocular
and I and I done sight wha ah gwarn yah
so pretender you better look arn yah..

Song 2
Di niggah ah di winner
and di weak heart ah sinner
di niggah ah di winner
and

Song 3
Jah is my life and my salvation
who shall have faith
Jah is gonna guide I coming in
Jah is gonna guide I coming out
Because jah jah is my life
and my salvation who shall have faith

Song 4
Happiness reveal yourself to me now
I said happiness happiness reveal yourself to me
I'm a man who is trying hard on my own yeah
and some people try to push I around oh no

Song 5
Easy bredren easy what make you so rough now
easy natty easy what make you so tough now
We wan fi farward and a yard
things getting kind of hard

Sorry for such a long list. Any help would be much appreciated.

Song 1:

Pretender by Matumbi

Song 4:

Happiness by Errol Dunkley

5 is also off Errol Holt's Visions of Africa - Easy Niah man.

I'll listen to it later but I think 3 is - 'Jah Light', and I'm pretty sure there's a version of 4 on it -'Happiness'.

Long time since I played that LP so I'll check it.

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The lyrics of Song 3 remind me of Prince Far I in "Black reggae music", but I'm really not sure.
But I think the second phrase is "whom shall I fear"

3 is Errol on Visions of Africa, I'm listening to it now.

But the lyric is not 'who shall have faith', it is 'who shall I have fear (of)'

Of course, the lyrics are a Psalm, so expect it to feature elsewhere, especially in Far I's work. But given that many of the rest are from this Visions LP, I'm guessing so is this one.

4 is Happiness on this LP, I'm playing that now.

Thanks for reminding me how good this LP is!

Song 2 = Prince jazzbo
"Every niggah is a winner"
A self production,available on the Pressure Sounds Jazzbo compilation "Mr Funny"

Thanks everyone for your help and input.

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Ok Leggo rocker. Will do. Thanks.