INTRO: This a survival story, true ghetto story.
this is my story, real ghetto story hey
Verse 1: I rememba those days when hell was
my home when me an mamma bed was a big
peice a foam and me never like bathe and my
hair never comb, when mamma gone a work me
go street go roam. I remember when Donny dem
take me snow cone and mek him likkle bredda dem
kick up Jerome. I remember when we visit them
wid pure big stone and de bwoy Donny pop out something
wey full chrome. I remember when we run Fatta get him
knees blown and me best friend Richie get two inna him
dome. I remember seh de Avenue turn inna war zone.
And Mickie mother fly him out cause she get a loan.
But Mickie go to foreign and go turn Al Capone, mek
whole heap a money and sen in our own. Now a we a lock
the city and that is well known. yesterday Mickey call
mi pon de phone me seh Mickie.
Cho: We get the ting dem, them outta luck now. We squeeze
seven an de whole a dem a duck now. We have whole heap a extra
clip cause we no bruck now. rah, rah, rah, rah. We get de ting dem
so dem have fi rate we and we a tek it to dem wicked since lately.
And now de whole community a live greatly. rah, rah, rah, rah
Verse 2: I remember bout 80 Jamaica explode when Trinity and Tony
Hewitt dem a run road dat a long before Leng dem and even Bigga Ford
When Adams dem and Corporal no know de road code
I remember when we rob the Chiney shop down de road and rumor have it seh
the chiney man have a sword but we did have a one pop weh mek outta board
so yuh know the next day momma pot overload
I remember when we stick the poll clerks and dump the ballot box dem pon Tivoli
outskirts and hold a plane ticket an go chill over Turks
When me come back a still inna the hole me a lurk. I remember those days when informer Dirk
get one inna him face cause me no get no perks and the bigger heads dem are a couple
of jerks cause a dem a mek the money when a we mash the works.
Cho:
Verse 3: Jamaica get screw through greed and glutton. Politics manipulate and press
youths button. But wi rich now so dem can't tell man nutting. Cause a we a mek
mamma nyam fish and mutton hey over deh so mek mi tell unnu something. True me
deh a foreign a guy kill me cousin and me hear say Teilly deh deh but him say him wasn't
Anytime me fly down him a get bout dozen. Cause
Cho:
Repeat Verse 1
