Intro:
This a survival story, true ghetto story
This is my story, real ghetto story
Hey
Verse 1:
I remember those days when Hell was
my home
When Me and Mama bed was a big piece
of foam
An mi never like bathe and my hair never
comb
When Mama gone a work me go street go
roam
I remember when Danny dem tek me snow
cone
An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up
Jerome
I remember when we visit dem wid pure
big stone
An the boy Danny pop out something weh
full chrome
I remember when we run, Fatta get him
knee blown
An mi best friend Richie get, two inna
him dome
I remember so the avenue tun inna warzone
An, Mickey madda fly him out, cau she
get a loan
But, Mickey go to foreign and go tun
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 me pan mi phone
Mi say Mickey.....
Chorus:
Wi get di ting dem
Dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem
a duck now
Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau
we nuh bruk now
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Wi get di ting dem, So dem haffi rate
wi
Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
And now the whole community a live greatly
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Verse 2:
I remember bout '80, Jamaica explode
When a Trinity and Tony Hewitt dem a
run road
That a long before Laing dem and even
Bigga Ford
When Adams dem a Corporal nuh know the
road code
I remember when we rob the chiney shop
down the road
An rumour have it sey the chiney man
have a sword
But we did have a one pop wey make outta
board
So you know the next day mama pot Overlooaad
I remember when we skip the poll clerks
An dump the ballot box pan Tivoli outskirts
An hold a plane ticket and go chill
over Turks
When me come back a still inna the hole
me a lurk
I remember those days when informer
dirks...
Get one inna him face and me nuh get
nuh perks
And the bigger heads dem are a couple
of jerks
Cause a dem a mek di money, when a wi
mash di works
Chorus:
Wi get di ting dem
Dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem
a duck now
Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau
we nuh bruk now
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Wi get di ting dem, So dem haffi rate
wi
Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
And now the whole community a live greatly
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Verse 3:
Jamaica get screw, tru greed an glutton
Politics manipulate and press yutes
button
But we rich now ,so dem caan tell man
notin
Cuz a we a mek Mama a nyaam Fish an
Mutton..Ehhhh
Ova dehso mek mi tell unnu some'in...
Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy kill
me cousin
An mi here sey TD deh dey but him sey
he wasnt
Anytime mi fly down him a get bout dozen....Cause......
Chorus:
Wi get di ting dem
Dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem
a duck now
Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau
we nuh bruk now
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah
Wi get di ting dem, So dem haffi rate
wi
Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
And now the whole community a live greatly
Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah