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*LYRICS*
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Never know how times hard
Till me see me granny cut the toothpaste tube
Weh* we ah* go do?
Me really want fi* know weh we ah go do?
Spend a bag of money ‘pon school fee
What a thing if the pickney* no pass
Weh we ah go do?
Not nice, weh we ah go do?
We suffering everyday here
Cause life's so messed up me brother
But weh we ah go do?
Ghetto youth, weh we ah go do?
We work hard all week
And the money weh we make ah fi send we back ah work
Weh we ah go do?
Society, weh we ah go do?!
Hold on now!
Nuff* of we deh* here so ah suffer long time
But we never give up, yeah we never stop trying
For we living in a perilous time
Dog ah nyam* dog and blind ah lead blind oh
Jah know say the system here set a way
And nobody no cater fi none ah we
And we bawl say we want house and car
But ah the prison and the hearse them set fi we
We suffering everyday here
Cause life's so messed up me brother
But weh we ah go do?
Ghetto youth, weh we ah go do?
We work hard all week
And the money weh we make ah fi send we back ah work
Weh we ah go do?
Society, weh we ah go do?
'Mount of time weh me pree* say fi run away
Lef* here so and go somewhere far away
But the ongle* reason make me no lef yet
Ah true me no have nowhere fi go, so might as well me stay
But me haffi* wonder, weh we ah go do?
Government tell me, weh we ah go do?
Me want gwaan* easy, but even that hard fi do
We suffering everyday here
Cause life's so messed up, me brother
But weh we ah go do?
Ghetto youth, weh we ah go do?
We work hard all week
And the money weh we make ah fi send we back ah work
Weh we ah go do?
Society, weh we ah go do?
La, la, la, la la, la, la, la, la….family
I'm gonna make it for my family
La, la, la, la la, la, la, la, la….family
I'm gonna make it for my family
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Weh = What
Ah = This word is present in almost all sentences of the Jamaican patois. Generic preposition for nearly everything like: am/is/of/are/in etc, depending on the context.
Fi = For/To, depending on context
Pickney = Child
Nuff = Many/A lot
Deh = There
Nyam = Eat
Pree = Look
Lef = Leave
Ongle = Only
Haffi = Have to
Gwaan = Go on
