Draw Your Brakes
Scotty (JAM) * Track #1 On School-Days
Download "Draw Your Brakes"
Album School-Days
Draw Your Brakes by Scotty (Artist)
Performed by
Scotty (JAM)Produced by
Derrick HarriottAbout
“Draw Your Brakes” is an example of Jamaican singjay style, which is closely related to the dub music that was popular on the island at the time. While dub usually consists of remixing popular reggae recordings, singjay artists would record themselves “toasting,” or chanting spoken word sections, ov...
Draw Your Brakes Lyrics
[Intro]
Forward and payaaka
Manhangle and den go saaka
[Refrain]
Stop that train I want to get on
My baby she's leaving me now
(Did you hear that? Express yourself brother!)
Stop that train I want to get on
My baby she's leaving me now
[Verse 1]
Ooh, and she really first on the train towards another guy
And I really couldn't believe that she's gone
And she was telling a lie
Wah! Oooh, good God
And I tell you that the girl has really left I to cry
When she waved bye bye bye
Good gracious!
[Refrain]
Stop that train I want to get on
(Draw your brakes brother, I just can't take it
Oooh, 'cause the girl is really gone)
Stop that train (wah!) I want to get on
(Ooh, ooh, and the girl is gone for true
Goodness gracious!)
[Bridge]
La la la la la, la la la la la la (ooh, ooh)
La la la la la, la la la la la la (wah!)
La la la la la (I just can't take it), la la la la la la, ooh yeah (ooh yes!)
La la la la la, la la la la la la (hook riddim, slide down rocks, wah!)
[Verse 2]
Ooh, play your guitar brother
'Cause this is indeed a sad, sad song
She said she was going on the morning train, uh-huh
And all know I don't see she first or talk to her yet
That mean that the other guy forward away with her
And I just can't take it no more
[Outro]
Stop that train
(Hear I express I-self, draw your brakes brother!
'Cause you really taking I girl away from I)
Stop that train, I want to get on
(Ooh, ooh, I can't even hold on to the back of the train
The brother is going too fast for I)
Stop that train, I want to get on
(Express yourself! I tell you about it)
La la la la la, la la la la la la
(And now I am crying)
Stop that train, I want to get on
(And I didn't know that the girl was lying)
La la la la la, la la la la la la
(Stop that train!)
Draw Your Brakes Q&A
Who wrote Draw Your Brakes's ?
Draw Your Brakes was written by Winston Jones & Derrick Harriott & Scotty (JAM).
Who produced Draw Your Brakes's ?
Draw Your Brakes was produced by Derrick Harriott.
What other recordings of this song exist?
This is the original single version from 1971. This is the re-dubbed version included on The Harder They Come in 1972.
What is the original version of this song?
This is the original 1965 song by Spanish Town Skabeats, later renamed the Spanishtonians, which has a more upbeat ska rhythm. This is Keith & Tex’s cover from 1967, which slows the song down to a rocksteady beat. Scotty sampled Keith & Tex for “Draw Your Brakes.”