[Verse 1]
Even a fortune teller
Couldn't tell you more about woman than me
Don't care how a woman clever
I sure I smarter than she
I could size up any woman in here or on the street
Although we have never met
I could tell you if she's sour, if she's salt, if she's sweet
If she easy or she hard to get
[Chorus]
Now if her eyes
Started coming kind of sleepy when you watch she face
My advice is to take it kinda light
Maybe she's out for tricks
But if she smile with dimples on she cheek
And then she laugh and she got open teeth
Don't let she get away
Is ah bag of sugar down dey
Don't let she get away
Is ah bag of sugar down dey
[Verse 2]
Some men like to see a woman
Very well built and have plenty bust
To be with her they're in heaven
To capture she is a must
But with me it really doesn't matter
Even if she chest flat like two fry egg
I will gih she any money just as long as ah could see
She have two duck foot or bandy leg
[Chorus]
If she pretends to be serious
And play she's not observing you
Grab she hand, if she try to pull away from you
That's a clue
Then if she smile with dimples on she cheek
And then she laugh and she got open teeth
Don't let she get away
Is ah bag of sugar down dey
Don't let she get away
Is ah bag of sugar down dey
[Verse 3]
If you have a bachelor neighbour
And your girl keep talking him bad
Always saying how he so vulgar
Wearing jockey shorts in the yard
You got to invite the bachelor over
See if she will treat him with scorn
Keep a rather observation, watch her reaction
During the conversation
[Chorus]
If when he talk she cyah watch him
She just bow she head or turn she face
That is a sign she is willing to go with him
Any time or place even to gih him a taste
So when he gone I am advising you
From then on you must wear jockey shorts too
That is the only way
You gon protect the sugar down dey
Don't let she get away
She have a bag of sugar down dey
[Verse 4]
Before a man settles with a woman
He got to know what it's all about
Especially if she had children
You got to measure the size of the mouth
Them big mouth woman will settle
With any man for a drink of rum
And they so easy to handle
They don't gih no kind of trouble
Before you call them, they come
[Chorus]
And if their lips start to shiver
And they blushing when they hear you speak
Watch at the nose if it's perspiring
You should know their resistance weak
But if they dress big and kinda fluffy
That is a sign of some type of pregnancy
You better run away
Is only jail and courthouse down dey
Yet to hello the day
Is only jail and courthouse down dey
Bag Ah Sugar was written by Mighty Sparrow.
Mighty Sparrow released Bag Ah Sugar on Sat Jan 01 1966.