Da One Yah Fi

[Intro]
Ha yeah ehh
Sta na na na na nai
Mi nah tell enuh nuh lie
Ehh ya
Deh pan di endz mi a hol a vibe
Saturday night everything alright
Sunday morning come
And mi wa see the sunlight, yeah

[Chorus]
Mi jus a black pickney
An african fam mi try Karamanti
Want a roof over my head nuttin too fancy
And mi jus want enough not a bagga money
But inna Jamaica it nuh too easy
Dem treat yuh good if yuh rich
If yuh poor badly
Neither way out smaddy please help me
Mi a sing 'til the world hear me
Da one yah fi

[Verse 1]
Di youth dem pan di corner
Weh have life a way
And dem know it nuh nawmal
Da one yah fi all hopeless baby-mada
Weh dweet pan dem own
'Cause dem cut from di fada
Da one yah fi kids dem weh scared and abandoned
Lost and alone fi no-one fi depend on
Da one yah fi all garrison grand-mada
Weh raise up dem youths pan mackerel and banana, yeah

[Chorus]
Mi jus a black pickney
An african fam mi try Karamanti
Want a roof over my head nuttin too fancy
And mi jus want enough not a bagga money
But inna Jamaica it nuh too easy
Dem treat yuh good if yuh rich
If yuh poor badly
Neither way out smaddy please help me
Mi a sing 'til the world hear me
Da one yah fi

[Verse 2]
Di victims of rape and abuse
Wid nuh weh fi turn and nuh know weh fi do
Da one yah fi all likkle youths and youths
Surrounded by lies and a seek out di truth
Da one yah fi sistren dem weh get use
By a pathologically mendacious dude
Da one yah fi di ones dem weh shed blood too
Caught in a cycle and a try get loose, yeah

[Chorus]
Mi jus a black pickney
An african fam mi try Karamanti
Want a roof over my head nuttin too fancy
And mi jus want enough not a bagga money
But inna Jamaica it nuh too easy
Dem treat yuh good if yuh rich
If yuh poor badly
Neither way out smaddy please help me
Mi a sing 'til the world hear me
Da one yah fi

[Bridge]
Deh pan di endz mi a hol a vibe
Thursday night everything alright
Deh pan di endz mi a hol a vibe
Friday night everything alright
Deh pan di endz mi a hol a vibe
Saturday night everything alright
Sunday morning come
And mi wa see the sunlight, yeah

[Chorus]
Mi jus a black pickney
An african fam mi try Karamanti
Want a roof over my head nuttin too fancy
And mi jus want enough not a bagga money
But inna Jamaica it nuh too easy
Dem treat yuh good if yuh rich
If yuh poor badly
Neither way out smaddy please help me
Mi a sing 'til the world hear me
Da one yah fi