Part One: Mary Long Tongue
[Intro]
So I know di secret of a woman
They don't really love
They spirit takes (Yeah)
[Chorus]
A Mary Long-tongue
I said, she don't really love (Yeah)
A Mary Long-tongue
I said, her spirit only takes (Yeah)
[Post-Chorus]
She run from man to man
An' she run from hands to hands (Yeah)
[Verse 1]
A Mary Long-tongue
To try to fool all the youths (Yeah)
A Mary Long-tongue
So I know di secret of a woman
A Mary Long-tongue
She jus' a run up an' down
A Mary Long-tongue
Hey, Mary Long-tongue (Oh, yeah; yeah)
[Chorus]
An' a Mary Long-tongue
I said, she don't really love
A Mary Long-tongue
I said, her spirit only takes
[Post-Chorus]
So she run from man to man
An' run from hands to hands
She's like a bumping ball (Yeah)
She's like a bumping ball
Bumping all over this place
You too jumpy
[Verse 2]
A Mary Long-tongue
That's why mi know di secret of a woman
They are sweet lover (Yeah)
Sweet lover
[Post-Verse]
So, they take your things an' gone
Leave you wonderin' when she will comes
[Chorus]
A Mary Long-tongue
I said, she don't really love
So I know di secret of a woman
A Mary Long-tongue
I said, she don't really love
Her spirit only takes
Hey, Mary Long-tongue (Yeah)
[Post-Chorus]
Hey, yeah, Mary Long-tongue
That's why mi know di secret of a woman
Hey, Mary Long-tongue (Woo)
[Verse 3]
A Mary Long-tongue
She jus' a run up an' down
A Mary Long-tongue (Yeah)
She jus' a run up an' down
[Post-Verse]
Hey, Mary-Mary-Mary
You let mi know di secret of a woman
Sweet lover, sweet lover (Oh)
[Outro]
A Mary Long-tongue
She running from man to man
From hands to hands (Oh, yeah)
Part Two: Toast by Ranking Joe
[Intro]
Hey, boss Charlie, him have a slim dawta
In a him backyard, a when she get bad
Cocky have fi cool her (Go there)
Cah, mi say, cocky have fi cool her
Mary-Mary-Mary Long-tongue *Scatting*
Said, a Mary-Mary-Mary Long-tongue *Scatting*
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Cah, said, a Mary-Mary Long-tongue (Go there)
Cah, said, our woman are Delilah
Cah, so mi said, I said, our woman are Delilah
Cah, so mi said, I said, a Samson was a dreadlocks betray by a woman an' she get into a Babylon (Fire)
Said, are go burn Mary Long-tongue
Cah, fire-fire are go burn Mary Long-tongue
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Qui-qui-qui-qui, qua-qua-qua *Scatting*
That's why mi know the secret of the woman
They are sweet lover (Yeah)
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
Mi said, you satta over yonder 'pon Jah Jah veranda
A spread propaganda (Fire a go bun)
A mi say, you Mary Long-tongue (Go there)
Cah, mi say, hey, boss Charlie, him have a slim dawta
In a him backyard, a when she get bad
Cocky haffi cool her (Mary Long-tongue)
Cocky haffi cool her (Go there)
Say, mi are go suck your likkle tongue like a bubble gum
Mi are go suck your likkle tongue like a bubble gum
Mi are go suck out your tongue an' then mi buss up your gum
Because, a you Mary Long-tongue (Hey)
A Mary Long-tongue (Yeah)
Say now, say now, Mary Long-tongue
Mary Long Tongue was written by Barrington Levy.
Mary Long Tongue was produced by Henry “Junjo” Lawes.