Sampled after 1975 Jacob Miller & The Inner Circle Band’s smash tune “Tenement Yard”, the song elaborates the theme of the “news carrying dread” (gossiper, rat, informer) which was also pivotal to the original song, whose lyrics (“Dreadlocks can’t live in a Tenement Yard/Too much watchy-watchy/T...
[Intro]
(Rrra aaaa aaa aa)
And I say he that keepth his mouth, you know
Yeah, They shall be Longer Live
Wooo Wooo Wooo ooohooo
[Verse 1]
I say
I never ask you Nothing weh you tell me
I beg you daily to cease and still yuh keep talking
Wooo Wooo Wooo ooohooo
Me granny tell me, from me a little baby
He that keepeth his mouth, shall stay out a problem
(rah ha ha ha) Wooo Wooo Wooo ooohooo
[Chorus]
Seems like you is a
News carrying dread
So I, ain't tarrying on yah
Same mouth that, chatter with me
Will, chatter of me
Mouth murderer, big informa
[Hook]
Oh dreaaaaadd!
Your mouth ago put you inna problem
Wah wah wah ah ha
Big big problem
Oh dreaaaaadd!
I say, you mouth ago put you inna problem
Wah wah wah ah ha
You a go bawl, say sake a your mouth
You a go weep, say sake a your teeth
Yeah, shall mek you bawl, sake a your mouth
Every thief is a liar
Every liar is a thief
[Verse 2]
'Memba you tell me Teflon hate me
Then you tell Teflon, "Chronixx say, him hate him like a dose a poison"
(Don't believe you)
You wicked ehhhhh
You tell me woman say me have another lady
Then you tell me, say she have a man weh live a Horizon
Murderer... Mouth a massie!
[Repeat Chorus]
[Repeat Hook]
[Verse 3]
Chronixx!
You mouth never ease, nuh sleep, nuh slumber (weh you mean?)
So me know you is a Peter plunder
Come in like you nuh fear the man weh roll the thunder (never)
So me feet shall cast your thirty-two teeth asunder
[Hook (2x)]
Tenement Yard (News Carryin’ Dread) was written by Chronixx.
Tenement Yard (News Carryin’ Dread) was produced by Inner Circle.
Chronixx released Tenement Yard (News Carryin’ Dread) on Mon Jan 05 2015.