Letras
Well it's about time them recognize Jamaican as an official language
Known as Patois, but Patois is English that's broken
But it's not broken, it's a language that's universally spoken
Jamaican, that a way you talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way you talk sista
Jamaican, that a way you talk me bredda
Jamaican, talk how you talk sista
Not so long ago down in Africa
We were talking African to one another
Some wicked man come cross we border
Say we a di slave and say him a di owner
Put we pon a big ship together
Separate the mother, father, sister and bredda
Put a man from Ghana with a man from Nigeria
One a talk Ashanti, one a talk Yoruba
Try to mix we up so we don't understand
Dem forget a African invent communication
We take dem English, put in we African
And touch a Arawak, Indian and we get
Jamaican, that a so we talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way we talk sista
Jamaican, talk how you talk me bredda
Jamaican, yeah, man
Everywhere me go, people waan learn Jamaican
Dem love the sound, dem love the vibration
Dem love the grammar, the word combination
Spoken inna Jamaica by the whole of the nation
Some people tell you say you haffi talk the English
Dem think Jamaican is a lower language
We talk the English when we want, but listen to this
Out of the English and Jamaican which sound the sweetest?
Look at that (Coo deh)
What for? (Fi wah?)
Go away (Gweh)
Look here (Coo yah)
Here (Yah suh), there (Yah suh)
Where are you going? (A weh yah go?)
Come over here (Come yah nuh)
I see (A woo)
What are you eating? (Weh yah nyam?)
That's how I am (A so me tan)
Leave me alone (Lef' me nuh)
Go on (Ga' long)
Fengky fengky, labba labba
Su su su su, bu bu yaga
Pya pya, chaka chaka
Ray ray, wara wara