| Rasta Ozzy from up the hill
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| Decide to check on him grocery bill
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| And when him add up the things him need
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| He don’t he don’t why him see if he buy little weed
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| Him hand upon his jaw, Lord
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| Reading I am just mediate
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| This time it’s so hard Lord
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| I might not think about emigrate
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| I make up my mind Lord
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| I might as well go against my own faith
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| So I follow the market
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| I sight the butcher boy by the gate
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| (You want goat?)
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| No I might a kill I queen
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| (Try beef now?)
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| I no check if no grass a green
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| (What about fowl?)
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| What I know it’s time for a change
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| (Mashed fish?)
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| Got children on that range
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| (How about the steak?)
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| Watch it now, me now sight the rate
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| (Try tripe boss?)
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| Hold me belly when I pull me pipe
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| (Alright what about the pork?)
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| Hush your mouth man, me brethren hear
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| Sell I upon a dat thing there
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| Then the butcher pull up a stool
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| Begin to question Ozzy how him so fool
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| What kind of something cook in a pot
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| From him born did never hear about that
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| Well what ya know master
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| Give I time make try explain
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| It’s just like a flim show
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| To protect the humble we change the name
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| I would have feel so cute
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| If come and ask for some animal fat
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| Aye I’ll feel safer if we change the subject and call it Dat
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| (You want goat?)
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| No I might a kill I queen
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| (Take the beef then)
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| I no check if no grass a green
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| (What about fowl?)
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| What I know it’s time for a change
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| (Take fish then)
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| Got children on that range
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| (Make good steak you know)
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| Watch it now, me now sight the rate
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| (Take the tripe then boss)
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| Hold me belly when I pull me pipe
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| (Force down the pork then)
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| Hush your mouth man, me brethren hear
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| Sell I upon a dat thing there
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| Ozzy pay off the butcher bill
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| Take him parcel and trode up the hill
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| Like a spy who do you think him meet?
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| Rasta Jeremiah from down the street
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| For guidance me brethren
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| Is what you have in that there bag?
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| Him kind of get frightened
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| And begin to hide it beneath him rag
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| That man no fear high Lord
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| If we go and begone here and take us off
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| Meanwhile light a fire
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| And where we eat us upon a DAT
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| (You want goat?)
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| No I might a kill I queen
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| (Take the beef then)
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| I no deal with grass a green
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| (What about fowl?)
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| What I know it’s time for a change
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| (Eat Fish then)
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| Got children on that range
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| (The steak’s good enough)
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| Watch it now, me now sight the rate
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| (What about the tripe then?)
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| Hold me belly when I pull me pipe
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| (Well take the pork man)
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| Hush your mouth man, me brethren hear
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| Sell I upon a dat thing there |