| I think of all the housing scheme
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| And I Sister Nancy gon sound do it well clean
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| When you sick of if you lame or your damn blast and mean
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| It’s the housing scheme, you know?
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| I tell you fi build a little housing scheme
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| Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme
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| Who some a in a red some blue and green
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| Some tepl in a purple yellow chaka no so green
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| I tell you fi build a little housing scheme hey ah
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| Tell you fi build a little roof over yo head
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| Tell you fi build a little roof over yo head
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| Me landlord come am inna occupy yo ladder
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| Him likker af yo door a you no want mi rent
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| I tell myself fi build a little roof over ya head
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| Tell me I can’t get a brick, you use bag a spode
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| A likkle after that you wanna house of your own
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| Mi landlord can’t come kick off yo door
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| Better put a little roof over yo head
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| Ca you fi put a little roof over yo head
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| I tell you whether natty dread or a whether baldhead
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| Ah I Sister Nancy do some doing instead
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| Better put a little roof over yo head
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| You better put a little roof over yo head
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| I telling you fi set up production man
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| I tell you so fi set up foundation man
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| You you dem come on dem city foundation
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| A you fi build a little housing scheme
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| Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme
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| You do what ya what do what ya wah do it well clean
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| I sound in a red blue yellow and green
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| Ah I Sister Nancy comfy nice on this scene
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| Mi lyan you fi build a little roof over yo head. |
| Steady!
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| You put a little roof over yo head
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| I tell that the great is great, great shouldn’t underrate
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| And a-ya Sister Nancy me no imitate
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| Ca mi say anything me chant, I meet originate
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| Better build a little housing scheme
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| Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme
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| I tell you if you sick or if you sad or if yo loss a love your head
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| You sick or if you sad or if yo loss a love your head
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| A don pon marker make me feel so bad
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| You fi build a little roof over yo head
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| Tell yo fi put a little roof over yo head
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| The landlord a come am inna occupy your lad
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| Him take what’s you better, you no waan fi no renta
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| Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme
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| I tell you so fi put a little roof over yo head
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| I tell yo when you can’t get a brick, you use bag of spode
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| A likkle after that you wanna house of your own
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| The landlord can’t come kick off your door
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| You pick me outta door a bad lad what
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| Your woman inna also wanna woy woy woy
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| Natty build a little roof over yo head hey oh
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| Tell you fi put a little roof over yo head
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| You do it you are do it you are do it instead
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| Whether baldhead or mi say whether natty dreada
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| I telling you fi build a little housing scheme. |
| You see?
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| You build a little housing scheme
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| Who the putting a bretha mi say yellow or green
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| You step it inna blue who red or white |