Granny - General Degree

That bwoy left from outta da yard

From morning and him don't come back

Is him and everything

Just get on top of mi nerves

A soon run left Jamaica and go live a Kingston hmmmm

A could a who say granny nuh miserable

If you live with you granny you wi tun granny too

A who say granny nuh love di cussing

Fi mi granny she cuss fi everything

Granny stop hollering out mi name

Granny you calling mi name in vain

Granny weh you a call mi fa

Mi soon left you and go live with mama

Imagine I caan tek

This country what we live in

Look how much money

Wi haffi fi pay fi chicken

Rice and flour and cornmeal is a sin

Waan buy a milk and mi caan buy di tin

Caan even get sugar now fi do some sweetening

A soon run left Jamaica and go live in a foreign

Oh lawd of mercy I have to sing

Unno help me now hmm

I use to tun cornmeal and give mi dad

But that was long before it raise si ya bwoy

I caan tun cornmeal no more a mi yard

'Cause tings get hard oh lawd

Mi say nowadays rice gone up oh lawd

Chicken gone up whooy

Flour it gone outta space

Way in a foreign him dey

And caan and caan catch da note ya

Come again one more time

Deh fi mi oh hear mi now

Granny stop hollering out mi name

Granny how you calling mi name in vain

Granny suh weh you a call mi name fa

Mi soon left you and go live with mama

A who say granny nuh miserable

If you grow with you granny you wi tun granny too

A who say granny nuh love di cussing

Fi mi granny man she cuss fi everything

Son I always tell you you fi look before you leap

You caan plant corn and a peas you waan reap

You don't start di journey then how you fi reach

Tek up di broom cah di yard waan sweep

Look pon you bed you nuh spread it up with you sheet

Mi tell you fi do something all now you nuh dweet

Tun some cornmeal let mi get it fi eat

A so-so gum mi have 'cause mi lost mi false teeth

Granny stop hollering out mi name

Granny you calling mi name in vain

Granny weh you a call mi fa

Mi soon left you and go live with mama

Unda one tree mi hold a seat and sidung

When mi look mi see my granny she a come

She grab him by di shirt and say come here grandson

A weh di cornmeal deh weh mi tell you fi tun

She double up her fist and mi go mek fi run

She start thump mi dung like a mike Mccallum boop

Mi granny she just thump mi dung a ground

And in a mi chest a weh mi granny kneel dung

Boop you wait you ears nuh have nuh drum

Boop a soon left you with so-so gum

Boop anything mi say must do must be done

Granny a go kill mi well grandson

When I done with you a hearse dem haffi send come

Boop a you mek mi old before young

Boop a you gimme body come dung

I caan tek it no more I gwaan left jamdown

A run left ya and go live a kingston

Granny stop hollering out mi name

Granny you calling mi name in vain

Granny weh you a call mi fa

Mi soon left you and go live with mama

A who say granny nuh miserable

If yuh live with you granny you wi tun granny too

A who say granny nuh love di cussing

Fi mi granny man she cuss fi everything

That bwoy left out from yard talk

'Bout him a go shoot bird

All now him nuh come back him

Just get on top a mi nerves

A bwoy like that mek mi cuss badword

W-w-w-Wait till that bwoy come in here

Imagine I caan tek dis country what we live in

Look how much money we haffi fi pay fi chicken

Rice and flour and cornmeal is a sin

When you talk 'bout milk mi caan buy a tin

Not even sugar fi do nuh sweetening

A soon run left Jamaica and go live a foreign

Oh lawd I have to sing

I use to tun cornmeal and give mi dad