1 “But now, get guys mo young den me,
2 I neva give work to dea faddahs cuz dey not strong enuff.
3 Dey look weak.
4 Inside da boonies dey pull up da salt kine weeds.
5 Odda peopo kick um out an no let um stay nea dem.
6 Dey gotta live in da skery cliffs inside da dry gulches.
7 Dey make noise like animals wea get plenny bushes,
8 Dey stupid, an no mo nobody know dea name.
9 “An now dea kids sing hauna kine songs bout me.
10 Dey ack jalike I pilau,
11 God make um now so I no can fight,
12 From da right side, young gang guys attack me.
13 Dey broke up da trail I use.
14 Dey come agains me, jalike thru one wide puka dey broke down in da wall,
15 Skery tings come all ova me.
16 “An now all poho my life stay now!
17 Nite time I feel jalike someting stay digging inside my bones.
18 God get plenny powa, an jalike he grab my clotheses
19 Jalike God throw me down in da mud,
20 “Eh God! I yell fo you help me, but you no do notting fo me.
21 You change an you like hurt me.
22 You make da wind pick me up an make me ride on top um.
23 I know you goin make me mahke,
24 “Fo shua, nobody goin wack one guy dat stay all bus up,
25 I wen cry fo da peopo dat get hard time erytime.
26 But wen I wait fo da good kine stuff fo happen, bad stuff happen!
27 Inside me eryting come mix up an no stop.
28 I come dark, but not from da hot sun.
29 Wen I cry, I howl
30 My skin come black,
31 Jalike my harp ony good fo play funeral kine songs,