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Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:16 am
by marcus
Also Sugar Minott in "Dancehall Stylee"...amongst a bunch of other snippets of classic dancehall lyrics. (Sounds like he's quoting them to capture the vibe of a Friday nite jamboree.)
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:55 am
by marcus
"Gateman/Leggo Mi Hand" - Josey Wales. Every line is a gem:
You love brag and you love show off, lawd,
You model long like a shovel-mouth shark.
Put mi neck 'pon a block and even chop it off,
Put it in a wheelbarrow, fling it down a wharf
Mi duppy come back and it still a laugh...
Leggo mi hand, gateman, let mi come in!
...Yu arm smell like a rotten sardine
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:08 pm
by sean
Great knowledge shown there jumbo, thanks very much.Thanks to Marcus as well.Now...
I like the following, from Linton Kwesi Johnson.
"When dem gi yu
de likkle wage packet
first dem rob it wi dem big tax racket
you affe struggle to mek ends meet
and when you go you bed
you just cyaan sleep"..sums up work in the uk..then and now...
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:08 pm
by ripley
I was born steady as a rock,
You hurt my soul and my heart is lock
x2
I was born steady as a rock
You hurt my soul and my heart is lock
You hurt my soul...
--
maybe it's just coming off a serious breakup, but Higgs gets me everytime with that one.
Higgs & Wilson - "Hurt My Soul"
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:29 pm
by reggaepostman
From Freddie Mckay's " Sun don't shine" :
"When I woke up this morning i got no bread on my table
and my children are lying there waiting for a meal to be prepared,
nobody knows the troubles I have
only jahjah knows"
Not only the words but also the (desperate) way he sings it, heartbraking
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:21 pm
by demyan khrolenko
i dont think he ment he was going to cut with wife with the "i got the handle" lyrics. .......he was using a metaphor saying that he was in control and she was edgy, so she shouldnt try to fight him. whats the name of the song i heard it and iv been looking for it...
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:45 am
by Rocky VIII
The Heptones "I Hold The Handle" - studio one tune
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:46 am
by Rocky VIII
"my pants length coulda pay your two months rent" - Hugh Mundell
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:09 pm
by JoLong
" if yu say you love me MADLY, then I'll accept yu gladly..."
Eric Donaldson (Cherry Oh).
Re: Lyrics - Quote some lines - funny, roots, lovers, your favourites or ones that make you laugh, sigh or cry...
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:05 pm
by MrZwane
"im Trying , To keep the music from Dying"-Chalice
Always brings me close to tears...always!