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It takes a fool to know a fool, and it takes a wise to know a wise.

Those who love Lee 'Scratch' Perry music shall live forever, and those who fight against Lee 'Scratch' Perry shall die forever in Doomsville.

Lee Perry.

my favourite is also "you never miss your water..."
also like "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" and its variations. Appears in several songs, trying to remember which ones but...

PF, Sugar Minott's "Vanity" is one song which mentions the camel if I remember right...

"Teeth and toe all in a row, donkey want water but you hold him Joe," "How water walk go a pumpkin belly", what are these Tenor Saw ones about?

Hail Jesco 77

"Teeth and toe all in a row, donkey want water but you hold him Joe,"

as far as i know is an ald folk saying used in countless mento tunes in the 50's/ bsically mean when donkney wan water hold him steady

"How water walk go a pumpkin belly"

this is an old time one, i dont know the menaing behind..... i ll get beck to this one

heres the link to some GUYANESE PROVERBS (intersting....)

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:-W ... =clnk&cd=1

JAH BLESS

some favorites:

-Him that sow in tears shall reap in joy

-A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners

-Time is longer than rope

-If Jah is for I and I, who can be against I

-Don't gain the world but lose your soul.

You can't waste time because how can you waste something that has no end?

(Laozi - I think!)

Heres one i mother use fe use

"No cup no broke, no coffee no dash wey"

TRANSLATION

even if badness strike you inna ya yard, it's always possible that all may not be lost.

JAH LOVE

Your mother sounds like she a wise woman RT!

Thanks Leggo

She was indeed a wise woman

Jah bless her soul for - i - ver

JAH LOVE