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I've just heard this tune on radio,, the voice sounds like Mutabaruka's and its done in a poem style. who's the artist? Is it Mutabaruka?


One Love.

You better check out this;)
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This album is just GREAT!!!

I love the cover art of the 12" that looks like a real letter. First time I saw it was at a local record store here in Stockholm. The owner had it framed on the wall.

Linton is a great poet and that album is one of his truly best.

Thanks for your help,, I'll be on the look out for it...


Gaks.

Just thought ini should share the lyrics of dis ya great song:

"Dear mama
good day
I hope that when these few lines reach you they may
find you in the best of health
I doun know how to tell ya dis
for I did mek a solemn promise
to tek care a lickle Jim
an try mi bes fi look out fi him

mama, I really did try mi bes
but none a di less
sorry fi tell ya seh, poor lickle Jim get arres
it was de miggle a di rush hour
hevrybody jus a hustle and a bustle
to go home fi dem evenin shower
mi an Jim stan up waitin pon a bus
not causin no fuss

when all of a sudden a police van pull up
out jump tree policemen
de whole a dem carryin baton
dem walk straight up to me and Jim
one a dem hold on to Jim
seh dem tekin him in
Jim tell him fi leggo a him
for him nah do nutt'n
and 'im nah t'ief, not even a but'n
Jim start to wriggle
de police start to giggle

mama, mek I tell you wa dem do to Jim?
mek I tell you wa dem do to 'im?

Dem thump him him in him belly and it turn to jelly
Dem lick 'im pon 'im back and 'im rib get pop
Dem thump him pon him head but it tough like lead
Dem kick 'im in 'im seed and it started to bleed

Mama, I jus couldn't stan up deh, nah do nuttin'

So mi jook one in him eye and him started fi cry
me thump him pon him mout and him started fi shout
me kick him pon him shin so him started fi spin
me hit him pon him chin an him drop pon a bin
- an crash, an dead

More policman come dung
dem beat me to the grung
dem charge Jim fi sus
dem charge mi fi murdah

mama, doan fret
doan get depress an downhearted
be of good courage-acap"

Pure poetry!!

Thanks fe d lyrics Funkyfred!!! i've actually been googling for the lyrics & had not yet got them...


Blessed.

dis poem
dis poem shall speak of the wretched seas that washed shipped to these shores
dis poem...
dis poem...
dis poem...

Hi!

Sorry Ras Gaks for hijacking your thread, but it's more or less about the same subject.

Does someone know where I can find some lyrics from the album "Mi cyaan' believe it" from the great dub poet Michael Smith?

Thanks in advance!!

Ites Francesco!

here mi post dis link where yu can download all de lyrics fram Michael Smith´s "Mi Cyaan Believe It" album:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jmj01nzwycq

BLESS

This is a GREAT tune (and tragic story...) I recall the first time I heard this tune ... was on a reggae radio show on KPFA (94.1) out of Berkeley, CALIF. a-waaaaaay back in the fall of 1979. I became an immediate fan of LKJ, as well as Dennis Bovell & band, who I believe provided all the killer riddims.