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Free Like We Want 2 B
1995







    Hand to Mouth
    WRITTEN BY
    Stephen Marley and David "Ziggy" Marley


    Power to the workers More power Power to the workers We need more power Power to the workers Got to have more power Power to the workers We need more power Free zone workers you working hard everyday But all the work you do don't get enough pay I mad I still don't know why I still don't know why Is minimum wage for your sufferation have no more toleration Hand to mouth can't work Hand to mouth can't work Hand to mouth business no it can't work [cho] School teachers you working hard educatring But all the work you do they take you for a play thing I mad I still don't know why I still don't know why Is little bit a pay for your contribution and you mean so much to the nation [cho] Me say me naah get enough good weh day All thema work is like them naah get no pay Naah get enough food from weh day All the work we work is like we naah get no pay Watching everything go up in inflation Food price go up and man pay a go down Ask some a them Them telling short long But in a corner we wings and a jam Ragga ragga a watch the notion Say we naah get no good food from weh day Naah sow no good seed from weh day Naah sow no good seed from weh day Naah get enough food weh day Our nurses saving lives everyday But all the lives you save you don't get enough pay I mad I still don't know why I still don't know why Is little bit a pay for your life savings what a grave they're digging [cho] Now our farmers them digging hard every day But all the food they grow import them a say That make me mad that make me mad mad mad mad Mad mad mad mad Is little bit a pay for your mama too and your sister got to shop for two Oh civil servants you working hard everyday and you sweating out for your pay but I man still don't know why Still don't know why is little bit a pay everyday what you got to take away Woy! woy! woy! woy! woy! [cho] Me say me naah get enough good from weh day all the talk we talk is like we naah Naah get no good yood from weh day all the bawl we bawl say them no hear wha we a say Workers a the backbone a the whole island don't treat them right is total confusion Can't go no doctor for no medication School but no teacher no education Pay more dollars to the foundation Naah get enough pay from weh day musician a suffer but a play same way engineer a bawl how him pay too small Can't build him house with no concrete wall Bass man a cry bout him can't get string Have the contacts and can't bring them in raggamuffin dj and sing Lord naah get enough good from weh day all the talk we talk is like we naah Lord Naah get no good yood from weh day all the bawl we bawl say them no hear wha we a say Watching everything go up in inflation Food price go up and man pay a god down Some a them Them telling short Long Ragga ragga deh pon the version Ziggy zaggy a watch the movements Robert Brownie: Drums Christopher Meredith: Bass Glen Brownie: Keyboard Ziggy Marley: Guitar Cedella Marley: Background Vocals Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals Stephen Marley: Background Vocals Erica Newell: Background Vocals

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