Rasta Ozzy from up de hill Decide fi check ‘pon ‘im grocery bill An’ when him add up de t’ings him need De dunny done wha’ him save fi buy likkle weed Him han ‘pon him jaw, lord. Red him eye an’ just meditate The time is so hard lord, I man now t’ink ’bout emigrate I mek up me mind lord I might as well go ‘gainst I man faith So a forward a market, I sight the butcher bwoy by de gate Chorus ( You wan’ goat? ) No I might-a kill I queen ( Try de beef nuh? ) I no check fi no grass weh green ( Wha’ bout fowl? ) What’cha know is time fi a change ( Mere fish ? ) Got children out a dat range ( How ’bout de steak? ) What’cha know, me no sight me rate ( Try tripe? ) Bu’n me belly when I pull me pipe ( What about de pork then? ) Hush your mouth man, me brethren hear Sell I a pound of dat t’ing there So when the butcher pull up a stool Begin fi question Ozzy how him so fool What kind a sump’in cook in a pot From him born him never did hear ’bout dat Well what’cha know master, give I time mek’a try explain It’s just like a flim show Fi protect the humble we change the name I would have feel so cute Fi come in and ask we some ‘Arnold fat’ I and I feel safer if we change the subject and call it Dat ( Rpt Chorus ) Ozzy pay off de butcher bill Tek de parcel and trod up the hill Like a spite who do you t’ink him meet? Rasta Jeremiah from down the street Guidance me brethren Is wha’ you have in a dat dere bag? Him kinda get frighten, and begin fi hide it beneat’ him rag That man no fear I …
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Posted by Pluto @ 9:41 am
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25 Responses
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Love this music.? Cool.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
OMG this comment cracked me up, I love,? love, love my Jamaican heritage. xx
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
thumbs up if you listen? in2012
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
that’s for both songs… the “watch ya now” distinction refers to “Dat”, and the paragraph below refers to? “Ram Goat Liver”
sorry for the confusion, i should have been clearer!
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Gonna? kill I queen. Hillarious!
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Iti is good, god, if he released it today, would be No1 for a? month. A great tune
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Fabulous!! xxx thanks for? posting…
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
great to find this and ‘your honour’ on YouTube.? such memorably catchy and silly songs from my youth.
‘sell I a poun’ a dat fing here’
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
I think? is should read `I might not t’ink ’bout emigrate’.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
“try di pork noh?” hush yuh mouth, mind me bredren? hear; sell I a pound a dat ting dere!
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Thanks for this posting?
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
You’ve got the right lyrics, just the wrong song.
Try Pluto, Ram Goat? Liver.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
“whatcha know” in the lyrics really should be “watch ya now”….. means roughly “see here” or “look here, man”…… or in a different context, can also mean that some one’s getting a little bit out of order.
i always thought the beginning lyrics were “Sunday gone i jump ‘pon a minibus…i really late but is not my fault” – a classic Jamaican scenario of having an excuse at the ready for an apparent total disregard of time, not being “nearly late”…. nearly late? would be doing well.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
“herrings” is a literal way many Jamaicans would say “ear rings”….. never in all of recorded history have there been a people so prone to removing h’s from words and then plastering them where they don’t belong!… usually in front of a word starting with a vowel (bwai, you “hignorant”!) or wherever an h is supposed to be silent, the hard h will surely be used!…..
and “arnold? fat” is indeed the old timey slang name for pork…..as in Arnold The Pig from Green Acres.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
great? story telling great tune mon
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Thank for the music, it has been a long time since I heard these old? school reggae songs.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
It’s just lika flim? show!
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Another classic from the? ’70’s in Jamaica.
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
“You wan’ goat
Try beef nuh
Wha bout fowl”
LOL! Oh the memories of this? song! Thanks for posting!
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
arnold fat is? pork
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
arnold fat is? pork
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
curry good? lunch
put thee bite in yer bark
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Good sounds – some of the lyrics I’m not convinced of – those herrings are probably? ear rings, and I still haven’t a clue on Arnold Fat
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Thank you, classic? tune, still have the 45 somewhere. Good to have the words – I always wondered if it was “Arnold Fat” !
July 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Thanks? for the lyrics.