Testo Jamaican - Macka B
Testo della canzone Jamaican (Macka B), tratta dall'album Riddim Rider Volume 8: Columbus
Well it's about time them recognize Jamaican as an official language
Known as Patois, but Patois is English that's broken
But it's not broken, it's a language that's universally spoken
Jamaican, that a way you talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way you talk sista
Jamaican, that a way you talk me bredda
Jamaican, talk how you talk sista
Not so long ago down in Africa
We were talking African to one another
Some wicked man come cross we border
Say we a di slave and say him a di owner
Put we pon a big ship together
Separate the mother, father, sister and bredda
Put a man from Ghana with a man from Nigeria
One a talk Ashanti, one a talk Yoruba
Try to mix we up so we don't understand
Dem forget a African invent communication
We take dem English, put in we African
And touch a Arawak, Indian and we get
Jamaican, that a so we talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way we talk sista
Jamaican, talk how you talk me bredda
Jamaican, yeah, man
Everywhere me go, people waan learn Jamaican
Dem love the sound, dem love the vibration
Dem love the grammar, the word combination
Spoken inna Jamaica by the whole of the nation
Some people tell you say you haffi talk the English
Dem think Jamaican is a lower language
We talk the English when we want, but listen to this
Out of the English and Jamaican which sound the sweetest?
Look at that (Coo deh)
What for? (Fi wah?)
Go away (Gweh)
Look here (Coo yah)
Here (Yah suh), there (Yah suh)
Where are you going? (A weh yah go?)
Come over here (Come yah nuh)
I see (A woo)
What are you eating? (Weh yah nyam?)
That's how I am (A so me tan)
Leave me alone (Lef' me nuh)
Go on (Ga' long)
Fengky fengky, labba labba
Su su su su, bu bu yaga
Pya pya, chaka chaka
Ray ray, wara wara
Cyaan forget the influence of Rasta
Give dem the Ital and the Irie and the Isians
A yah, you have your language, you can chat how you waan
Nobody cyaan tell you say you cyaan
Jamaican, that a way you talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way you talk sista
Jamaican, talk how you talk me bredda
Jamaican, talk how you talk sista
Jamaican, that a way you talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way you talk sista
Jamaican, talk how you talk me bredda
Jamaican, talk how you talk sista
Whether you call it Jamaican or you call it Patois
A the language of the people dem from Jamaica
It based upon the English but that no matter
Most languages based pon another
English, it isn't old English, kinda new
Come from other languages like languages do
If you think English is English through and through
Maccabae has got news for you
Cah words like dinghy and bungalow are Bengali
Admiral is Arabic, also safari
Noodle and poodle and swindle and strudel
And wrangle and snargle come from Germany
Hallelujah, jubilee are from the Hebrew
Bandana is from Hindi, also shampoo
Manager, propaganda, umbrella, influenza
Ghetto studio are Italian too
Kidnap and trip, they are Danish
Sauna is Finnish, brick is Flemish
Biscuit and picnic and trophy and dentist and chauffeur
All come from the French language
December, November, October, September
Comes from the Latin, so does August
Splinter and plug and drug, they are Dutch
You no see the English, it mix up?
Jamaican, that a way we talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way you talk sista
Jamaican, talk how you talk me bredda
Jamaican, talk how you talk sista
Jamaican, that a way we talk me bredda
Jamaican, that a way you talk sista
Jamaican, talk how you talk me bredda
Jamaican, talk how you talk sista
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Writer(s): Moses Davis, Clayton Damoy Morrison
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