Famine

I wake up early one morning

Then I went down to Spanish town

To look for a friend of mine

Who called Seminaya

Then we started to have a little talk

About everything

About the situation

And this is what he said

He told me, "Famine, famine, famine

Mmm, famine on the land"

Ooh, I said the cost of living

Getting so high, high, high

Getting so high, high, high

Lord, so sky high

I said the cost of living

Is getting so high, high, high

Then I trod down to old harbor

To look for my brother John

To ask him, how is life

And things, and things, and things

Then we started to have a little talk

About everything

About the situation

And this is what he said

He told me, "Famine, famine, famine

Mmm, famine on the land"

Ooh, I said the cost of living

Getting so high, high, high

Really so high, high, high

Lord, so sky high

I said the situation

Is getting so high, high, high

Then I trod down to Clarendon

To look for my family

Into a little street called Train Line

That's where I was born

And we started to have a little talk

Together, together

About the situation

And this is what he said

He told me, "Famine, famine, famine

Mmm, famine on the land"

I said the cost of living

Getting so high, high, high

Really so high, high, high

Ooh, so sky high

And said this cost of living

Getting so high, high, high