Rotin'

Eh Ernest, Papa Ernest

Ernest Koroma

President of Salone

Eh, Ernest, Papa Ernest

Ernest Koroma

President of Salone

When I go with bubu music abroad

My people don't even help me

Some white people take this music

And take it right up there

And when they finish

They bring me down the mountain

Mountain, Mountain, Mountain, Valley

Which kind of trouble these people are giving me?

Mountain, Mountain, Mountain, Valley

Which kind of hard times am I seeing?

Mountain, Mountain, Mountain, Valley

They are looking at me like they don't even know me

Mountain, Mountain, Mountain, Valley

And this, our people of Salone don't help our children

A Letter, A Letter, A Letter, I'm writing a

Letter to Sierra Leone

The breeze fly with my feather - the feather that the eagle gives to me

And the eagle broke my pot that I used to go fetch water with

And this pot is given to me by the termites

The termites ate my walking stick - the walking stick that Bomo gave me

And Bomo ate my bird - the bird that I killed down the valley

Man, I ain't got shit!