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Reggae Fi Bernard
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Reggae Fi Bernard was released on February 23, 1999 by LKJ Records as a part of the album More Time
February 23, 1999
LabelLKJ Records
LanguageEnglish
BPM184
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

Wi nevah come fram di same blood-line
But wi pawt kriss-krass an jine
An alldow wid wananada
Wi wozn dat familiah
All di same
Wi woz family
Dats why mi a beg pawdn an tek dis libahty
An pudung a couple rime to yu memari
It come een like
A jus di adah day yu lef school
An jine di railway
Wid nuff ambishan an a fewcha plan
Yu wozn drawin big pay
But yu woz well an yu way
An jus wen yu ready fi staat
Fi goh choo-choo choo-boogie
Train cut yu journey
Shaat
Di day yu get yu laas send-awf
Fram yu bawn-groun
Before dem fly yu bady
Doun to jamdoun
Di sun stay away fram work dat day
An di slate grey january day
A sing a silent dirge
Az daak clouds daat
Inna diffrant direckshan
Callide an canverge
Merge an re-emerge
Inna blustah a emoeshan
Inna di church grey sky
An di rain it a fall inna squal
Like tear-tip arrows
Piercin di awt a di mounah dem
Di baptis church
It full-up to di brim
Owevah-flow
Pan di steps to di street
Langtime-noh-si family an fren
Meet an greet
Taakin bout yu hayste retreat
Inside mounful voices a sing
Dem familiah bittah-sweet hym
An it is well
It is well
Wid yu soul
Rude boyz bruk doun in tears
Mini skirted girls weep an wail
Dere’s a passi a black an white workaz
Fram british rail
Yu caleeg dem fram yu shaat workin years
An dere woz testimony awftah testimony
Fram yu age mate dem
Punctuated by spantaneous aplauz
Bout how yu did tall an slim an good lookin
Wid yu lang chin an yu captivatin grin
Bout yu kinenes
Bout yu carin
Bout yu tautfulnes
Bout how big an ow broad in love yu woz
Up to now wi still noh get noh prapah explanaeshan
No witnis at di stayshan no police investigaeshan
As to how yu get fi en up pan di wrang side a di track
How yu face get fi tun fram front to back
An a who yu did a taak to pan yu mobile
Dem jus call it hacksident an close yu file
Jamdoun woz yu tru dream i-lan
Noh deh soh yu did a plan
Fi mek yu final destinaeshan
Now yu dream come tru an yu touch doun
Hashis to hashis
Dus to dus
Inna Sent Elizebet sile
Written by: Linton Kwesi Johnson
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