Maka Dimweh

Maka, Maka, Maka Dimweh

Maka Dimweh

Maka Dimweh was a soldier

In the Guyanese army

Get sent up to Jim Jones territory

To clean up corpses

Notorious in the news when the Mark bust

Was the tent and the altar, the barrel

And the upturned mouths of the faithful

In that camp nation, poison

But up there in them jungle

Had money to find

Good US currency

These army men find

Men find money

All under rock stone an' Tootoo

Money dash 'way like toilet paper

'Well, Honey, I am bound to go

These people don't need money

Where they goin'?

Fellas find money wrapped up in kerchief and socks

Dead people money

Jaw grind pornography

And jewels, gold, and white pearl, ruby, lapis lazuli

Men find keys for motorcar park up quiet in America

Like bush meat, the immigrant want to eat

But can't bring back from dream

But no matter what trick they try

Or what hole they fold it in

That same Maka Dimweh

He woulda find it anywhere

Big bad Maka Dimweh

He finds it anywhere

Maka watch his best friend Bodhi get rip out

By a cutlass coming back from fishing

And fall on the slippery rocks above the bay

Capsize and enter between the ribbing

Rip out his particulars, and the boy's body beat-up

Till his liver get frightened, till his bile spill out

Like the white milk of egg and the scent

Was of snakes in the garden after the rain

Eyes wide open and rolling around the skull

Turn back an' come again, rock back an' turn back

And kick back and come again

Rain falling on the sea, fish falling out the bucket

And since that day, since that day

Maka coulda never eat no meat

That same Maka Dimweh

Maka, Maka, Maka Dimweh

Big bad Maka Dimweh

Oh gosh, man! Hear the vision

Maka run Florida, catch jail for DUI

Maka gone Brooklyn, he in the jungle now

Maka bust a man's chest in New York

And get five more years in Uncle Sam's jail

That same Maka Dimweh

Maka, Maka, Maka Dimweh

Rock back an' come again

Turn back an' kick back an' rock back an' come again

Turn back an' come again

Rock back an' come back an' kick back