Poverty

If you hungry, you is a boy (yes!)
 If you and your woman hungry, you is a damn
 Boy (yes!)
 And if you and your woman and your pickney
 Hungry, you is a piece of. mmm, mmm
 Woke up and look at poverty this morning
 Said to poverty, "you can't stay inna me
 Yard" (come out!)
 So me tek up me cutlass and start to do some
 Farming
 While some man lef' dem country from early
 This morning, and
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Dem nuh want a job
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Let me remind you
 Poverty knocking at their door in their back yard
 Hear me!
 Soon and very soon the red sun will be rising
 It gone to the West, coming forward from the
 East
 And along with that, Mr. Hungry with a long
 Knife will be following
 And always him and him bound to get a stab
 Don't you hear me when I say?
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Can't you hear me when I say?
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Not even a pound of sugar
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Don't you hear me when I say?
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 (.)
 Some a dem run away an' leave their country
 (Mi nah go back!)
 Claiming that they can't find nothing to do
 They refuse from their grandfather - do the
 Farming
 And tek up a gun, just want some quick money
 But dust to dust and ash to ash, life get funny
 An' you gone down ah??, down in a piece of old
 Box, Lord
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Hear me when I say
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 No mentality
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Where is your mentality?
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 "You nuh see after me sharpen my cutlass
 And go build up my garden
 I don't want go work for a man for a farthing
 Because my heart will harden"
 Wake up and look at poverty early this morning
 (Come outside!)
 Saying to him you just can't stay inna Rasta
 Yard (you nuh hear?)
 So me tek up me 'lass and then mi start to do
 Some farming
 Fi mek mi name nuh go fi thief and gone abroad
 For poverty knocking at the door in their back
 Yard
 All because dem lazy
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard??
 Poverty knocking at the door in their back yard
 Run away and leave them, Dread!