Galang dada   Galang gwwaan yaw sah   Yu nevvah ad noh life fi live   Jus di wan life fi give      Yu did yu time pan ert   Yu nevvah get yu jus dizert   Galang goh smile inna di sun   Galang goh satta inna di palace af peace      O di waatah   It soh deep   Di waatah   It soh daak   An it full a hawbah shaak      Di lan is like a rack   Slowly shattahrin to san   Sinkin in a sesa af calamity   Where fear breed shadows      Dat lurks in di daak   Where people fraid fi waak   Fraid fi tink fraid fi taak   Where di present is haunted by di pass      A deh soh mi bawn   Get fi know bout staam   Learn fi cling to di dawn   An wen mi hear mi daddy sick   Mi quickly pack an tek a trip      Mi nevvah have noh time   When mi reach   Fi si noh sunny beach   Wen mi reach   Jus people a live in shack   People livin back-to-back      Mongst cackroach an rat   Mongst dirt an dizeez   Subjek to terrorist attack   Political intrigue   Kanstant grief   An noh sign af relief      O di grass   Turn brown   Soh many trees   Cut doun   An di lan is ovahgrown      Fram country to toun   Is jus tissel an tawn   Inna di woun a di poor   Is a miracle ow dem endure      Di pain nite an day   Di stench af decay   Di clarin sights   Di guarded affluence   Di arrogant vices   Cole eyes af kantemp   Di mackin symbals af independence      A deh soh mi bawn   Get fi know bout staam   Learn fi cling to di dawn   An wen di news reach mi   Seh mi wan daddy ded   Mi ketch a plane quick      An wen mi reach mi sunny isle   It woz di same ole style   Di money well dry   Di bullits dem a fly      Plenty innocent a die   Many rivahs run dry   Ganja planes flyin' high      Di poor man im a try   Yu tink a lickle try im try   Holdin' awn bye an bye   Wen a dallah cyaan buy   A lickle dinnah fi a fly      Galang dada   Galang gwaan yaw sah   Yu nevvah ad noh life fi live   Jus di wan life fi give      Yu did yu time pan ert   Yu nevvah get yu jus dizert   Galang goh smile inna di sun   Galang goh satta inna di palace af peace      Mi know yu couldn't tek it dada   Di anguish an di pain   Di suffahrin di prablems di strain   Di strugglin in vain      Fi mek two ens meet   Soh dat dem pickney coulda get   A lickle someting fi eat   Fi put cloaz pan dem back      Fi put shoes pan dem feet   Wen a dallah cyaan buy   A lickle dinnah fi a fly      Mi know yu try dada   Yu fite a good fite   But di dice dem did loaded   An di card pack fix   Yet still yu reach fifty-six      Before yu lose yu leg wicket   ' A noh yu bawn grung here'   Soh wi bury yu a stranger's burying groun   Near to mhum an cousin Daris   Nat far fram di quarry   Doun a August Town