We Like It So - Mighty Sparrow

Neighbour, look, if I was a selfish man

I wouldn’t be involved in this election

I done old already, I ain’t want fame

Plus I ain’t looking for fortune again

All I asking is that you pay close attention

To the many problems we all face from dawn to dawn

You’re intelligent, I think, and you should face issues

But you behaving like a moron, cussin' me for wey I born

But yuh pipe ain’t have no water, you pay too much for butter

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

The terrible school system is such a bloody problem

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Agriculture’s in a state, planning is inadequate

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

The northern and southern idol, the two kingpins of bobbol

We know!

We like it so!

(We like it so! We free!)

Anything that’s wrong, he go put it right

Georgie Porgy tell we the other night

So instead of displaying impatience

Cool yourself and give de fella a chance

How the hell you could say O.N.R.

go do better?

Bet we send you back Grenada in a drum

We and Georgie going to put it right together

We have freeness and freedom, plenty roti, plenty rum

Hospitals have no linen, is brown paper they using

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Public transportation is an abomination

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Well, food, clothes, and rent is proof

Cost of living gone through the roof

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Classified information for personal gain is common

We know!

We like it so!

(We like it so! We free!)

Sparrow, boy, you need psychiatric aid

To be in them bourgeois people motorcade

Me ain’t 'fraid to tell you straight to yuh face

You backing a jackass in a horse race

Georgie say all you ain’t getting one damn seat

O.N.R.

come out to mamaguy

Bokassa say how all yuh going to feel the heat

The penalty to oppose is high, that’s political suicide

We can’t get house so we squat, living with cockroach and rat

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Yuh cesspit flowing over, you could catch yellow fever

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Soldier in bulldozer break down meh shack in Morvant

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Is plenty sexual favours to be a ten days worker

We know!

We like it so!

(We like it so, We free!)

It ain’t have a single thing you could say

Could make me abandon meh balisier

No steel beam go fall down on top meh head

Sparrow, I’s a P.N.M.

till I dead

Birdie, you may be shock when ah tell you this

Hudson-Phillips is a Yankee C.I.A

And the whole of O.N.R.

is only communists

They’ll take Carnival away and make people work each day

Is years you in ah union and can’t get recognition

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

The unemployment levy murdering everybody

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Children come out of college below elementary knowledge

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

We grieving with frustration through maladministration

We know!

We like it so!

(We like it so! We free!)

This concern that you showing here for we

Could well cost you your popularity

Francisco, how come you ain’t understand?

We ain’t want no blasted opposition

Just like Georgie Porgy, I done sharpen my gilpin

Waiting for the opposition tail

Anytime we catch them only backpedaling

I ain’t even want no bail, I ain’t 'fraid to make a jail

Food you could produce here is imported from elsewhere

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

To fish in yuh own water is jail in Venezuela

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

No one to devise for we a good foreign policy

(Take yuh steel beam and go!)

Bribery and corruption control every decision

We know!

We like it so!

(We like it so. We free!)