Ghetto Life

I'm the victor
Couldn't be a victim no
Rasta man a trample
Just listen up
Let this register Yea
Babylon cahh tek we fi a damn fool

Lone don You been through ghetto life
You can go through anything
Lucky yuh mek it through de night
Iron balls whistling
Mama de worry bout morning light
If she can guh find anything
Fi har kids dem white squall a bite

Ahh Lone don
This type a life
This type a life
Mek yuh tough like any nail
Nah guh soft like baby wipes
De food nuh right
Its no delight
JPS dem a thief
In return we thief de light (ahh)
Just cannot be smart
A really fortnight
Because de salary a fart
Ghetto life
Slimey like a nose naught
Nuh bada dose off
Sistahs
Nuh tek yuh clothes off
Ahh

You been through ghetto life
You can go through anything
Lucky yuh mek it through de night
Iron balls whistling
Mama de worry bout morning light
She ago find anything
Fi har kids white squall a bite
ooh

Wuk fi nothing
That's what a slave is
Real alli button
Bun up all yuh wages
Nuh judge de book by de cover
Check de pages
Black woman and child
Now at rages
Low de higglers
Mek she juggle nuh
Duh trouble de taxi man dem
Cause me sure dem neva trouble yuh
Yuh gi dem gun and tell dem buss de carbine
Den yuh seh de garrison full up a crime
Hear me now nuh

Have You been through ghetto life
Den You can go through anything
Lucky yuh mek it through de night
Iron balls whistling
Mama de worry bout morning light
If she can find anything
Fi har kids white squall a bite
(Fi har kids white squall a bite)
Whit squall a bite

Oh lord (ooh)
Save us all (ooh)
Oh lord (ooh)
Save us all (ooh)
Oh lord (ooh)
Save us all (ooh)
(ooh)
Yea

I've been through ghetto life
I can go through anything
I'm blessed I make it through de night
Iron balls whistling
Mama used to cry
I see the tears from her eyes
Fi har kids white squall a bite
White squall a bit
yea