Memba wen yuh do all yuh homework at school so dat as yuh reach home
you ramp so til you hear smadddy shout out “yuh madda a ccooooommme!”
and yuh dash inna yuh house and change outa yuh school uniform
as yuh would surely get a beaten fi inna yuh uniform till 6pm.

Memba when yuh go school 7 days a week fi keep yuh outa trouble.
Mon – Frid  regular school and private lesson, saturday class ,
and sunday school at church which is a half day affair.

Memba wen yuh kick poopah lick and bu’st out you pants and you get beaten
Memba 10 cent bulla and jackass corn.
Memba when you turn on the tv at 4pm and wait till JBC sign on at 5pm,
stand at attention sing the national anthem, and den sit back and watch some cartoon.
And dont figet di Big Bwoy story whey you did haffi hide and tell.

MEMBA WEN!!!
Memba wen yu a come fram school and stop fi pick Mass John cherry
off ‘im cherry tree and dawg run yu dung.
Memba wen yu madda sen yu fi tek the clothes fram affa di line
but yu wait til night den yu fraid fi go by yuself.
Memba wen yu fraid fi go a shop by yuself a night because
Miss Matty jus’ dead and yu tink yu might si har duppy.
Memba wen yu and yu fren dem decide seh unu a go run a boat,
the biggest cart wheel dumplin yu eva si!

Memba wen coming fram school ina di rain and yu tek off yu shoes and
walk barefoot all the way home a race board horse inna di gutter water.
Memba wen dem use fi gi weh free milk powder and bulga rice a school,
an’ yu play milk powder war all the way home.
Memba wen dem good rice and peas and chicken Sunday dinna with a nice
refreshing glass a carrot juice.
Memba wen yu ‘ave roast breadfruit and ackee and salt fish breakfast
jus’ barely a day afta yu Saturday Peas soup wid cho-cho, turnip, carrot an’ punkin.

Memba wen teacha beat yu cause yu neva do yu homework.
Memba marning time wen yu reach a school jus in time fi devotion and
yu betta mek sure yu ave yu hym book and yu bible,
yu pleat dem betta in order and yu khaki well starch.
Memba dem good ole starch uniform ( coudda stan up by demself )
and yu nice shine brown or black shoes.
Memba when yu madda use fi seh “Go pick a switch mek a beat yu”.

MEMBA WEN!!!
Memba Christmas time wen everybody a mek a suit fi gran market night,
mama stay up a bake cake, draw sorrell, cook curry goat,
don’t figet the case a D&G soda and red stripe beer weh unda the bed.
Memba when a ginnep seed fly dung yu throat and
smaddy ‘ave fi lick yu back fi mek it fly back up.
Memba when yu swallow chewing gum & dem seh yu ago ded
cause it ago tie up yu tripe

Memba a come fram school and stap fi get the last piece a Miss Brown toeto and a sky juice.
Memba dem seh nuh buy nuh sky juice fram Mr. Tom because ‘im ave sore foot.
Memba when dem seh nuh buy bun & cheeze from Juicie
cause him use di knife fi cut & clean him toenail.

Memba saving part a lunch money fi buy ice cream fram creamy
weh come pan Sunday.
Memba a fling stone fi lick dung ginnep and the stone
bus yu bredda head.
Memba the peanut man…the jackfruit lady…the orange man… the sarda-pan man

MEMBA WEN!!!
Memba a play marble wid yu bredren dem.
Memba a go a bush wid yu fadda.
Memba a go undaneat the cellar fi the fowl egg (yes I do)

Memba a jump rope wid yu fren dem….
One two Beeny…
lick im mek im feel eh,
mek im know yu mean eh,
yu mean eh, yu mean eh.

Memba playing “Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack,
All Dressed In Black Black Black “…
Memba a kick foot ball wid yu fren dem roun’ a ball grong
Memba when Cristmus come and we watch JohnCunu jump up and down
and we get fraid?

MEMBA WEN!!!
Memba yu madda sen yu go a shop and yu sing the list all the way deh
“one pint milk, one bread, 1 lb a flour.  ”one pint milk, one bread, 1 lb a flour.
But wen yu reach deh, yu tell the shop keeper yu want
“1 pint of bread, 1 lb of milk & a flour.
Memba when yu last yu madda money and yu fraid fi go back home because
she might beat yu.

Memba settin up the roosta dem fi fight
Memba all dem good duppy story, and nancy story wi ‘ear growing up.
Memba how yu use to fraid fi walk a night cause yu tink sey
black-heart-man wodda tek yu weh.
Memba when bokkle cut yu foot bottam dung a gully.

Memba when yu use to stone Missa Smith mango tree dem,
and we use to tink seh him have gun.
Memba when yu left all day and go a rivva an go cook
and when yu come home yu get a beaten.
Memba when yu unifarm get dirty Monday marning,
and Yu madda beat yu ina di evening.

IF YU MEMBA ANY OF THIS, YU OLD TO RAHTID!!