*** 1 Minit Ska ***

60 seconds make a minit
60 minits make an hour
24 hours make a day
but just now one minit has passed away

walkin one hour is a long way to go
sometimes a minit pass very very slow
sometimes an hour pass like a day
time never has a limit - oh yeah

*** Billy The Boy ***

police met billy when he go an mek some smuggling police seh billy boy, you under damn
arrest "if you pay me no money i have to mek a big attac" an billy run away, wid de police
on him back an dem seh stop it is a wrong 'em boyo stop wrong 'em boyo why do you try to
cheat give me all your hash an weed don't you know it is wrong to trust a policeman if you
smuggle all de weed and don't pay dem their money you better go straight you better go
straight to hell now sonny stop it is a wrong 'em boyo an dem seh stop wrong 'em boyo
billy boy has been shot an police come out on top don't you know it is wrong to trust a
policeman but if you must keep on smuggling all de hash an weed you got to play it billy
play you got to play it billy play, you got to play it billy play you better stop it is a
wrong 'em boyo stop wrong 'em boyo

*** Desperate ***

darling you know i love you
and you know my love for you is true

but you treated me so wrong
i cannot deal with this situation coming along
i still love you
that's honest, i do

don't, oh baby don't you leave me
don't you leave me now this will be my end

you treated me so wrong
i cannot deal with this situation coming along
i still love you
that's honest, i do
and now i'm singing this desperate song for you

but you treated me so wrong
i cannot deal with this situation coming along
i still love you
that's honest, i do

but when i think back the story from the very start
i had a lot to give and i gave from my heart
i thought it was love but you just played an evil card
when i think back the story from the very start
i know this is the end

*** Gunman ***

cool and put on you no gun
look for the terrorists walkin' up and down
cool and put on you no gun
like a canon or a magnum i say dem not welcome

stop gun fabrication, it's not a way to unite
stop gun fabrication, we don't need guns to fight

cool and put on you no gun
stop heat up the scene, you better drink milk and not rum
cool and put on you no gun
stop screw up your face jus like a devil sent you come

stop gun fabrication, it's not a way to unite
stop gun fabrication, we don't need guns to fight

cool and put on you no gun
look for the terrorists walk up and down
cool and put on you no gun
me a bill me popularity me is jus a blossom
cool and put on you no gun
when me hear about a dance me no want look dong
cool and put on you no gun
me full up lyrics an me jus cyaan dun
cool and put on you no gun
an allow dem people mek dem ave some fun
cool and put on you no gun
like a canon or a magnum i seh dem not welcome

cool and put on you no gun
look for the terrorists walking up and down
cool and put on you no gun
an allow the people - just allow the people - now allow the people to let them have some fun

stop gun fabrication, it's not a way to unite
stop gun fabrication, we don't need guns to fight

stop gun fabrication, it's not a way to unite
stop gun fabrication, we don't need guns to fight

*** Mr. Big ***

My walkin' feet feel that the street
i am walkin' today is not real
is not the street i take to work everyday
but the man on the other side of the street
is the same i meet
every day
on my way (is he reality?)

they call him mr. big - (how big is he?)
big like a fish in a prehistoric sea
they call him mr. big
he's big like a tree

my ears hear music from a distant homeland
a far away land I've never been before
and i dont understand why this music sound this intimate to me

now we're dancin' to the sound of the dub
and we find that this was our only fun
but mr.big come
an bring fun
to everyone in this land

that's why they call him mr. big - (how big is he?)
big like a fish in a prehistoric sea
they call him mr. big
he's big like a tree

*** Mr. Urquart ***

mr. urquart had a house in the beautifull south
he bought it for his wife, for a better way of life
mrs. urquart suffered from rheumatism
I dr. deadlock say leave your english prison

and go to italy,the country of big history
where emperors oppressed the people steadily
long time before the english learned to make tea
this is the best place for you old lady

chorus:
mr. urquart from north england
never really had a very lucky hand
mr. urquart and his wife they wanted
a better way of life

mr. urquart said: my dear beloved wife
I bought for this house for a better way of life
it won't take too much time if we take the aeroplane
but poor mr. urquart what he did was all in vain

mrs. urquart said: you dumb little whimp
I am afraid of aeroplanes we have to take the ship

I dr. deadlock say mrs. urquart don't go
you cannot take the ship because the ship is too slow
too long on the sea is not good for your bones
the thing to take you to the south is the train alone

mr. urquart from north england
never really had a very lucky hand
mr. urquart and his wife wanted a better way of life
but he never really had a very lucky hand

mr. urquart from north england
never really had a very lucky hand
made a mistake at central station and took the train to poland
............yes he never had a lucky hand at all

that's mr. urquart from north england

*** She Came ***

(4x)
she came that day
i remember the day
what should i say - i asked her to stay
if she wants - and she wants (3x)
and now my love is gone

*** Ska A Gogo ***

I don't know the rock and the roll
can not sing funk and soul
I don't know the bluegrass and jazz
boy, my singing is a mess
I can't sit upon the rhythm'n'blues
cannot jump up with my blue suede shoes
can't sing like jacko chants along
I just can do one song

chorus:
the only song I know, is the ska a gogo
the ska a gogo is the only song I know
though I am no part of the yardland called jamaica
I feel like jamaica is part of my body and part of my soul

no matter how I try all the day
no matter how I sing all the way
I can't even sing a little thing for a school pickney
hip a hopical pop and disco and tekkno is all wrong
there's only one song I can sing all the day
and all the night long

chorus

*** Ska Is Our Business ***

the animals are breakin' out of zoo
and the watchers don't know what they need to do
animals - they make the hottest sound
animals - you can't stop them now
animals it's the story of a band
ska - is our business
the animals break in a music store
play instruments they hadn't had before
animals - they make the hottest sound
animals - you can't stop them now
animals it's the story of a band
ska - is our business

*** Soldier ***

soldier run across de battle field with a gun in him right hand an in him left him shield
lookin to find someone overthere where lightning flash, someone seh "tek care!" same time
bomb crash when come down. leave a hole in de burning ground. leave a whole heap a blood but
soldier

(chorus):
soldier cyaan find him grave - 4x

soldier still run across de battlefield
cyaan find the hole in de ground where him gwaan satta an fall asleep for him feel well week
an him don't want to hear no more bad sound of dying people crying all around. soldier don't
know why HIM save

(chorus)

a little gaal an two son an a
pretty young woman him pickney and him wife die when air raid come soldier don't know why HIM
still alive if him coulda find a crater be him grave because him don't want no longer stay
slave. if him coulda find a bullet be him friend. yes him war weary an him cyaan see no end.

(chorus)

*** Stay With Me ***

stay with me (4x)
stay with me - hey you pretty little girl
stay with me - do some skankin to me all night
stay with me - an do some lickilickilicki babe
stay with me - with your body and your soul

my girl is gone away - i feel so sad today (2x)

stay with me (4x)
stay with me - hey you pretty little girl
stay with me - with your blue baby eyes
stay with me - i show you the whole wide world
stay with me - and i give you all my love
all my love (4x)