If the Table Turn

You gotta take a stand
From a bad man, listen yah bad man
Unnu mad man
Mi a tell unnu straight
Well listen mi a say man
Check it
Hear weh mi a say

Hey ghetto youth
Stop gwan like you a coot
Anuh every man you see
You fi waan shoot
Just hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, oh yeah
And give the man a chance
'Cause one day you ago want
The same kind of chance
When the table turn
So hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, mmm hmm

Just check this
Imagine you a the one
Who stand in front of the gun
And you know a the last time
You ago see Jah Jah sun
Your eyes get a weary
And your belly start run, start run
Yow yow
When you remember your kids
And remember your wife
You begging for a mercy to save your life
A this way you ago know
Your action wasn't right, never right
Yow yow

Hey ghetto youth
Stop gwan like you a coot
Anuh every man you see
You fi waan shoot
Just hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, oh yeah
And give the man a chance
'Cause one day you ago want
The same kind of chance
When the table turn
So hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, mmm hmm

Look at that
You kill the teacher woman
And you stab the principal
Fi get a likkle cash
Fi give a to your gal
You never know say that it woulda be so crucial, crucial
Yow yow
Now everyday you kill a man
And rob a man to pay your bill
You never know say time woulda catch up pon you still
And now your body gone pon the ice gun chill, gun chill
Whoa

Hey ghetto youth
Stop gwan like you a coot
Anuh every man you see
You fi waan shoot
Just hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, oh yeah
And give the man a chance
'Cause one day you ago want
The same kind of chance
When the table turn
So hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, mmm hmm

Say you a drive in a Lada
A rape and kill the seven year old a Old Lava
Seven dead a Portmore, Braeton, Bada
The country it a run mess up out of order
Order, order, order, order yow
Now you haffi give account fi the present and the past
Remember God a God and no man nah go last
Every man him haffi give account to the bigger boss
Oh yes, oh yes

Hey ghetto youth
Stop gwan like you a coot
Anuh every man you see
You fi waan shoot
Just hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, oh yeah
And give the man a chance
'Cause one day you ago want
The same kind of chance
When the table turn
So hold it down
Mi a beg unnu fi hold it down, mmm hmm

Ghetto youth
Just remember unnu haffi say no foolishness
You know say unnu haffi take heed and no slip up
See mi a say
I done know that Jah love is strong
And Jah is always to the right to never wrong
That's what we a say
Life is abomination
Say unnu haffi take heed and no slip up