Di Good Life Lyrics - Singles - Linton Kwesi Johnson

Sowshallism 

is a wise ole shephad 

im suvvie tru flood 

tru drout 

tru blizad 

somme people seh 

im a two hundred an odd years ole 

addah people seh 

notn noh goh soh 

dat im a jus seventy odd years ole 

some seh im is a ghost 

some seh im is a sage 

but nohbady noh really know 

im riteful age ar whey im come fram 

fateful is im flock 

from di ewe to di ram to di Iam 

rite tru tick an tin 

dem mostly cling to im 

awftah all 

noh im guide an sheltah an proteck dem ? 

( sometime a dem haffi proteck im dow 

like ow a dem haffi proteck im now ) 

look ow im stretch out pan im back 

pan di brown grass 

di white hair pan im branze hed 

like a kushan gense di weepin willow tree 

lookin bedraggled an tin 

like seh life done wid im 

like seh im is totally at peace widin 

noh baddah goh feel sarry fi im 

ar goh tink poor ting 

nat a ting noh dhu im 

all dat really happn 

is dat due to di heat a di time 

like lickle bwoy blue im drap asleep 

an a dream bout lickle bow peep 

an wan an two a im flock dem drif a way 

while di addah ism dem 

jus a watch an a peep 

jus a crawl an a creep 

an noh baddah ask if dem naw mek fun 

fi canfuse an cansume all di stray dem 

but evryting is jus fi a time 

soon di flack wi tek a stack an surmise 

ow far fram di fole dem a stray 

wen dem site ow di pack jus a staak dem 

dem wi come back togeddah wance agen 

an shephad di sage to a highah graun 

whichpawt di graas is greenah an sweetah 

whichpawt di breeze blow is like a balm 

whichpawt di stream run quietah an coolah 

whichpawt life can pleasant can be calm