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So you left, are now with another, but look at you now! Sleeping with someone else yet still dreaming all about the last one. A commentary on a sociopolitically correct phenomenon that very often affect even the best of relationships.

DUTTY WATER

Copyright 1992
Words and Music: K-Gi Scarlett
All Rights Reserved

1.
Jumped off ah di bed, kiss up you teeth
slammed the door and then you gone a street Dutty
Dutty water run from soap
Look pon you now hang up pon nail
Broke like rass in Ft. Lauderdale Dutty
Dutty water run from soap…a then a coulda whah dat rasta?
I could have cleaned you up (but you ran away), a make you nice and shiny
Now you sleeping with someone else and you dreaming all about me, wo yoi

CHORUS
A me same one, wo yoi old Jacky’s boy seh mi deh yah
A me me me Miss Lu’s big son (same one)
I’m the one they call the son of a gun
A me same one, wo yoi yoi yoi old Jacky’s boy seh mi deh yah
A me me me Miss Lu’s big son I ‘m a telling you
Telling you a me same one

2.
Jumped outta me car, shoot up yuh mouth
slammed the door and then you walk I out Dutty
Dutty Water run from soap
Well, look pon you now in the gutter
So-so dry bread not even piece of butter Dutty
Dutty Water run from soap
Your second-hand seem brand new but you run away and you whiney-whiney
Now you sleeping with someone else and you dreaming all about me, wo yoi

CHORUS
A me same one, wo yoi old Jacky’s boy seh mi deh yah
A me me me Miss Lu’s big son (same one)
I’m the one they call the son of a gun
A me same one, wo yoi yoi yoi old Jacky’s boy seh mi deh yah
A me me me Miss Lu’s big son I ‘m a telling you
Telling you a me same one

BREAKDOWN

Come inna me house and nyam off me corn
Stay for a while and now you’re gone
Dut-dut-dut-dut-Dutty

SOLOS

3.
Jumped outta me heart, didn’t say why
slammed the door not even waived good-bye Dutty
Dutty Water run from soap
Look pon you now old meagre dog
Time has come to write your epilogue Dutty
Dutty Water run from soap…a coulda whah dat rasta? Hey!
I could have cleaned you up (why you run away?) A make you nice and shiny
But you sleeping with someone else while you dreaming all about me, wo yoi

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