CHO: Oh Mama, Oh my little Mama, your big son, naa let you down / Oh Mama, Oh my little Mama, your big son naa let you down
Phone rings, well a who is this on the line now, Mama what a wonderful surprise / Girl how you doing you’ve been here on my mind, me buy the phone card today was gonna call you about nine / So mek we chat, long time we no reason, but with the youths dem and the music season / It’s so hard for us to stay in touch but you’re still my favorite girl, Yeah / So how’s life? Kingston Jamaica? The family and mi likkle girlfriend Sheranda, shhhh, No mek wifey know ‘bout her please, big secret between you and me
Mama laugh she say you’re just like your father, Silent River but yaa big lady killa / Cho Mama no mek it look so bad, you’re
still my number one / Ooh Mama sometime me feel so bad, me know me nuh call and it mek you sad / But nothing can’t part this yah love we have, You’re still my number one
Tell me Mama, how is your health? Mama neva answer, She naa hear so well, So me affi say it likkle louder / How is your health, You check the blood pressure? / Stop shout inna me ears bwoy, yu know me a yu Mother?
Me start think because me know me Madda a something mussi wrong mek she a go round the answer / Mama memba a you
big son de ya, can’t fool me this a Buckley Jr. / So how is your health, when last you go a doctor? / No worry bout dat it inna the hands o’ the Father
Me knees start fi knock me heart a beat faster, Mama say sit down me aggo give you the answer
Well wa day dem get me vex, dem run whole heap a test / Di likkle dutty doctor all a feel up mi chest / Me naa go mek you guess you know me the best / Dem say six months and you will be motherless
Me drop the phone, get the loan, lock up the home, and done book mi ticket fi go straight a Jamaica / Fifty big box mi bring fi
di doctor / Can’t believe him really say dah ‘C’ word there to my little Mama
The world knows my Mama, she’s a very special Lady / Father please don’t take her away from me not until she sees,
A little bit of good livity / I remember growing up wasn’t easy, but she was always there fi me, sacrifice her life fi we, Now she’s my responsibility/ Rpt. Chorus
credits
from Jah Is The Only King,
released November 20, 2012
Lyrics: Henry G. Buckley Jr., Music: Kemar Flava McGregor / Published by: Buckley Songs (ASCAP) | Kemar Flava McGregor /
Produced by: Kemar Flava McGregor & Sadiki / All vocals: Sadiki / Recorded by: Kemar Flava McGregor & Sadiki / Mixed by: Kemar Flava McGregor