People Will Talk [Song]

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PEOPLE WILL TALK
By King Fighter [Guyana]

Not only here in the West Indies, but I find people is hard to please
This is really true doh matter wey you do
I ent talking nonsense, this is practical experience
Don't mind how you try, they will criticise and I don't know why.

If you changing steady and you looking fancy,
They they will say how you showing off
And if you keeping yourself like a badjohn,
They will watch and laugh
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause if is not how you dress, is the way that you walk
The people will talk.

Take for instance when I was small, everyday is a bacchanal
Well, I always misbehaving with ------- and street fighting
Well, they talk all over the place, how I so bad and I out of place
Now I playing cool and easy, well, the same people say how I stupidee.

How I can't even fight, ---------- stepping light
With mih socks and shoe on mih feet
And how I playing I dis and I playing I dat
And like a girl, mih skin smelling sweet
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause if is not how you dress, is the way that you walk
The people will talk.

If a man have an ugly head like Yul Brynner
They will laugh 'til they nearly dead
Anywey he turn, Ha! Look de clean head man!
But if you head good looking good like mine
They will say that's a nice design
Nothing in this world, like you can't please people with at all.

If you changing steady and you looking fancy,
They they will say how you showing off
And if you keeping yourself like a badjohn,
They will watch and laugh
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause if is not how you dress, is the way that you walk
The people will talk.

In 1961, I was living in Shanty Town
Some people say how I going mad to choose the worst place in Trinidad
I leave the place and I went up San Fernando
I buy a big, fancy bungalow
Friends, I wouldn't lie, the same people say how I flying high.

If you changing steady and you looking fancy,
They they will say how you showing off
And if you keeping yourself like a badjohn,
They will watch and laugh
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause you could black like tar or white like a chalk
The people will talk.

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!

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Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare