You Can't Finish Pleasing People [Song]

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YOU CAN'T FINISH PLEASING PEOPLE
By Lord Commander

Ey! I living mih own life to suit me, I ent businessing nobody
I living mih own life to suit me, I ent businessing nobody
If you do good, they got something to say
And when you bad, they talk you the same way
Black and white, everybody does talk each other
And even go so far to include the Commander.

But that doh worry me...

For anywhere you go, people will say things of you
Doh matter what you do
And whether good or bad, even if is lie or is true
They know your business better than you [You cyah talk mih bad]
And if you follow them, you surely go crazy and drown yourself in the sea
And that is why you see I going to live mih own life to suit me
Man, and to hell with everybody!

And when a man can't get work, dey say how he lazy
When you working plenty, they calling you slavery
If you can't change your clothes, they say how you nasty
When you dressing plenty, dey say dey never see come see.
If you have a little raise, they say you spend big pappy
And then if you poor, dey does call you hungry
They will bad talk from the sovereign lady
Down to the dead people inside the cemetery.

But that doh worry me...

For anywhere you go people will say things of you
Doh matter what you do
And whether good or bad, even if is lie or is true
They know your business better than you [You cyah talk mih bad]
And if you follow them, you surely go crazy and drown yourself in the sea
And that is why you see I going to live mih own life to suit me
Man, and to hell with everybody!

If a man beat he wife, dey say how he wicked
And if his wife does beat him, dey say she have him stupid
Worse when he speak to her, if she does answer him rude
And he have little bald head, dey say he eating bad food
If you son doh resemble you, dey say not yuh child
You madam could be ah angel, dey go say she wild
And when a woman can't breed, dey call she a mule
And when she making children, dey does say she playing the fool.

But that doh worry me...

For anywhere you go, people will say things of you
Doh matter what you do
And whether good or bad, even if is lie or is true
They know your business better than you [You cyah talk mih bad]
And if you follow them, you surely go crazy and drown yourself in the sea
And that is why you see I going to live mih own life to suit me
Man, and to hell with everybody!

Well, a man make one jail, dey call you vagabond
When you living decent, dey say you playing gentleman
If you like yuh church, dey criticise your religion
When you like the courthouse, dey say you adoring confusion
Or if you young and very sickly, dey say you going and break down
And when you old and moving quickly, dey say you playing young
You can't stop dem from talking, all how you try
Dey bad talk you before you born and after you die.

But that doh worry me...

For anywhere you go, people will say things of you
Doh matter what you do
And whether good or bad, even if is lie or is true
They know your business better than you [You cyah talk mih bad]
And if you follow them, you surely go crazy and drown yourself in the sea
And that is why The Commander going to live he own life to suit he
Man, and to hell with everybody!

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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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

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