Don't Be Quick To Judge [Song]

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DON'T BE QUICK TO JUDGE
By Lord Blakie

This is a thing I could never understand,
The way that some people does judge a man
This is a thing I could never understand,
The way that some people does judge a man
You may be walking down the road, your clothes looking dirty
They will count you as a nobody
I find these people, they should have more care
Never judge a man by the clothes he wear.

So when you see John looking so cute in jacket and tie
Don't believe that John is so much a decent guy
Because that may not be so
He may be a big thief for all you know
That's why we must understand
Is not the clothes, is the mind that does make the man.

Never judge a man by his outward appearance
Dirty or clean, that don't make no difference
A man may be poor and haven't a cent
And making a living by mixing cement
This time, his neighbour, John, who is a lawyer
Not as happy as that poor labourer
Money really play a very important part
But it's better when you have a contented heart.

So when you see Craig coming down the road and looking nasty
Don't believe that he come from a nasty hog family
Because we know him in Port of Spain
Craig is a man have a lot of brain
That's why I want them to know
Is not the man, is somebody that put him so.

Some people does be too quick to judge a man
That is something I can't understand
Some fellahs does be dirty, that isn't a lie
Plenty children to mind, that's the reason why
When the week up they does have to bawl
To mind they wife and they children the money too small
And when they pay they house rent, that is the fact
They cannot even buy a shirt to put on they back.

So when you see a man coming down the road and looking nasty
Don't believe that he come from a nasty hog family
This time he may have children to support
And 'fraid he wife put him in the court
That's why that mister wouldn't bail
He don't want the magistrate to send him in jail.

So I warning these young girls who have a care
When they running into men with these fancy wear
Soon as they see anything unclean
Is because they falling down head over heel
And, partner, before you could wink your eye
You could hardly see they face, fus they belly high
And when the mark buss and you get to hear the score
Is the motor car they making the baby for.

So when you see John looking so cute in jacket and tie
You mustn't feel that John is so much a decent guy
Because that may not be so
He may be a big thief for all you know
That's why we must understand
Is not the clothes, is the mind that does make the man.

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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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Lord Blakie.

"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