[Ice Breaker Riddim]

Intro:
Mek dem know this

Jamaica!

Chorus

We not going down,
and dem huff an
dem a puff and dem a frown.
Cyan tek di ghetto youth dem fi clown
cause what goes around,
comes all the way around
Too much man a get slew
you betta watch what u say or do
Cause it just might happen to u
When u work hard but chosen a few
(I)
Got some news today
(I)
how much ghetto youths dem slay.
(I)
got some things to say
(I)
there must be a brighter way.
Verse 1

Tell dem fi stop from bus up di glac and put down the mac
some a gwan like dem cyan do without it.
To how the time a go nah, thank god for the life weh we got
cause we cyan live without it.

Chorus
We not going down
and dem huff an
dem a puff and
dem a frown.
Cyan tek di ghetto youth dem fi clown
cause what goes around,
comes all the way around.

Too much man a get slew.
You betta watch what u say or do
cause it just might happen to u
when u work hard but chosen a few.

verse 2

Some cyan find food, to how di place a run.
some cyan go a school, to how di place a run.
Man a bruk all di rule, to how di place a run.
Tell dem nuh badda pick up di gun, put it down.

Politician trick we, then turn round kick we.
Wap'm to the education me pickney.
Reality check, when di bills dem lick me
mi call pon the fada quickly busy (busy)

Chorus
We not going down
and dem huff an
dem a puff and
dem a frown.
Cyan tek di ghetto youth dem fi clown
cause what goes around,
comes all the way around.

Too much man a get slew.
You betta watch what u say or do
cause it just might happen to u
when u work hard but chosen a few.

Mek dem know this
Jamaica!

We not going down
and dem huff an
dem a puff and
dem a frown.
Cyan tek di getto youth dem fi clown
cause what goes around,
comes all the way around.

Too much man a get slew.
You betta watch what u say or do
cause it just might happen to u
when u work hard but chosen a few.

(I)
Got some news today
(I)
how much getto youths dem slay.
(I)
got some things to say
(I) there must be a britter way.

Verse 1

Tell dem fi stop from bus up di glac and put down the mac
some a gwan like dem cyan do without it.
To how the time a go, nuh thank god for the life for the life weh we have
cause we can't live without it.

Chorus
We not going down,and dem huff an dem a puff and dem a frown.
Can't tek di getto youth dem fi clown;
cause what goes around, comes all the way around.

Too much man a get slue.
You betta watch what u say or do.
Cause it just might happen to u.
When u work hard but chosen a few.
(again)

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Writer(s): CLIF MAGNESS, DAVID HODGES, TAMAR MARDIROSSIAN, WRITER UNKNOWN