Payday - Culture

Hey slavedriver!

I’m asking you this question again and again and again

And again

Work police- you false priest!

Trying to indoctrinate Jah people but, (Hear me man)

When will this payday be?

Slavedriver

When will this payday be?

Tell us this hour

When will this payday be?

For these retired slaves (Let me ask you something)

When will this payday be?

Mr. Bigman

When will this payday be?

When will this payday be?

For all these retired slaves (Ya a listen me?)

My forefather worked down here

On this great plantation

True he didn’t get no pay

For all their wasted days

Tell us now!

When will this payday be?

Mr. Slavedriver

When will this payday be?

Tell us this hour

When will this payday be?

For all these retired slaves (Lord)

Will this payday be Monday?

Will this payday be Tuesday?

Tell us now!

Will this payday be Wednesday?

Wednesday Jah need a working day

(Wednesday can be the Working day)

Can this payday be Thursday?

Ben Johnson day

Can it be Friday?

The Regular Payday!

Will it be Saturday?

Saturday Jean shoemaker wife day

Why don’t you give me that (I want it now)

When will this payday be?

Slavedriver

When will this payday be?

Oh, Jah

When will this payday be?

For these retired slaves

Tell us now!

When will this payday be?

You better give me that-

When will this payday be?

Tell us this hour

When will this payday be?

For these retired slaves

You beat my grandmother in the fields

Rape her and call her a prostitute

Fill the land with colored pay bills

From an outlaw’s race

Chuh!

When will this payday be?

I’m asking

When will this payday be?

Backra Master the table is turned

When will this payday be?

For these retired slaves

We nuh joke, we nuh take back nuh talk

When will this payday be?

Slavedriver!

When will this payday be?

You’d better give me that

When will this payday be?

For these retired slaves

Bwoy, true!

Mama come suffer, father come suffer

Bad man suffer, pickney come suffer

Brother come, gone a prison

Uncle come, no have no job

When will this payday be?