Mango Vert - Mighty Sparrow

A Yankee man and a woman

Was in confusion

This Yankee man and a woman

Was in confusion

The woman give him something to eat

With stringy, stringy hair but it tasting sweet

He say ah rather do without

It go stick up in me teeth, ah done wash me mouth.

She said,

If you eat it right

The hair won’t stick in you teeth

And you bound to say

How it tasting sweet, sweet, sweet

But if you eat it wrong

Don’t walk in the street

Everybody go know

When they see the hair in your teeth!

So the Yankee tell her: «Honey

Tell me why you forcing me

As a rule when ah done brush me teeth

I want nothing more to eat»

So she said: «Take it easy Joe

It seem to me like you don’t know

But this thing is tasting so nice

If you eat it once you must eat it twice.»

Man,

If you eat it right

The hair won’t stick in you teeth

And you bound to say

How it tasting sweet, sweet, sweet

But if you eat it wrong

Don’t walk in the street

Everybody go know

When they see the hair in your teeth!

All this time I living next door

What they talking 'bout I don’t know

But the conversation interest me

So ah listening attentively

She try to rub the thing in he mouth

He started running and jump about

She said you think a making sport

Keep running ah go push it straight down your throat!

Joe,

If you eat it right

The hair won’t stick in you teeth

And you bound to say

How it tasting sweet, sweet, sweet

But if you eat it wrong

Don’t walk in the street

Everybody go know

When they see the hair in your teeth!

Believe I wanted to know

I ain’t care if they call me macaw

After listening attentively

Ah knock on the door very boldly

When ah bust the door and ah enter

Ah see them standing up in the centre

The stupid Yankee catching cold feet

Is a mango vert the man 'fraid to eat.

She said,

If you eat it right

The hair won’t stick in you teeth

And you bound to say

How it tasting sweet, sweet, sweet

But if you eat it wrong

Don’t walk in the street

Everybody go know

When they see the hair in your teeth!