Can't Tek Your Man - Bounty Killer

Some gyal no understand themselves

A live like some bottle pon shelf

Gyal, go look a man fi yourself!

Anyway!

Girl!

Tell dem!

Dem just can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

From you small, a go school, you and the man deh

Can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

A gyal a chat, cork your ears, no hear wha' dem a say

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You deh with him too long

Mi say!

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You better hold on strong

Because…

A gyal no know your man when him inna one stripe

When white squall a lick, and just hungry a bite

Can’t pay fi water rate, much less pay fi light

When the worm dem inna unuh belly just a toss and fight

Unuh make a board house pon a government site

Woman, there is hope, so long so got life

Pray to Father God and make him show you the light

Well now your man buss 'way, a fly as him like

Have big house pon hill and him deposit right

Have big Benz, big truck, and big bike

Well, now gyal a flock him like rep PC rice

The whole of dem flop 'cause a you a the wife

With the ring pon your finger, you hold on —

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

From you likkle and a go school, you and the man deh

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

A gyal a chat, cork your ears, no hear wha' dem a say

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You deh with him too long

Mi say!

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You have your man too long

Yeah

You have your man from when, from 19-'how long'

A face sufferation and tribulation

When money run short, you couldn’t buy pound of yam

A build form inna the earth, from inna the foundation

To make two ends meet, just to make one

A gyal nuh have no lots and part inna him plan

And all she come a deal with a transaction

She might lose the foot, or she might lose the hand

Might as well the life if she don’t lef' the man

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

From you small, a go school, you and the man deh

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

A gyal a chat, cork your ears, no hear wha' dem a say

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You deh with him too long

Mi say!

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You deh with him how long

It’s like…

Some gyal nowadays no understand themselves

Some gyal, dem a live like some bottle pon shelf

But you well ambitious, and you well decent

Hand inna the air 'cause you’re intelligent

A you spend the money, but a gyal a get cent

A your own house you have, so you no haffi pay rent

A gyal a live a bush and a gyal a pitch tent

A gyal down trot, no want no upliftment

All a gyal love is careless argument

Sit down pon sidewalk a hold conference

'Bout who get the money, from who no get a cent

'Bout who fa face straight, from who fa face dent

And who a virgin, and who a get the length

But, hand inna the air 'cause you’re well excellent

Gyal, shout it out, and you’re well confident

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

From you small, a go school, you and the man deh

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

A gyal a chat, cork your ears, no hear wha' dem a say

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You deh with him too long

Mi say!

Gyal, you better hold on pon your man, no make a gyal take him 'way

You better hold on strong

Because…

A gyal no know your man when him inna one stripe

When white squall a lick, and pure hungry a bite

Can’t pay fi water rate, much less pay fi light

When the worm dem inna unuh belly just a toss and fight

Unuh make a board house pon a government site

Woman, there is hope, so long so got life

Pray to Father God and now him show you the light

Your man buss 'way and a fly as him like

Have big house pon hill and him deposit right

With big Benz, big truck, and big bike

Well, now gyal a flock him like rep PC rice

The whole of dem flop 'cause a you a the wife

With the ring pon your finger, you hold on —

Dem can’t take your man, tell dem fi gweh

From you small, a go school, you and the man deh

Dem can’t…