Snake Skin Shoes
Dat snake he someting else-yu kno
A real smooth operator
An him sneakin ‘n’ slopin al round dat tree
In he al too shiny new suit ‘n’ plus four
In love wid himsel -dat for sure
You know him alright
Dat kid at school
Dat one everyone scaret of
James Dean-puffing on a cigarette
Elvis too-if both dem serial killer
‘Well yu jus taste de apple’ he say
‘Jus a bit-what harm it do girl?
Him upstairs-why yu tink he tell yu not ta touch?’
Him done wan you to know too much
Dat why-not cos it do yu hurt girl’
An there he is jus talkin awa
Smooth as butter milk
Wid him eye dat you drown in
Till I jus melt-I ask yu-is dat a crime?
Well is it? Dat snake he someting else-dat al
Adam? Well dat man sho did sulk
Blame me? Sho-yu bet him did
But now him laugh alri
Rite down from him belly to him toe
No-don spose him ever forgit
Yu kno him
Him not de forgivin kin
But sho did laugh alri-dat day
What day-I hear yu say?
Why de day dat I giv him dem snake skin shoes
A real smooth operator
An him sneakin ‘n’ slopin al round dat tree
In he al too shiny new suit ‘n’ plus four
In love wid himsel -dat for sure
You know him alright
Dat kid at school
Dat one everyone scaret of
James Dean-puffing on a cigarette
Elvis too-if both dem serial killer
‘Well yu jus taste de apple’ he say
‘Jus a bit-what harm it do girl?
Him upstairs-why yu tink he tell yu not ta touch?’
Him done wan you to know too much
Dat why-not cos it do yu hurt girl’
An there he is jus talkin awa
Smooth as butter milk
Wid him eye dat you drown in
Till I jus melt-I ask yu-is dat a crime?
Well is it? Dat snake he someting else-dat al
Adam? Well dat man sho did sulk
Blame me? Sho-yu bet him did
But now him laugh alri
Rite down from him belly to him toe
No-don spose him ever forgit
Yu kno him
Him not de forgivin kin
But sho did laugh alri-dat day
What day-I hear yu say?
Why de day dat I giv him dem snake skin shoes
posted by Sue hardy-Dawson at 10/16/2006 08:15:00 PM
10 Comments:
Funny!! In you best Carribean brogue.
Great! A strange style but a good one!
Bye, kiss!
Funny punch line!
wow, regular jamaican patois. i can hear the voice of the big fat momma from tom and jerry reading this.
Yo, man, hang five dat dis howya doin dang meyo... no... it's no good - I can't do it.
Great stuff - Sue - with a touch of Brer Rabbit perhaps.
Like the ideas seed too Always good to prune punctuation sometimes I do away with it altogether
I expect youre looking forward to the holiday
a chance to pen a few more masterpieces
'I loove this one , so best man, the style so one kind type, bagus leh...'thats Malaysian street English, just to let you know that this is excellent
poetry in slang...different
:-]
The story of temptation is everybody's story. Love the patois, makes great music for the universal tale. Wonderful Sue.
Its funny how accents lend an altogether different flavour to the poem! this was different but i think i like it! Whats new on sludge bog stew? off i go....
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