Memba wen yuh do all yuh homework at school so dat as yuh h reach home yuh ramp so til yuh hear smadddy shout out “yuh madda a ccooooommme!” and yuh dash inna yuh house and change yuh school uniform as yuh would surely get a beaten fi inna yuh uniform at 6pm.
Memba wen yuh go school 7 days a week fi keep yuh outa trouble. Mon – Friday regular school and private lesson, saturday class, and sunday school at church which is a half day affair
Memba if yuh kin poopah lick and bu’st out yuh pants, yuh get a beaten
Memba 10 cent bulla and jackass corn
Memba wen yuh turn on the tv at 4pm and wait till JBC sign on at 5pm, stand at attention sing the national anthem, and den sit back and watch some cartoon. And dont figet di Big Bwoy story whey yuh did haffi hide and tell
Memba wen yuh a come fram school and stop fi pick cherry off Mass John cherry tree and dawg run yuh dung
Memba wen yuh madda sen yuh fi tek the clothes fram affa di line but yuh wait til night den yuh fraid fi go by yuh self
Memba wen yuh fraid fi go a shop by yuh self a night because Miss Matty jus’ dead and yuh tink yuh might si har duppy
Memba wen yuh and yuh fren dem decide seh unu a go run a boat, the biggest cart wheel dumplin yuh eva si!
Memba wen coming fram school ina di rain and yuh tek off yuh shoes and walk barefoot all the way home a race board horse inna di gutter water
Memba wen dem use fi gi weh free milk powder and bulga rice a school, an’ yuh play milk powder war all the way home
Memba wen dem good rice and peas and chicken Sunday dinna with a nice refreshing glass ah carrot juice
Memba wen yuh ‘ave roast breadfruit and ackee and salt fish breakfast jus’ barely a day afta yuh Saturday Peas soup wid cho-cho, turnip, carrot an’ punkin
Memba wen teacha beat yuh because yuh neva do yuh homework
Memba marning time wen yuh reach a school jus in time fi devotion and yuh betta mek sure yuh ave yuh hym book and yuh bible, yuh pleat dem betta in order and yuh khaki well starch
Memba dem good ole starch uniform ( coudda stan up by demself ) and yuh nice shine brown or black shoes
Memba wen yuh madda use fi seh “Go pick a switch mek a beat yuh ”
Memba Christmas time wen everybody a mek a suit fi gran market night, mama stay up a bake cake, draw sorrell, cook curry goat, don’t figet the case a D&G soda and red stripe beer weh unda the bed
Memba wen a ginnep seed fly dung yuh throat and smaddy ‘ave fi lick yuh back fi mek it fly back up
Memba wen yuh swallow chewing gum & dem seh yuh ago ded cause it ago tie up yuh tripe Memba a come fram school and stap fi get the last piece a Miss Brown toeto and a sky juice
Memba dem seh nuh buy nuh sky juice fram Mr. Tom because ‘im ave sore foot
Memba wen dem seh nuh buy bun & cheeze from juicie cause him use di knife cut & clean him toenail
Memba saving part a lunch money fi buy ice cream fram creamy weh come pan Sunday
Memba a fling stone fi lick dung ginnep and the stone bus yuh bredda head
Memba the peanut man … the jackfruit lady … the orange man … the sarda-pan man
Memba a play marble wid yuh bredren dem
Memba a go a bush wid yuh fadda
Memba a go undaneat the cellar fi the fowl egg (yes I do)
Memba a jump rope wid yuh fren dem … One two Beeny … lick im mek im feel eh, mek im know yuh mean eh, yuh mean eh, yuh mean eh
Memba playing “Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack, All Dressed In Black Black Black”
Memba a kick foot ball wid yuh fren dem roun’ a ball grong
Memba wen Cristmus come and we watch JohnCunu jump up and down and we get fraid?
Memba yuh madda sen yuh go a shop and yuh sing the list all the way deh … “one pint milk, one bread, 1 lb a flour. But wen yuh reach deh, yuh tell the shop keeper yuh want “1 pint of bread, 1 lb of milk & a flour
Memba wen yuh last yuh madda money and yuh fraid fi go back home because she might beat yuh
Memba settin up the roosta dem fi fight
Memba all dem good duppy story, and nancy story wi ‘ear growing up
Memba how yuh use to fraid fi walk a night cause yuh tink sey black-heart-man woulda tek yuh weh
Memba wen bokkle cut yuh foot bottam dung a gully
Memba wen yuh use to stone Missa Smith mango tree dem, and we use to tink seh him have gun
Memba wen yuh left all day and go a rivva an go cook and wen yuh come come yuh get a beaten
Memba wen yuh unifarm get dirty Monday marning, and Yuh madda beat yuh ina di evening
If yuh memba all the above BWOY THEN YUH OLD