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Artist: Zebra
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Rupert
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Rupert
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Sey yuh waan know rupert
Blouse and skirt (repeat)
Sey yuh waan know rupert
Blouse and skirt (repeat)
1. Mi get up dis mawning
Sey mi nah ga a nuh work
Put on a pants and a likkle pretty shirt
Yow burn steel wi a go mek a gal splurt
Me hear a man start lick out alert
People dead! Me sey who? - rupert
Mi go over deh a mi go see him inna dirt
Di way how me bex, mi sey everybody hurt
Mi a di fus' man sey, nuh mek di jeep splurt
A man draw fi a stone outta di dirt
And sey a obstacle must get hurt
Boop an lick a girl in har skirt
Mi hear she shout out blouse and skirt
Dem deh time blood a decorate di skirt
Rupert
Sey you waa know rupert
Blouse and skirt (repeat)
Sey yuh waa know rupert
Blouse and skirt
2! Sop! bop! shot start fire
A man sey "hombre come we retire"
Shines say "no man, puncture di tire"
Yeah! Yuh go dweet, cause yuh a bag-a-wire
Bop!bop! More shot start pop
"What is a uzi dat, no is a glock"
Yow! Stop yuh noise man, a chat you love chat?
See smoke deh, a tear gas
Tek yuh sheet dem, move di mattras
Lock di door from di bottom to di top
Mi did wake but mi gone sleep back
Mi naw go out deh fi get nuh gun shot -
Rupert
Suh yuh nuh know rupert, alright
Blouse and skirt
3. Mi a go tell yuh how di youth get hurt
Him sey him eat till him belly did a run
So him wake up and go do-do over di burial ground
So a come him a come see a jeep and go run
Bow! An dem shoot him dung
A man started to talk whey did dumb
Three couple man jump a fence whey dem
Nobody know dem nuh waa get gun dung
Rupert
Sey yuh know rupert
Blouse and skirt (repeat)
4. As him a come di door lock an look how long it did open
Yet him inna line, thru dem start back voting
Look how much time poor people heart been broken
Long time dem a dweet dem fi stop di joking
Mine what yuh drinking, mine what yuh smoking
Life worth living don't tek it fi joke ting
Yuh nuh see poker box, stop pay out token
Rupert
Sey yuh nuh know rupert
Blouse and skirt
5. Learn if yuh white an yuh can learn if yuh black
God give yuh breath and him can tek it whey back
Wrong yuh doing, a full time yuh fi stop
Shot a kill people more than how dem have heart-a-tack
Mi sey mek some more way and dem set some more trap
A good thing mi find out sey ants falla fat
Mi nuh drink outta dem glass mi nuh eat outta dem pot
Sey dem bright like a bulb but dem dunce like a bat (so whey
Smaddy get shot - rupert
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