Poor Man Style - Barrington Levy

I open my business place

To make living for my wife and my child

For evertyime I open the shop

It's always break down

My granny eat it out my momma eat it out due to the sufferation

I've got to make life some other way

My granny is crying my brother is crying

Thats a poor man style

Thats a poor man life

Thats the poor man style

Poor man style

Hear me brother sit down in my home I roast breadfruit

I hear news flash saying they killed two youths

Thats the poor man style

Thats the poor man style

Couldn't get no sugar but jah jah give me power

Thats the poor man style

Couldn't get no flour but jah jah give me power

But jah poor man style

Couldn't get no oil me have to walk couple mile

Thats the poor man style

Couldn't get no sugar what a great booga wooga

It's the poor man style

Don't know why whoo

Thats the poor man style

But jah gonna open a way for me

No man don't get too jumpy

Every man got their time

No matter what the price is

Matter what the cost

We got to make it

No matter what they say we gotta make it today

No matter what they say we've got make it

Sit down in my home me a roast a breadfruit

I hear the news flash say they kill them killas said them killas

Said them kill two youths

Oh jah take a little peek thru my fence see them lie down

It's it's the poor man style

Oh no oh no

Couldn't get no sugar what a great booga wooga

In the poor man style

Couldn't get no flour but jah jah give me power

In the poor man style

Couldn't get no oil me have to walk couple mile

In the poor man style

Girl wants these shoes in the poor man style

Jah knows I've got some of faith