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Me No Like Rikers Island (Album Version) - Cocoa Tea/Nardo Ranks

Now dis one is a special dedication

To all deh man dem inna riker's island

Cocoa tea and nardo rankin mon

Now cocoa tea come sing out

The first time the youth come a new york

Them tell the youth you must'nt skylark

Learn a trade or go to school

And don't you turn yourself in a fool

Well now him gone a riker's island

He never wan go a riker's island

Co co come now

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island

Nuff mon been to riker's island know for deh first time

Look pon dem snickers an a seh dat a mine

And a bwoy round and back and him a watch you behind

But if a bwoy try a thing you know him a gone get blind

An deh mon deh mean rasta know dem no kind

Me talkin to deh youth know a pon deh front line

But workin nine to five an everyting will be fine

That's right

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island yuh hear

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island co co come now

Now him gone a riker's island

He never want go a riker's island

And now him gone a riker's island

The first place you go a me seh a deh precinct

And little after dat you gone a central booking

An a deh so dem do all o deh fingerprinting

Interrogatin an deh picture taking

As you go through deh gate you look up in deh ceiling

An a right deh so you get all of deh bad feeling

And you start to ball and you start deh cryin

And a lickle after dat you know a pure suffering

That's right

Now him gone a riker's island

He never want go a riker's island

Now him gone a riker's island

Mmmm oy

Come now

Dem used to chuck it from brooklyn to bronx

And a gwarn like a big top ranks

But nuff a him government response

Cause him gone a riker's island

He never want go a riker's island

Co co come now

Queen's mon dem inna riker's island

An deh brooklyn mon dem inna riker's island

An deh bronx mon dem inna riker's island

An deh manhattan mon dem inna riker's island

Now want you listen me good know and an understand

Ca tell dem mr nardo na fight gainst no one

But is a mix multitude dey in a riker's island doa

Beca deh youth dem in a cell block one

And inna c21 know you must understand

And dey h d m mon dem now come sing along

You have deh puertorican an deh jamaican

And deh barbajan and deh columbian

But we really never fi'get all deh american

That's right

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island yuh hear

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island co co come now

The first time deh youth come a new york

Dem used to tell him you don't skylark

Learn a trade or go to school

And don't you make no one take you for fool

But now him gone a riker's island

Yes him gone a riker's island

Dey used to chuck it from brooklyn to bronx

And a gwarn like dem most top ranks

But nuff a him government response

Yes him gone a riker's island

Come now

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island yuh hear

Me me me no no like riker's island come now

Me me me no no like riker's island

Me seh the first place you go a me seh a deh precinct

An little after dat you gonna central booking

An a deh so dem do all deh fingerprinting

Deh interogating and deh picture taking

As you go through the gate you look up at in deh ceiling

And a right away you get all of deh bad feeling

And a so you really know say your life is flashing

A so me know seh your sentence begin

All a de youth dem now keep listening