Take some Picts, Celts and Silur
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conq
Remove the Romans after approxima
Add lots of Norman French to some

My ears are battered and burned an
i have just learned that i have be
listening to the wrong radio stati
My mind has been brutalised now th
I’ve been listening to the wrong r

In Hawaii they Hula
They Tango in Argentina
They Reggae in Jamaica
And they Rumba down in Cuba,
In Trinidad and Tobago

Dis poetry is like a riddim dat dr
De tongue fires a riddim dat shoot
Dis poetry is designed fe rantin
Dance hall style, big mouth chanti
Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep

We Black men of England
Too proud to cry for shame,
Let’s cry a sea
Cry publicly,
Expose our very pain,

They put a leather belt around her
13 feet of tape and bound her
Handcuffs to secure her
And only God knows what else,
She’s illegal, so deport her

I waz walking down Wyefront stree
When me trousers ran away,
I waz feeling incomplete
But still me trousers would not st
When I found where they had gone

I am a veggie table
A table made of veg,
There’s so much fruit upon me
All living on the edge,
Life is hard

I come from a musical place
Where they shoot me for my song
And my brother has been tortured
By my brother in my land.
I come from a beautiful place

I am the type you are supposed to
Black and foreign
Big and dreadlocks
An uneducated grass eater.
I talk in tongues