Roof Over Mi Head - Sister Nancy

I think of all the housing scheme

And I Sister Nancy gon sound do it well clean

When you sick of if you lame or your damn blast and mean

It’s the housing scheme, you know?

I tell you fi build a little housing scheme

Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme

Who some a in a red some blue and green

Some tepl in a purple yellow chaka no so green

I tell you fi build a little housing scheme hey ah

Tell you fi build a little roof over yo head

Tell you fi build a little roof over yo head

Me landlord come am inna occupy yo ladder

Him likker af yo door a you no want mi rent

I tell myself fi build a little roof over ya head

Tell me I can’t get a brick, you use bag a spode

A likkle after that you wanna house of your own

Mi landlord can’t come kick off yo door

Better put a little roof over yo head

Ca you fi put a little roof over yo head

I tell you whether natty dread or a whether baldhead

Ah I Sister Nancy do some doing instead

Better put a little roof over yo head

You better put a little roof over yo head

I telling you fi set up production man

I tell you so fi set up foundation man

You you dem come on dem city foundation

A you fi build a little housing scheme

Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme

You do what ya what do what ya wah do it well clean

I sound in a red blue yellow and green

Ah I Sister Nancy comfy nice on this scene

Mi lyan you fi build a little roof over yo head.

Steady!

You put a little roof over yo head

I tell that the great is great, great shouldn’t underrate

And a-ya Sister Nancy me no imitate

Ca mi say anything me chant, I meet originate

Better build a little housing scheme

Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme

I tell you if you sick or if you sad or if yo loss a love your head

You sick or if you sad or if yo loss a love your head

A don pon marker make me feel so bad

You fi build a little roof over yo head

Tell yo fi put a little roof over yo head

The landlord a come am inna occupy your lad

Him take what’s you better, you no waan fi no renta

Mi lyan you fi build a little housing scheme

I tell you so fi put a little roof over yo head

I tell yo when you can’t get a brick, you use bag of spode

A likkle after that you wanna house of your own

The landlord can’t come kick off your door

You pick me outta door a bad lad what

Your woman inna also wanna woy woy woy

Natty build a little roof over yo head hey oh

Tell you fi put a little roof over yo head

You do it you are do it you are do it instead

Whether baldhead or mi say whether natty dreada

I telling you fi build a little housing scheme.

You see?

You build a little housing scheme

Who the putting a bretha mi say yellow or green

You step it inna blue who red or white