Campaign Truck

Testing, testing! Five year wi nuh see yuh! Yuh truck turn di corner with di speaker turn high T-shirt and a chicken back, and a big fat lie Five year gone since yuh stand pon dis wall Seh yuh love poor people and yuh answer di call Yuh seh water a come, wi still a tote it pon wi head Yuh seh clinic a build, it a goat pen instead Yuh seh road a get pave, now di ambulance stuck Mi cousin born a baby in di back of a truck Same smile, same shirt, same promise, same song A how yuh face so hard fi come back so long? Tek back yuh chicken, tek back yuh rum! Tell wi weh di whole a di money run! Wi can count, wi can read, wi nuh fool nor blind Yuh leave wi inna di pothole, and a so yuh ride behind Turn off di truck! Turn off di truck! Yuh nah get wi vote with yuh ten-pound luck Mi see di new gate pon yuh house up a hill Three car a park, and yuh daughter abroad still Mi see di bridge money inna yuh wife new dress Wi children a cross pon a board and a mess Teacher a buy chalk out of har own small pay Roof at di basic school blow weh yesterday Yuh come with a ribbon and a scissors fi cut Pon a one-room building and it already shut Yuh seh, mi people, mi people, and yuh wave yuh hand Tell mi one a wi name, go on, name one man Tek back yuh chicken, tek back yuh rum! Tell wi weh di whole a di money run! Wi can count, wi can read, wi nuh fool nor blind Yuh leave wi inna di pothole, and a so yuh ride behind Turn off di truck! Turn off di truck! Yuh nah get wi vote with yuh ten-pound luck Standpipe, twenty-nineteen? Street light, twenty-twenty? Sports field fi di youth dem? Job fi di school leaver? Who a pay yuh salary? Who a pay yuh petrol? Who yuh work for, Minister? Now hear mi, and hear good, mi nah raise no hand Wi a fight with a pencil, wi a mek wi stand Granny walk three mile with har stick and har hat Young mother and baby, wi organize dat Wi a write every promise on di old shop door Next man come a beg, him can read what is for Di whole a dis district a go line up by dawn Check yuh numbers on di night, and see yuh power gone Yuh will call fi a meeting, yuh will call fi a talk But di truck run outta diesel, so now yuh can walk Tek back yuh chicken, tek back yuh rum! Tell wi weh di whole a di money run! Wi can count, wi can read, wi nuh fool nor blind Yuh leave wi inna di pothole, and a so yuh ride behind Turn off di truck! Turn off di truck! Yuh nah get wi vote with yuh ten-pound luck Walk, Minister! Mind di pothole! Yuh know where it deh!