[ti:Poor Man Style] [ar:Barrington Levy] [al:Reggae Anthology: Sweet Reggae Music (1979-84)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Poor Man Style - Barrington Levy [00:06.14]I open my business place [00:12.01]To make living for my wife and my child [00:18.66]For evertyime I open the shop [00:22.64]It's always break down [00:25.57]My granny eat it out my momma eat it out due to the sufferation [00:32.14]I've got to make life some other way [00:39.04]My granny is crying my brother is crying [00:44.89]Thats a poor man style [00:48.23]Thats a poor man life [00:51.43]Thats the poor man style [00:55.51]Poor man style [00:58.54]Hear me brother sit down in my home I roast breadfruit [01:02.34]I hear news flash saying they killed two youths [01:05.98]Thats the poor man style [01:09.10]Thats the poor man style [01:13.18]Couldn't get no sugar but jah jah give me power [01:16.92]Thats the poor man style [01:20.21]Couldn't get no flour but jah jah give me power [01:23.50]But jah poor man style [01:26.70]Couldn't get no oil me have to walk couple mile [01:30.39]Thats the poor man style [01:33.87]Couldn't get no sugar what a great booga wooga [01:37.17]It's the poor man style [01:39.77]Don't know why whoo [01:45.93]Thats the poor man style [01:50.22]But jah gonna open a way for me [01:54.26]No man don't get too jumpy [01:57.11]Every man got their time [02:00.62]No matter what the price is [02:02.79]Matter what the cost [02:04.20]We got to make it [02:08.11]No matter what they say we gotta make it today [02:15.35]No matter what they say we've got make it [02:21.47]Sit down in my home me a roast a breadfruit [02:25.35]I hear the news flash say they kill them killas said them killas [02:29.06]Said them kill two youths [02:32.07]Oh jah take a little peek thru my fence see them lie down [02:40.80]It's it's the poor man style [02:45.28]Oh no oh no [02:49.03]Couldn't get no sugar what a great booga wooga [02:52.44]In the poor man style [02:55.68]Couldn't get no flour but jah jah give me power [02:59.25]In the poor man style [03:02.56]Couldn't get no oil me have to walk couple mile [03:06.01]In the poor man style [03:09.45]Girl wants these shoes in the poor man style [03:13.85]Jah knows I've got some of faith