No Way No Better Than Yard - Admiral Bailey

Now this one dedicate to my brethren Josey Wales

Who can’t get stale

Ooh yay

Don’t feel no way

Old time sumting come back again

Go 'round di bend

Mi say go tell yuh fren

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Dreadlocks

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Booda bye booda bye

Because up inna di hills a' weh mi stream so cool

Di janga and di mullet just a' swim inna di pool

T’ree sheep, goat and two black ram

Acres of banana, acres of yam

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Booda bye booda bye booda bye booda bye

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Dreadlocks

Cah mi nuh like an' mi nuh like an' mi nuh like

Mi nuh like an' mi nuh like an' mi nuh like

Yes mi nuh like weh a' gwarn down a' South Africa

This one’s straight to President Botha

I don’t know mek him nuh waan free up Mandela

Di black people can tek it no longer

That’s why I man nuh run left Jamaica

Cah dem deh simting it couldn’t gwarn on yah

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Follow me massive

Me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Come again

Up inna di hills a' weh di stream so cool

Di janga and di mullet just a' swim inna di pool

T’ree sheep, goat and two black ram

Acres of banana, acres of yam

When mi check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Dreadlocks

When mi check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Lord

Well a' two shot fire deh some a' di time

But nuttin like down a' Palestine

Some people say no money no deh yah

But I man nah run lef' Jamaica!

Listen Mr Bailey a' chat up him culture

Inna di dance and mi nah gwarn vulgar

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Booda bye booda bye booda bye

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Dreadlocks

Cah mi nuh like an' mi nuh like an' mi nuh like

Natty dreadlocks mi nuh like an' mi nuh like an' mi nuh like

Mi nuh like an' mi nuh like an' mi nuh like, wha gwarn

Like an' mi nuh like an' mi nuh like

Yes mi nuh like weh a' gwarn down a' South Africa

This one straight to President Botha

I want him free up Mandela!

Because the black people can tek it no longer

That’s why I man nah left Jamaica

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Booda bye booda bye

When me check it out Lord

No way no better than yard

Dreadlocks

And everybody fi listen to me

From Waterhouse down to Cockburn Pen

Go round di bend an' go tell yuh fren

BYE BYE LOVE RIDDIM — 1988