Mama Doh Cry

Speech: (Mama, I love yuh mama, I just want to tell you unconditional love to you all the time.)
1.
As a boy, mama you did warn mih still my life went down the drain;
Having fun, terrorising people with mih gun causin endless pain;
Since mih daddy drift away I choose to roam and go astray and join up with a gang;
Ma you stayed at home and pray, so Ill see a brighter day, not in prison sentenced to hang.

CHORUS
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)
I know how much you care, your love for me sincere Im just a tragic story;
I am a victim now, so dont you feel no how, Jah shed his blood for me;
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)
2.
As a boy mama yuh did warn mih; my life now is a mess;
Knock about with Tom Dick and Harry, theres no doubt-them boys is real pest;
Since ah passed mih S.E.A; ah choose to bling and go astray, living a life of crime;
Ma yuh plead with me and pray, that Ill will see the light someday, not in prison serving life time.

[CHORUS]
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)
I know how much you care, your love for me sincere Im just a tragic story;
I am a victim now, so dont you feel no how, Jah shed his blood for me;
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)

3.
As ah boy mama yuh did warn mih, as ah boy yes I have been scold;
Troublesome-fire coulda burn mih, now prophesy unfold;
Is my daddy I used to blame but I brought the family to shame, pure hate mih heart get hard;
Ma yuh toiled and toiled and pray for me to chant a psalm a day not to be in the Remand Yard
[CHORUS]
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)
I know how much you care, your love for me sincere Im just a tragic story;
I am a victim now, so dont you feel no how, Jah shed his blood for me;
Mama dont cry for me (x 2)

4
As a boy I wanted mih own way; as a boy I was too harden;
I would cuss and refuse to obey my elders I didnt listen;
But grad-u-ally I notice mih own family avoided me, they watched me and pass me strait;
But mama you never gave up yuh cried and cried and prayed non-stop--just to save this reprobate.

[CHORUS]
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)
I know how much you care, your love for me sincere Im just a tragic story;
I am a victim now, so dont you feel no how, Jah shed his blood for me;
Mama dont cry for me (x 4)

NB. Yuh means You; Mih means My; Ah means I; Jah means God; Ma means Mama; Cuss means Curse.