Lagbaja - Put Am Well Well lyrics

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Market Chants: Obe ree, obe

Lagbaja:Ijebu omo alare, them not dey joke with ikokore

Fela: And gari, morning afternoon and night

Lagbaja: Kwara, them not dey joke with wara

Fela: And eko

Lagbaja: Ekiti, early morning iyan

Fela: Ah! You dont know? Iyam! Twenty four hours ni

Lagbaja: Early morning iyan, count me out o

Fela: Ah! How can you talk like that?

Lagbaja: Count me out its too early for..

Fela: Try

Lagbaja: Try wetin

Fela: Try

Lagbaja: Make I come dey sleep for work

Fela : No, not be that

Lagbaja: When bread and butter dey

Fela: No, excuse me. You see, colonialism makes you think that bread and butter is beter than gari

Lagbaja: A ha, Me I not be colo. Bread and butter get him own advantage

Fela: Lai lai

Lagbaja: It get

Fela: Lai lai

Lagbaja: I say, it get

Fela: Lai lai

Lagbaja: Oh baba, you not go want hear person

Fela: Okay, tell me

Lagbaja: Bread and butter not go weigh you down

Fela: That one not concern me

Lagbaja: Ahaa

Fela: It not concern me.

Lagbaja: Eh

Fela: You see now. The educated men would eat sausage and bread every morning. They forget that ewa and moinmoin taste better.

Lagbaja : Ah.... to ba je ti moinmoin, emi wa fun yen o. Abi you self like am?

Fela: Me?

Lagbaja: En

Fela: Me, Fela?

Lagbaja: En. You like am?

Fela: Ahaa. You don't know? Just cut am. Sham... sensere. Put am. Pam...pam. Unhun... straight....iyam.

Lagbaja: You go finish am?

Fela: Patapata

Lagbaja: Aah

Fela: (chuckles)

Lagbaja: Baba

Fela: Ha! You dont know? My name is Fela

Chorus: Gimme gimme better food chop

Put am well well As a big man concern