Nico Mbarga - Sweet Mother lyrics

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Sweet mother I no go forget you <br />

for the suffer wey you suffer for me. <br />

Sweet mother I no go forget you <br />

for the suffer wey you suffer for me. <br />

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When I dey cry, my mother go carry me--she go say, <br />

my pikin [1] wetin you dey cry ye, ye, <br />

stop stop, stop stop make you no cry again oh." <br />

When I won sleep, my mother go pet me, <br />

she go lie me well well for bed, <br />

she cover me cloth, sing me to sleep, <br />

"sleep sleep my pikin oh." <br />

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When I dey hungry, my mother go run up and down. <br />

she go find me something when I go chop [2] oh. <br />

Sweet mother I no go forget you <br />

for the suffer wey you suffer for me <br />

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When I dey sick, my mother go cry, cry, cry, <br />

she go say instead when I go die make she die. <br />

O, she go beg God, <br />

"God help me, God help, my pikin oh." <br />

If I no sleep, my mother no go sleep, <br />

if I no chop, my mother no go chop, she no dey tire oh. <br />

Sweet mother I no go forget you, <br />

for the suffer wey you suffer for me. <br />

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You fit get another wife, you fit get another husband,<br />

but you fit get another mother? No! <br />

And if I forget you, <br />

therefore I forget my life and the air I breathe. <br />

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And then on to you men, forget, verily, forget your mother,<br />

for if you forget your mother you've lost your life.