Wan ting ah miz fram Bileeze iz plaaying mi boledo ahn lattry gaamz
Ah uzz tu saav up mi numbas dem ah haad pan cantrack fi tri ahn win
Luky ya man! Ah mi verri luky fi ketch dey numbas studi ting aal di tym
Daawling, ah staay cansult mi kig tut dreem buk wey mi maami leff me
Di duppy skeliton man mi gaat di numbas big pan eech paat ah ye baadi
Wen sundaz cong ah speed up wey ah gat fi do fi lissen tu di raadio
Den dey speshial tym ah caal aal dem pickney fi waatch pat pan stoov
Dat dah mi di unly bad haabit ah duzz aalow miself, yer mi now
Ah neva tek tu gaambilin cayardz nor smookin nor bi bling blings
Pan sum wikend tym mi frenz dey invit mi fi mek wi go kik up wi fut
Ah seh, "no gyalz, memba ah gat dey lee pickney dah hu di waatch"
"Ah gat fi shoo dem gud exaampl, direcky pple caal mi "maada yung ting"
Yu noo seh how dey dey ole laadiz lik fi ack lik dey dah divaaz
Ahn dey disgraac up umanhood wid dey slek bihaaviah ina publik
Ah wuda caant live dat down ina wah leel plaac lik Bileez no waay
Dey lang lip fa'asy pple wudda ker mi gud naam ova sout sied kinnel
Wel, foks, ah wah kecth uno laatah, hib ah lang shuw ahn tek it kool.
Wan luv ahn praiz Jah! Yu poetess sistah, Irene
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Note:
This narrrative is written in the writer's native
dialect "Kriol" which is spoken amoung the locals.
It features the favorite "boledo" & "lottery"
games played by the Belizean population.
