Memba when you do all you homework at school so dat as yuh reach home you ramp so til you hear smadddy shout out "yuh madda a ccooooommme!" and yuh dash inna yuh house and change yuh school uniform as yuh would surely get a beaten fi inna yuh uniform at 6pm.
Memba when yuh go school 7 days a week fi keep yuh outa trouble. Mon - Friday regular school and private lesson, saturday class, and sunday school at church which is a half day affair
Memba if yuh kin poopah lick and bu'st out you pants, yuh get a beaten Memba 10 cent bulla and jackass corn
Memba when you turn on the tv at 4pm and wait till JBC sign on at 5pm, stand at attention sing the national anthem, and den sit back and watch some cartoon. And dont figet di Big Bwoy story whey you did haffi hide and tell
Memba when yu a come fram school and stop fi pick cherry off Mass John cherry tree and dawg run yu dung
Memba when yu madda sen yu fi tek the clothes fram affa di line but yu wait til night den yu fraid fi go by yuself
Memba when yu fraid fi go a shop by yuself a night because Miss Matty jus' dead and yu tink yu might si har duppy
Memba when yu and yu fren dem decide seh unu a go run a boat, the biggest cart wheel dumplin yu eva si!
Memba when coming fram school ina di rain and yu tek off yu shoes and walk barefoot all the way home a race board horse inna di gutter water
Memba when dem use fi gi weh free milk powder and bulga rice a school, an' yu play milk powder war all the way home
Memba when dem good rice and peas and chicken Sunday dinna with a nice refreshing glass ah carrot juice
Memba when yu 'ave roast breadfruit and ackee and salt fish breakfast jus' barely a day afta yu Saturday Peas soup wid cho-cho, turnip, carrot an' punkin
Memba when teacha beat yu because yu neva do yu homework
Memba marning time when yu reach a school jus in time fi devotion and yu betta mek sure yu ave yu hym book and yu bible, yu pleat dem betta in order and yu khaki well starch
Memba dem good ole starch uniform ( coudda stan up by demself ) and yu nice shine brown or black shoes
Memba when yu madda use fi seh "Go pick a switch mek a beat yu"
Memba Christmas time when everybody a mek a suit fi gran market night, mama stay up a bake cake, draw sorrell, cook curry goat, don't figet the case a D&G soda and red stripe beer weh unda the bed
Memba when a ginnep seed fly dung yu throat and smaddy 'ave fi lick yu back fi mek it fly back up
Memba when yu swallow chewing gum & dem seh yu ago ded cause it ago tie up yu tripe Memba a come fram school and stap fi get the last piece a Miss Brown toeto and a sky juice
Memba dem seh nuh buy nuh sky juice fram Mr. Tom because 'im ave sore foot
Memba when dem seh nuh buy bun & cheeze from juicie cause him use di knife cut & clean him toenail
Memba saving part a lunch money fi buy ice cream fram creamy weh come pan Sunday
Memba a fling stone fi lick dung ginnep and the stone bus yu bredda head
Memba the peanut man ... the jackfruit lady ... the orange man ... the sarda-pan man
Memba a play marble wid yu bredren dem
Memba a go a bush wid yu fadda
Memba a go undaneat the cellar fi the fowl egg (yes I do)
Memba a jump rope wid yu fren dem ... One two Beeny ... lick im mek im feel eh, mek im know yu mean eh, yu mean eh, yu mean eh
Memba playing "Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack, All Dressed In Black Black Black"
Memba a kick foot ball wid yu fren dem roun' a ball grong
Memba when Cristmus come and we watch JohnCunu jump up and down and we get fraid?
Memba yu madda sen yu go a shop and yu sing the list all the way deh ... "one pint milk, one bread, 1 lb a flour. But when yu reach deh, yu tell the shop keeper yu want "1 pint of bread, 1 lb of milk & a flour
Memba when yu last yu madda money and yu fraid fi go back home because she might beat yu
Memba settin up the roosta dem fi fight
Memba all dem good duppy story, and nancy story wi 'ear growing up
Memba how yu use to fraid fi walk a night cause yu tink sey black-heart-man woulda tek yu weh
Memba when bokkle cut yu foot bottam dung a gully
Memba when yu use to stone Missa Smith mango tree dem, and we use to tink seh him have gun
Memba when yu left all day and go a rivva an go cook and when yu come come yu get a beaten
Memba when yu unifarm get dirty Monday marning, and Yu madda beat yu ina di evening
If you memba all the above THEN YOU OLD NO RATHID!