Down The Road Lyrics & Chords By The Tiger

Down de road, mama, down de road
Tie up you dress an' run down de road
Your children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In that prison channel they bound to yiel'

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'

When she got the news, her mother went wild
With excitement trying to protect her child
They too harden' gal they doesn't feel
In that prison channel they bound to yiel'

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'

Tomkin that made the attack
And Sims with the cullass behin' his bock
Brown Boy pas connait danger
Matura descend Morunday

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'

Tommy, you should bite your fingernail
You are well six months from the Royal Gaol
You ain't even wait to see Carnival
Now they charge you habitual criminal

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'

I heard a voice calling from afar:
"Crabda, you don't listen to your mother
Don't cry, too late to realize
In that Royal Gaol you done penalize"

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'

Nowhere in a British territory
You cannot commit violence so easily
Ask anybody, the charge for grand larceny
The first penalty's ten years in custody

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'

Aun' Ella look her troubles to heart
And quite suddenly from us she depart
Her actions were true, she was as good as fooled
But her children who run her out of the world

Down de road, mama, down de road
Down de road, mama, down de road
You children too hardened, they doesn't feel
In the prison channel they bound to yiel'