The yam price cheap, cheap

Cheap

How much?

Thirty dollar a pound

Is that good?

Nah

Not at all. Not at all

What should it be?

At the least fifty

Fifty?

Yeah

Yeah?

That we coulda survive

And what is it, what is it?

Chi slungity bickity bungity bickity slungity bickity bung

Chi slungity bickity bungity bickity ung badeng budu bye bye

Yellow yam, natty yellow yam

Chi yellow yam, natty yellow yam, come again

Yellow yam, the irie yellow yam, hear dis

Yellow yam, lovely yellow yam

But a every youthman them a haffi set up them plan

Me make my living as a farmer man

Me plant lyric nuff inna me plantation

But a too much pirate inna de contention

Me makе up me mind fe go plant yellow yam

Agriculturе it a me main ambition

But a anyone who tell you sellin yam easy

Them a dutty liar, yes them filthy

The price come dung when the yam get flushy

One pound sell off fe ongle thirty

Me couldno buy no bread, me couldno feed me pickney

No me couldno take me galfriend to watch a movie

But if the yam scarce, the price fifty

And a that the time me sell it, me say pon me donkey

Me hitch up pon me saddle at a six thirty

Then me left out Trelawny, gone a Kingston City

Then me make a one turn chu me sell a Ochi

And on the way, me haffi pass through Fern Gully

The rain come dung and then it wet up dutty

Me donkey make a step a but the road slippery, me wi

Fall off the back and then the ground so muddy

All of me yam, them just a get dirty

But a stag-a-lag-a-lag me just a ride easy

But a me dey slip and me dey slide a when me ride me donkey, me love me

Yellow yam, natty yellow yam budu bye

Chi yellow yam, the sweet yellow yam

But a anyone who tell you sellin yam easy

Them a bare babat, them never hear me LP

To plant up the yam you haffi pay producer

Twenty five hundred Jamaican dollar

Another fifteen hundred chu me haffi mulch it

And a what kinda mulch, me say that a horseshit

And a after dat dey one you haffi pay fe de stick

And a after dat dey one you haffi fertilise it

You haffi buy dat and you haffi buy dis

But it can’t work out, and it make me feel so sick, now

Yellow, we want yellow yam

Yellow yam

Hey Squeeter, make the riddim come in like Street Sweeper (okay)

Thank you kindly, let me flash a different kind of lyrics here

Listen to this, this is you

You gone to Hi-Lo chu you want some food

Want fe put on a pot and go boil good stew

And then you sight up the yam, you want fe eat one or two

But this a warning about the yellow yam scam

The first thing you do, take it inna you hand

Smell disya yam, ponder the fragrance

And if the yam sweet, that a natty yellow yam

But if it smell sour, or if it bitter

The ting weh you have it is a Babylon yam

Now this a impostor yam plant by Babylon man

Now chu the Babylonian dem a run a yellow yam scam

Him put the yam there just fe steal you woman

Him want fe make your daughter turn lesbian

Him want fe make your son a maama man

Him want fe spread cancer upon we island

Nuh fe put the yam inna you lunch program

Nuh fe eat the yam and go take you exam

Nuh fe take the yam and give it to Gam Gam

Nuh fe fry the yam a with you lovely roast bang

This a

Yellow yam, yellow yam scam, budu bye

Chi yellow yam, yellow yam scam, hey

Yellow yam, the yellow yam scam, hehheh

Yellow yam, the yellow yam scam

The man weh plant impostor yam in the grocery store a one snake tongue devil

Because if a man be having a fork in his tongue, he must be a snake

And, and if a man come to you talking all kinds of gold and silver ways, he may be a snake lying in the grass

Kill him

Now people, people, lemme ask you this here one now, let me ask you this

If, if a man be laying on the ground, and slithering back and forth, is he a snake?

Or, or if a man be hanging from a tree and his skin is green and him tell you all kinds of silver tongue lies, he may be a snake, you may have to kill him

Me tell you seh, it cyaan work out

We want, we want, we want it likkle better

Mm

Yeah

Yeah, but you’re g-, you’re gonna have to, you’re gonna have to make the demands, to make it little better

Doesn’t make any sense, because we already tried that