I open my business place
To make living for my wife and my child
But every time I open the shop
It’s always break down
My granny eat it out my momma eat it out due to the sufferation
I’ve got to make life some other way
My granny is crying my brother is crying

That’s a poor man style
That’s a poor man life
That’s the poor man style
Poor man style

hear me brother sit down in my home I roast [bad word] I hear news flash saying they killed two youths
That’s the poor man style
That’s the poor man style

Couldn’t get no sugar but jah jah give me power
That’s the poor man style
Couldn’t get no flour but jah jah give me power
but jah poor man style
Couldn’t get no oil me have to walk couple mile
That’s the poor man style
Couldn’t get no sugar what a great booga wooga
its the poor man style

Don’t know why whoo

That’s the poor man style
But jah gonna open a way for we
No man don’t get too jumpy
Every man got their time
No matter what the price is …
matter what the cost
We got to make it
No matter what they say we gotta make it today
No matter what they say we’ve got make it

Sit down in my home me a roast a [bad word] I hear the news flash say they kill them killas said them killas said them kill two youths
Oh jah, take a little peek [bad word] my fence see them lie down
Its it’s the poor man style
Oh no oh no

Couldn’t get no sugar what a great booga wooga
In the poor man style
Couldn’t get no flour but jah jah give me power
In the poor man style
Couldn’t get no oil me have to walk couple mile
In the poor man style
Girl wants these shoes in the poor man style
Jah knows i´ve got some of faith