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Chatterbox

We all meet Friends like these and sometimes we keep them!!
Written with a bit of Jamaican Patois thrown in.

           
                                 Chatterbox
Some people when them when they start chat
Just cant stop at all
Not a word in edgeways
You are a fly on the wall
Just like a runaway train 
You wish their mouth would stall
All the world revolve round them
And the echoes from their eardrums 
Don't resonate, to their braincells at all
Impervious to the voice of reason
Tougher than a granite wall

Do they ever stop to think for a moment
That for every problem they got
There are many a solutions
But they never give you a chance
To answer them back.

Last time you were telling me
How you fall out with your friend
Instead of complaining to me
Why not talk to him
Continue with your chatter
Then tell me 'bout his mother
Sister, and a brother called Glen
But you wearing me down 
With all your problems

I have my Water Rates
Gas and electricity to pay
Already got the final letter
And tomorrow is cut off day!

Not too bothered 'bout the cooking
Cornmeal mi know to turn
But if mi have no drinking water 
Mi have no where to turn.
Cleanliness is next to godliness
ChikV on the rise
And keep spreading
Without water to keep clean
Pickney them will get sick 
And Catch germ

Mi know Mass Bertie
Is a good and honest man.
He is not a borrower 
But he will lend
So if its money you want from me
Don't look in my direction
Go and borrow from him.

My parents all use to tell me
Life is not an easy ride
As fast as you fall down
So you must try to rise
Same thing the elders told me
Same thing has just arrived
Same thing I experience
Same way you must learn
Once you suffer from laziness
Dollars you  cease to earn
If you continue with your foolishness
And don't move up a gear
Same thing whey happen last year 
Same thing will happen this year

Working hard is no science
Its brings its reward
Food on the table
And forges self-reliance
So if you have nothing further to say
Please get out of my way 
I have a pressing day
While I bid you farewell
And wish you good day.

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