作词 : Johnson
If I woz a tap-natch poet 
Like Chris Okigbo 
Derek Walcot 
Ar T.S.Eliot 
Ah woodah write a poem 
Soh dam deep 
Dat it bittah-sweet 
Like a precious 
Memory 
Whe mek yu weep 
Whe mek yu feel incomplete 
Like wen yu lovah leave 
An dow defeat yu kanseed 
Still yu beg an yu plead 
Till yu win a repreve 
An yu ready fi rack steady 
But di muzik done aready 
Still 
Inna di meantime 
Wid mi riddim 
Wid mi rime 
Wid mi ruff base line 
Wid mi own sense a time 
Goon poet haffi step in line 
Caw Bootahlazy mite a gat couple touzan 
But Mandela fi im 
Touzans a touzans a touzans a touzans 
If I woz a tap-natch poet 
Like Kamau Brathwaite 
Martin Carter 
Jayne Cortez ar Amiri Baraka 
Ah woodah write a poem 
Soh rude 
An rootsy 
An subversive 
Dat it mek di goon poet 
Tun white wid envy 
Like a candhumble/ voodoo/ kumina chant 
A ole time calypso ar a slave song 
Dat get ban 
But fram granny 
Rite 
Dung 
To 
Gran 
Pickney 
Each an evry wan 
Can recite dat-dey wan 
Still 
Inna di meantime 
Wid mi riddim 
Wid mi rime 
Wid mi ruff base line 
Wid mi own sense a time 
Goon poet haffi step in line 
Caw Bootahlazy mite a gat couple touzan 
But Mandela fi im 
Touzans a touzans a touzans a touzans 
If I woz a tap-natch poet 
Like Tchikaya U'tamsi 
Nicholas Guillen 
Ar Lorna Goodison 
An woodah write a poem 
Soh beautiful dat it simple 
Like a plain girl 
Wid good brains 
An nice ways 
Wid a sexy dispozishan 
An plenty compahshan 
Wid a sweet smile 
An a suttle style 
Still 
Mi naw goh bow an scrape 
An gwan like a ape 
Peddlin noh puerile parchment af etnicity 
Wid ongle a vaig fleetin hint af hawtenticity 
Like a black Lance Percival in reverse 
Ar even worse 
A babblin bafoon whe looze im tongue 
No sah 
Nat atall 
Mi gat mi riddim 
Mi gat mi rime 
Mi gat mi ruff base line 
Mi gat mi own sense a time 
Goon poet bettah step in line 
Caw Bootahlazy mite a gat couple touzan 
But Mandela fi im 
Touzans a touzans a touzans a touzans