Me No Like Rikers Island-Cocoa Tea

[ti:Me No Like Rikers Island] [ar:Cocoa Tea] [al:Rikers Island] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Me No Like Rikers Island - Cocoa Tea [00:01.03]Written by：G. Henderso [00:02.07]Now this one [00:03.19]Is a special dedication [00:04.99]To all the man livin' in Rickers Island [00:07.33]Cocoa tea and nardo rankin man [00:09.70]Now cocoa tea [00:10.78]Come sing out out out [00:12.15] [00:13.30]The first time the youth come on New York [00:15.48] [00:16.15]Them tell youth [00:17.13]You must not skylark [00:18.31] [00:19.01]Learn a trade or go to school [00:21.11] [00:21.70]And don't you turn yourself in a fool [00:23.93] [00:24.54]Well now him gone a Rickers Island [00:26.75] [00:27.38]He never wan go a Rickers Island [00:29.34]Co come now [00:30.00]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [00:32.70]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [00:35.55]Me me me no no like Rickers Island no fun [00:38.50]Been to Rickers Island know for the first time on a [00:41.50]Look pon them snickers no one see that a mine and a [00:44.07]Boy round and back and him a watch you behind [00:46.48]But if a boy try a thing you know him a go [00:48.75]Get blind and the [00:50.01]While the men rasta know them no kind [00:52.51]Me talkin' to the youth and now I'm up from the front [00:54.71]Line [00:55.30]But look in nine to five an everyting will be fine [00:57.80]That's right [00:58.20]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [01:01.01]Me me me no no like Rickers Island you hear [01:03.83]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [01:06.67]Me me me no no like Rickers Island co come now [01:09.89]Now him gone a Rickers island [01:12.03] [01:12.61]He never want go a Rickers Island [01:14.88] [01:15.40]And now him gone a Rickers Island [01:17.56]But the first place you go a me see at the precinct [01:20.66]A little after that you gonna central booking [01:23.57]An a theso them do all the fingerprinting [01:26.17]Interrogatin an the picture taking [01:28.88]As you [01:29.54]Go through the gate you look up in the ceiling [01:31.98]An a right the so now you get all the bad feeling [01:34.02] [01:34.58]Now you [01:35.22]Start to ball and you start the cryin' [01:37.66]And a little after that you know a pure suffering [01:40.03]That's right no [01:40.93]Know him gone a Rickers Island [01:43.68]He never want go a Rickers Island [01:45.87] [01:46.64]Know him gone a Rickers Island [01:48.92]Mmmm [01:49.91] [01:50.47]Oy [01:51.40]Co come now [01:52.04]I'm used to chuck it from Brooklyn to Bronx [01:54.40] [01:54.98]And a gwarn like a big top ranks [01:57.83]But nuff a him government response [02:00.20] [02:00.78]'Cause him gone a Rickers Island [02:02.88] [02:03.47]He never want go a Rickers Island [02:05.59]Co come now [02:06.31]Queen's man them they a Rickers Island [02:08.48]An the Brooklyn man them they a Rickers Island [02:11.32]An the [02:12.04]Bronx man them they a Rickers Island [02:14.13]An the [02:14.85]Manhattan man them they a Rickers Island [02:16.90]Now want you [02:17.69]Listen me good now and an understand [02:19.87]Can tell them Mr Nardo na fight gainst no one [02:22.47]But is a mix multitude they in a Rickers Island do [02:26.12]Beca the youth them in a cell block one [02:28.16]And in a c21 know you must understand [02:31.10]And the H D M man and now come sing along [02:33.85]You have the Puertorican an the Jamaican [02:36.77]And the Barbajan and the Columbian [02:39.54]But we really never fi'get no the American [02:42.33]That's right [02:42.74]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [02:45.59]Me me me no no like Rickers Island you hear [02:48.55]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [02:51.21]Me me me no no like Rickers Island co co come now [02:54.25]The first time the youth come on New York [02:56.52] [02:57.16]Them used to tell him you don't skylark [02:59.33] [02:59.99]Learn a trade or go to school [03:02.20] [03:02.73]And don't you make no one take you for fool [03:05.08] [03:05.61]But now him gone a Rickers island [03:07.93] [03:08.43]Yes him gone a Rickers island [03:10.64] [03:11.27]They used to chuck it from Brooklyn to Bronx [03:13.45] [03:14.16]And a gwarn like them most top ranks [03:16.93]But nuff a him government response oh [03:19.81]Yes him gone a Rickers island [03:22.42]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [03:25.21]Me me me no no like Rickers Island you hear [03:28.01]Me me me no no like Rickers Island come now [03:30.85]Me me me no no like Rickers Island [03:33.22]But the first place you go a me see at the precinct [03:36.34]An little after that you gonna central booking [03:39.18]An a theso them do all the finger printing [03:41.66]The interogating and the picture taking [03:44.57]As you [03:45.23]Go through the gate you look up in the ceilling [03:47.60]And a right away you get all of the bad feeling [03:50.46]And a so you really know say your life is flashing an [03:53.67]A so me know see your sentence begin so [03:56.53]All a the youth them now keep listening