[Intro:]
Inna di bus
In-inna di
Wait deh
How da bus ya so ram?
Ha, my God!
Lawd have mercy!
Boy, I can't tek it no more
Mi seh, mi shout
[Chorus]
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a kick up rumpus
Yes!
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a fight and a fuss
[Verse 1]
Mi hear a one stop, "Driver!, lef' mi bag"
"Wow, Mr. Gee, your arm smell bad"
"Hey, likkle bwoy deh inna di blue tag, tek your foot off of mi corn before mi get mad"
Now the 'ductor deh come down with di money bag
A shout, "Fares, please!" 'til him tour toll tired
Hear a gyal bawl out, "Only 10 cent mi have"
Hear a man up a di front, "You know me just get rob"
Di 'ductor say, "What!"
Di mini bus stop
Di 'ductor hol' di man and gi' di man couple slap
Fling him outta di bus, drop him pon him neck back
Everybody find bus fare quick after that
Weh?
[Chorus]
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a kick up rumpus
Yes!
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a fight and a fuss
[Verse 2]
Mi tek a mini van 'round, nine o-clock
Fi check one a mi girlfriend weh live a Kencot
When mi go inna di bus, mi say, "Lawd mi feel hot!"
Mi cuss bad word di way di mini bus pack
Mi hear a gyal bawl out, "Lawd, a wha' dat?"
You know she see a chink pon a man shirt back
She run go tek it off, di man say, "Put it back!"
"Unuh want everything unuh see black man got!"
Weh?
[Chorus]
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a kick up rumpus
Yes!
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a fight and a fuss
[Verse 3]
When I was a likkle youth in 1971
I never used to know about no transit van
No big Corsica bus, nor no quarter million
A just inna one day dem come inna auction
Di bus dem weh mi know was Penn Overland
Now a dem deh di son enter price mark van
Mi know jolly bus, mi know jolly john
And some likkle short one we used to call patty-pan
Dem deh time bus fare di cheap like a sham
2 cent fi likkle bwoy, 10 cent fi man
Old people never fret when di bus dem ram
Man get up outta seat and give old woman
But di nowadays youth dem get outta hand
About old people dem don't care a damn
Just cut your eye inna any mini van
It look like say old people join walk-a-thon
Fi mi one teeth granny, she 'tand up like she strong
Deh rock two side like a fat man old van
She cyan take di vibes and di sensation
Every brake di van do, she itch up pon a young man
Weh?
[Chorus]
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a kick up rumpus
Yes!
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a fight and a fuss
[Verse 4]
Mi hear a one stop, "Driver!, lef' mi bag"
"Wow Mr. Gee, your arm smell bad"
"Hey likkle bwoy deh inna di blue tag, tek your foot off of mi corn before mi get mad"
Now the 'ductor deh come down with di money bag
A a shout "fares, please!", 'til him tour toll tired
Hear a gyal bawl out, "Only 10 cent mi have"
Hear a man up a di front, "You know me just get rob"
Di 'ductor say, "What!"
Di mini bus stop
Di 'ductor hol' di man and gi' di man couple slap
Fling him outta di bus, drop him pon him neck back
Everybody find bus fare quick after that
Weh?
[Chorus]
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a kick up rumpus
Yes!
Inna di bus, inna di bus
Ah hah
Inna di bus, dem a fight and a fuss
[Outro:]
Mi tek a mini van a come from Manchester
Mi sight General Trees and a passenger a sing, "Mini bus people control Jamaica, one driver a dozen conductor"
So, mi hear sittin lick, "Boof!", pon di bumper
So mi, shoob out mi head look through di window
When mi look a ram goat lay down 'round di corner
Well it's a good thing Professor Nuts nuh lef' him dagger
Mi just!
Bat mi knife, drop di liver
Mi gi' a old man and say, "Gi' your daughter!"
Him say, "Oh!, Weh mi fi give mi daughter fah?"
Mi say cool old man, listen da song ya
"Ram goat liver good fi make mannish water,"
"Gi' her inna plate, nuh gi' her inna saucer....."
