Oh my oh my
Oh mama don't cry
Gonna keep you ..So I

Reachin out to all the mothers in the world
Sometimes its just the way things are to be (yea)

Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain and sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare a just only you
Give you all my love oh yea
Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain and sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare a just only you
This is my words and my utterin

Mama I would never let you down
I'll never go away, I'll always be around
You know why you do it, such love that you found
I'm always gonna let you wear that crown
Through the roughest of times you maintain your calm
Jah was your only help While shelterin me from the storm
And when its cold you wrap me in a towel so warm
Oh ma oh ma, I'm so glad I was born


Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain and sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare a just only you
Give you all my love oh yea
Oh Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain and sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare just only you
This is my word

I'm gonna make u so proud, such good son you have
You are the one who teaches me all the good form the bad
Even when the system keeps pressurin my dad
You got high hopes, thanks be unto the most high God

Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain and sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare a just only you
Give you all my love oh yea (oh my oh my)
Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain and sufferin
All my visions, aspirations I owe it all onto you
This is my words and my offering

I'm a big man now that's how things go
Things you do to survive only Jah he knows
Fiercely protecting us while watchin us grow
You been up even when its on the down low
Work so hard to see us go to school
Blisters on your fingers so they can't take us for fool
I'm here for a purpose, I'm here to rule
Most high Jah Rastafari will see us through

Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain an sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare a just only you
Give you all my love oh yea
Thank U mama for the nine months u carried me through
All those pain an sufferin
No one knows the pressure you bare just only you
Ohhhh

Now it's my turn to make life, I'm so mature
Now I got my kids and my wife and I'm positivley sure
I'm doing fine and still can be so much more
You've prepared me for the future my love you deserve
Keeps doing your thing while others not knowing
But deep inside your heart mama you know where it was going
Can a mother lose her tender care for her child that she's been showin
Some how your star keeps glowin ow

Ey,ey!

Yeah,you got to get going
No time for sitting down
Some people not knowing life is a cycle
You got to know how to get around
Woo!...hahh

Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fears
And don't you wait too long
Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fear
And don't you wait too long

Ahhy! how you doing? long time I haven't seen you
Hope you behaving yourself now like a good-behaving citizen
Nothing come easy--you got to work hard,I'm telling you
Hope and pray for the best 'cause I believe in you
Not like the stereotype,cleanliness intriguing you
Give thanks and praise for my life,and for us being here
Children can't go to school,the system killing us
There's good in us,and we've always wanna bring it out!
Show the world what we got--the struggle continues,yow
Check the conditions in which we living,yow
Right now I come giving you
That you work to be the winner
All children,going to baby,that's how we continue

Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fears
And don't you wait too long
Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fear
And don't you wait too long

Verse 2 People love fi lift expectation,that's fine with me
Opportunity comes but once,so it's time for me
I don't think of failure because the sun shine for me
Something in the back of my head keep reminding me
Keep on listening,you hear when I call
There's good and bad,so just be good and stand tall
A lot of people out there wish for me to fall
I'm not scared--I pray to He who had created us all
Evils and the demons--woo! I don't stop with them
Hey,they don't like me? hey,what's up with them?
I just can't do without Jah love
Because it's like the oxygen
I'm no in no folly--ah! doh gimme no crap with them

Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fears
And don't you wait too long
Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fear
And don't you wait too long

Ahhy! how you doing? long time I haven't seen you
Hope you behaving yourself now like a good-behaving citizen
Nothing come easy--you got to work hard,I'm telling you
Hope and pray for the best 'cause I believe in you
Not like the stereotype,cleanliness intriguing you
Give thanks and praise for my life,and for us being here
Children can't go to school,the system killing us
There's good in us,and we've always wanna bring it out
Show the world what we got--the struggle continues,yow
Check the conditions in which we living,yow
Right now I come giving you
That you work to be the winner
All children,going to baby,that's how we continue

Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fears
And don't you wait too long
Yes,you got to be strong
And be all the best you can
The world is out there,conquer your fear
And don't you wait too long