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Shuga Presents New Single 'Dear Mr. Government'
04/03/2022 by Reggaeville
After a two-year hiatus, Shuga is back with a new single. The song, produced by the legendary Donovan Germain (Penthouse Records), was released already in Feburary 2022 and today Reggaeville premieres the official video for Dear Mr. Government!
Shuga: "This song speaks to the reality of many people not just in Jamaica but around the world. We wanted the visuals to tell their story in such a way that it shared the power of the message sincerely and without frills."
LYRICS - DEAR MR. GOVERNMENT:
Hello Mr Government, this is a call from the ghetto
Please don’t forget seh poor people elect yuh
Things down here is not suh great
But we ah try hold di faith with we empty plates
Hungry and stress is a bad combination
Minimum wage cyaaa quench starvation
How we survive is a miracle
Nothing nuh change since we vote fi yuh
Right now the problems of the poor
Is knock knock knocking on the rich man’s door
As long as we pocket dem insecure
Things won’t be peaceful anymore
Dry your crocodile tears Mr Government
Ah we ah face it fi years Mr Government
Cyaa see di promises yuh claim seh yuh implement
Wooiii, but white scwaal deh yah pan repeat
Look how long sufferation ah bawl out
And we ah search but we cyaaa find no way out
We have hope but we’re living in doubt
We ah brace for the famine
But we can’t take the drought
Wooooiii lord lord oh God
Right now the problems of the poor
Is knock knock knocking on the rich man’s door
As long as we pocket dem insecure
Things won’t be peaceful anymore
Stop gwaaaan like yuh blind or yuh nuh know what ah gwaaaan
Hungry belly can never keep calm
When the youth dem need something fi consume
Head ago roll if them choose fi use the wrong tool
Weh the looga dem come from we wanna know
Tell we who breed di criminals
If it’s illegal importation
Who clear dem or is it accidental, wooooii tell me
Right now the problems of the poor
Is knock knock knocking on the rich man’s door
As long as we pocket dem insecure
Things won’t be peaceful anymore
Last week Shuga spoke about the new single at OnStage TV with Winford Williams:
