Flour, Diesel, Kerosene

Paroles de « Flour, Diesel, Kerosene »

Intro: full band, cold open

Chorus

Flour, diesel, kerosene
Flour, diesel, kerosene

Verse

Cassidy shop, corner a Bay Farm Road
Kerosene gone from one twenty to one forty-five
Me have las' month price write down inna di pocket book
Flour up eleven dollar pon di bag
Radio a talk behind me 'bout warship inna di strait

Chorus

Flour, diesel, kerosene
Flour, diesel, kerosene

Verse

Diesel fi di van, six hundred eighty-two
Tuesday gone me fill it fi five ninety-nine
Eighty-three dollar more, same van, same road
Man pon di radio say seven destroyer park up by di strait
Me never see a boat yet, but me see di receipt

[Toast: spoken, flat on the groove]
Right — mark it down. One bag a flour, eleven up.
Two tin a mackerel, forty dollar even.
Rice, five pound, two ninety a pound, dat is fourteen fifty.
Kerosene, one gallon, one forty-five.
Condense milk, two eighty. Tin a corn beef, four ten.
Baking powder, ninety cent, same price since Easter.
Carry it come to seventy-eight dollar an' fifty-five cent.
Las' month, seventy-one twenty. So dat a seven dollar thirty-five
me pay fi a boat me never see.

Chorus

Flour, diesel, kerosene
Flour, diesel, kerosene

Verse

Likkle transistor pon top a di amp a buzz
Me turn it down slow, two turn a di knob
Di whole a di world get small, get small, get small
Down to four shelf a forty-five an' di dust pon dem

Chorus: thinning to bass and voice

Flour, diesel, kerosene
Flour, diesel, kerosene
Flour, diesel, kerosene

Outro

Seventy-eight fifty-five
Me pick out di one wid di blue label
Me lay it pon di platter