F# E F#m
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E F#
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E
Police them come an' now they blow down me door
F#m E
One him come crawl through through my window
F# E
So then they put me in the back the car at the station
F# E
From that point on me reach my destination
F# E
When the destination reached it was the east detention
F#m E
Where them whipped down me pants looked up me bottom so
F# E F#m
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E F#
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E
Bigger they are they think they have more power
F#m E
They're on the phone me say that on hour
F# E
Me for want to use it once an' now me call me lover
F# E
Lover who I'll be callin is the one Tammy
F# E
An' me love her in me heart down to my belly
F#m E
Yes me daddy me Snow me I feel cool an' deadly
F# E
As the one MC Shan an' the one daddy Snow
F# E
Together we-a love 'em as a Tor-Na-Do
F# E F#m
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E F#
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
E
A licky boom, boom down
F#m
Listen for me, you better listen for me now
F#m
Listen for me, you better listen for me now
E
When me rockin' the microphone me rock it steady
F#m E
Yes sir, daddy me Snow me are the article don
F# E
But in the in an' the out of a dance them they say where you come from
F#m E
People them say you come from Jamaica
F# E
But me born an' raised in the ghetto that's the one I want you to know
F# E
Pure black people mon that's all I mon know
F# E
Yeah, me shoes are tear up an' me toes used to show
F#m E
Where me born in on the one Toronto so
F# E F#m
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E F#
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
E
A licky boom, boom down
F#m E
Come with a nice young lady
F# E
Intelligent yes she's gentle an' irie
F#m E
Everywhere me go me never left her at all
F#m E
Yes its daddy Snow me are the roam dance mon
F#m E
Roam between a dancin' in a in a nation-a
F#m E
You never know say daddy me Snow me are the Boom Shakata
F# E
Me never lay-a down flat in that one cardboard box
F#m E
Yes, say me Daddy me Snow me I'll go reachin' at the top so
F# E F#m
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E F#
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
E
A licky boom, boom down
F#m E
Why would he?
F#m E F#m E
Why would he?
F# F#m
Me sittin' 'round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl
E
Police knock my door lick up my pal
F#
Rough me up an' I can't do a thing
E F#m
Pick up my line when my telephone ring
F# E
Take me to the station black up my hands
F# E
Trail me down 'cuz I'm hangin' with the Snowman
F#
What I'm gonna do I'm backed an' I'm trapped
E
Slap me in the face an' took all o' my gap
F# E
They have no clues an' they wanna get warmer
F#m E
But Shan won't turn informer
F# E F#m
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
E
A licky boom, boom down
F# E F#
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
E F#m E F# E F# E F#m E F# E F# E F#
A licky boom, boom down