♪ I'm a man swallow, now I'm gonna build up me soul ♪
♪ The way the world all go swallow ♪
♪ Pick him up a beat, spit him out from the shallow ♪
♪ Fee teach all the children to choose a low and a row ♪
♪ Sad and I'm gonna live in all the pain and the sorrow ♪
♪ Me sing, John, bum-dum, sad and I'm gonna grow ♪
♪ Don't no know the meaning of the old one or tomorrow ♪
♪ John, bum-dum, sad and I'm gonna grow ♪
♪ But the land of Moses ain't the most of sorrow ♪
♪ Me sing, just the beginning of them sorrow ♪
♪ Me sing, John, bum-dum, sad and I'm gonna grow ♪
♪ But the land of Moses ain't the most of sorrow ♪