I get my money

Plan my plan finish

Start to go for marketStart to go for shopping

Before I reach market nko o?

Government show don enter

My plan don spoil o

Government show don enter

My plan don spoil o

Overtake don overtake overtake

Ah! I beg let us get down

Into another underground spiritual game

I beg, after my "pass o, pass o"

You go dey help me end am with "wen"

Because them go hear wen, yeah

Pass o, pass o, pass o, pass o

Wen

When they want to call, eh

When they want to call, eh

When they want to call Nigerian government

Them give am name, "Federal Military Government"

(Federal Military Government!)

For Libya dem give am name, "Liberation Council"

(Liberation Council!)

For Liberia dem give am name, "Redemption Council"

(Redemption Council!)

For Zaire dem give am name, "Revolutionary Council"

(Revolutionary Council!)

Them get different different names

For different different governments

But the correct name for them

Na "soldier go, soldier come"

Soldier go, soldier come

Soldier go, soldier come

Federal Military Government

Libya Liberation Council

Liberia Redemption Council

Zaire Revolutionary Council

Soldier go, soldier come

Soldier go, soldier come

When Obasanjo and Yar′Adua

Chop belly full and go

Them put civilian friends for there

Them shout, "Second republic!"

People wey no know dey happy

People wey know them dey look

Them baptize the civilian government

Them name am federal government

Me I know by their name

Me I call them "soldier put, soldier go"

Soldier go, soldier come

Soldier come, soldier go

Na so our lives for Africa dey roll

Since them say we get independence

The civilian government wey them dey

Na soldier dey protect them

When our lives roll small

He go go knock head for wall

When our lives roll small

He go go knock head for tree

When our lives roll small

He go go knock head for stone

When I see say our lives dey roll

Like one yeye ball

Wey one yeye wind

Dey blow from one yeye corner

I put my mouth for song

"Kalakuta Show"

Yeye rolling

Gaga gugu, gaga gugu

Woko woko, woko woko

Look the man he dey waka

Hungry dey run for him face

I put my mouth for song

"Mr. Follow Follow"

Yeye rolling

Mr. Follow Follow

Mr. Follow Follow, make you open eye

Mr. Follow Follow, make you open sense

I put my mouth for song

"Zombie o, Zombie"

Yeye rolling

Zombie o, zombie

Zombie no go go unless you tell am to go and stop

Attention, quick march, left turn

Right turn, about turn, quick march

Quick march, left turn, right turn

About turn, quick march, left turn

I put my mouth for song

"Shuffering and Shmiling"

Yeye rolling

Suffering and smiling

Every day my people dey inside bus

Forty-nine sitting, ninety-nine standing

Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock

Every day na the same thing

I put my mouth for song

"Unknown Soldier"

Yeye rolling

Unknown soldier

That my mama wey you kill

She is the only mother of Nigeria

Which kind injustice be this?

Wetin concern government inside?

If na unknown soldier

Them turn blue into red

Them turn pink into green

Soldier go, soldier come

Soldier come, soldier go

The reason suffer our suffer

He don dey show him face to us

When black man want to start business, na big wahala

Na big wahala, he go run orisirisi running

When he start the business nko? Another wahala

Another wahala, he go beg orisirisi begging

To settle wahala, na to start wahala again

To start wahala again you go fall orisirisi falling

And things don come change again

Soldier don put everybody for reverse

Na back the country take dey walk

Soldier don put everybody for reverse

Na back the country take dey walk

Soldier don put everybody for reverse

Ah, I beg, we wan change the mood of this music now

We wan inject second bass and the big conga drums

Oya, Pop

Na from back

If them wan to knock your head

Eh-eh, na from back o

If them wan to knock your head

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to run, be running

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to run, be running

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to beg, be begging

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to beg, be begging

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to fall, be falling

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to fall, be falling

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to get wahala

Eh-eh, na from back o

If you wan to get wahala

I say, na from back o

If anybody wan to try to run forward

Soldier boots go kick am back

Eh-eh, na from back o

Ah! Oya, pass o and wen

Pass o, pass o, pass o, pass o

Wen

Ah! Oya, second bass... pop

My friend wan come buy fan

Him dey sweat for him dey sleep for room

Him dey fall level of tree

The fan na seventy-five naira

My friend him dey follow salary

Him dey try to save and save and save

Every time he nearly buy the fan

Government go add ten naira more

Every time he nearly buy the fan

Government go start one activity

Till the fan reach two hundred naira

My friend nearly die, he never die

My friend he no wan die

Die-die no dey for him dictionary

For where? Huh...

Him dey try to save and save again

Him save for one year and six months

Inside cupboard

Under pillow

Under, under cooking pot

Inside socks

Under carpet

Him dey on his way to buy the fan

When alarm come blow

Government announce second tier

Everything come tear to pieces

Everything come expensive

Even water become expensive

Second bass, jare... pop

Fan don become seven hundred naira

Me and my friend start to look ourselves

He remain small make my friend dey cry

Na laugh laugh he catch monkey

Na now he come understand him life

Enjoyment can never come him way

Na now him life dey go reverse

In Africa, him fatherland

One more time

Soldier go, soldier come

Soldier come, soldier go

Na so Africa man life dey be

Suffer don daburu him sense

When you wear police uniform

Na to collect money for road

Abi I lie?

When you wear police uniform

Na to collect money for road

I no dey lie!

Police station don turn to bank

D.P.O. na bank manager

Police station don turn to bank

I.G. na managing director

Na big e wahala for man to waka for road at anytime

So you see, my brothers

Overtake don overtake overtake, eh-yah

Overtake don overtake overtake, eh-yah

Overtake don overtake overtake!

Eh-yah

Eh-yah

Eh-yah

That my mama wey you kill

She is the only mother of Nigeria

Which kind injustice be this?

Wetin concern government inside?

If na unknown soldier

Them turn blue into red

Them turn pink into green

I get my money

Plan my plan finish

Start to go for market

Start to go for shopping

Before I reach market nko o?

Government show don enter

My plan don spoil o

Government show don enter

My plan don spoil o

Overtake don overtake overtake