**So true. Women times may be hard, and even harder
for the world to take us seriously, but NEVER degrade yourself, be disrespected
or un-appreciated in the name of getting somewhere. WORK for it; it will be
yours and you’ll be able to say you did it THE RIGHT WAY! Don’t stop being a
lady and compromise what you believe in, you might as well let them keep their
money, and you keep your honey and die with your dignity!
I will
forever love these lyrics by the mighty ‘Singing Sandra’ of Trinidad &
Tobago!!! J
DIE
WITH MY DIGNITY (1987) LYRICS:
“You
want to help to mind your family, you want to help your man financially
But
nowadays it really very hard to get a job as a girl in Trinidad
You
looking out to find something to do, you meet a boss man who promise to help
you
But
when the man let down the condition, is nothing else but humiliation,
They
want to see your whole anatomy, they want to see what the doctor never see,
They
want to do what your husband never do, still you ain’t know if these scamps
will hire you.
Well
if it’s all this humiliation to get a job these days as a woman.
Brother
they could keep their money, I go keep my honey, and die with my dignity!!
Some
of them done park up already, yet they sit down waiting like mapipi
Using
the power of the kazan position, waiting to abuse and exploit any woman
To
get to work you have to go to bed with he, become a slave, he second wife and deputy
And
as a next woman get on the line, he start to tell you ain’t good, you can’t
wine
They
want to see you in some fancy fancy pose, they want to see how you look without
your clothes
They
want you cock up like a bloody acrobat, the wife at home they can’t ask she to
do that,
So
before I have to lick down somebody and cuss them so that police come for me
I
tell them they could keep their money, I go keep my honey, and die with my
dignity!!
Looking
for work you might bounce up a fellow, who might be looking quite handsome and
macho,
You
tell yourself you want to work with he, so you decide you go try a radchafee
But
when you done its then you get to know, he wife leave he and gone long time ago
With
all the cash he has he is a failure, the man is nothing but a blinking soucoyant,
They
want to feel up your navel and your breast, they want to see if you have lota
on your chest,
The things he want to do you with his hand, like if they searching to find the
promise land.
I
am a woman who don’t make any skylark, before I slap them and they die of a
heart-attack,
Tell
them they could keep their money, I go keep my honey, and die with my dignity!!
It
have a lot of woman just like me, who might not too well off financially,
You
need a job and you really need it bad, a man decide to help you, you must be
glad,
But
if you value yourself as a woman, you will be demanding respect from the
vagabond,
Stand
up to them and let them know the truth, is work you want you are no blinking
prostitute
You
have a mole on your back they want to see, they want to see if you have marks
on your belly,
They
want to know how much man you had before, and if you are strong enough to take
anymore,
I
have my pride and I have my ambition, I want to hold up my head up high as a
woman,
So brother, they could keep their money, I go keep my honey and die with my dignity!!"
