Die with my Dignity

**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!!"