Na you dey make me high! (Poem in Pidgin)

Na you dey make me high!

I see you for Chicken and Pie
I wave ‘aye’
Even though you dey shy
You tell me ‘Hi’
When you agree to see me, my heart fly
I raise my hands to the sky
Na you be the one, I nor lie
Your kind of love, money nor fit buy

But I come see you with another guy
I shock; I come shout ‘Kai’
O baby, tell me ‘Why’

All my life I don try
Baby I dey miss you die
Your love dey make me high
So tail I change my hair with dye
Tears dey pour from my eyes
Like say na River Nile
Na you dey make me cry
Give me wings make I fly
Abi na rope make I tie
It’s time to say ‘bye’

Na so I hear one voice say ‘Nigh,
Weep not, make your eyes dry
Wetin be your own, another man can’t pry
Look up, make you nor sigh’



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