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‘Deadbeat Dad’

sung by Colvin Fields
composed by Colvin Fields

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“Deadbeat Dad”
Colvin Fields
Provided with the expressed permission of the composer(s)

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LYRICS

Verse

Jah make the family
For his glory and purpose
Father, mother and children
To strengthen communities
In most societies
It is the institution and socialization
For raising healthy children

But since the fall of man
Everything gone helter skelter
Fathers leaving home
And don’t even maintain
Their own children

Chorus

Deadbeat dad, he’s a deadbeat dad, he’s a deadbeat dad
I know that yuh hearing
I know that yuh seeng
Deadbeat dad, he’s a deadbeat dad, he’s a deadbeat dad
Support and love for your children

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Mothers work hard
To provide for their children
It is a plague in society
Fathers plunge kids in poverty
All because he’s a Deadbeat dad

Chorus
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Prison explosion rising over the nation
Young men and women are incarcerated
I am not saying
We doh have Deadbeat mothers
But in the garden
God held Adam responsible
But since the fall of man
Everything gone helter skelter
Fathers worship cars
And don’t provide school books for their children

Chorus
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Mothers scrunting
Is two jobs that they working
This destroys society
Lots of kids are unhealthy
Just because of their Deadbeat dads

Chorus
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Strengthen the family
And you strengthen a nation
Fathers represent Jah Jah
In our homes and communities.
Lift up the brothers
All you mothers and sisters
Respect participation
When they man-up for their children.
But since the fall of man
Everything gone helter skelter
By the sweat of thy brow
You shall eat bread
Maintain your own children

Chorus
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Mothers work hard
Someone floor that they scrubbing
It is clearly plain to me
Lots ah kids in jeopardy
All because of their Deadbeat dad.

Chorus
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Interlude
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Chorus




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