Peeni Walli Lyrics

Peeni Walli lyrics

Riding on my bicycle 

 got knocked down by a motorcycle 

 in front of a crowd of people 

 luckily, I was Jah Jah disciple 

  

 /: I lay on the ground I was so injured 

 So unconscious, did not know what to do :/ 

  

 Yeah, man! 

 When the bike really hit me 

 I see stars and peeni walli 

 beddameng! - pain all over me 

 Me tink me get shocked by electricity 

 beddameng! 

  

 /: I lay on the ground I was so injured 

 So unconscious, did not know what to do :/ 

  

 Yeah, man! 

 Me say at the public hospital 

 Crowd gather around like it was a funeral, 'ey! 

 Some say it accidental 

 or the lang youth ha look 'pon a fat gal 

 (2nd time: How's a tall youth ha stare 'pon a fat gal) 

  

 (repeat all) 

  

  

 NOTE: A "peeni-walli" is a type of blue beetle from Jamaica - 

 a kind of firefly. 

 Christopher A. Edmonds [..] used to tease some kids at school about how 

 "when them come a town dem feel say streetlamp mussa peenie-wallie 

 in a bottle" :-) 

 (they thought a streetlamp was a firefly in a bottle, as I-man 

 raggamuffin understand it) 

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 Last two lines: "Some say it accidental, or the lang youth 'a look 'pon 

 a fat gal" Means something like: " He fell off his bike, either by accident,


 or because he was looking after a fat girl (and didn't look where he was 

 going