When yuh live in the past   Yuh lost   (Blessed, blessed)   Yuh better walk on the right path   Big life, liberty, straight up   Mankind what me sing   (Sung)      Memories don't live like people do   They always 'member you   Whether things are good or bad   It's just the memories that you have   The Beenie Man a sing   (Say hey)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass   (Again)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Body between di board head peep through the glass   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass      Meg, peg, Dis a man yuh dead   Way back inna di west before dem lick Jango head   For a few more dollars 'nother one dead   High plains drifter man ah fled   (I sing)      Too much wickedness   Down inna di west, down inna di west   While a Apache form dem nest, dem nest   Outlaw Josey Wale, get vexed   (Get vexed)      All bounty hunter dem draw fi dem vest   (Dem vest)   Gold an diamond wicked man intercept   (Intercept)   Pack up mi saddle and decide to make a flex   Way back inna di future   Where me have to make a step   (All sing along)      Memories don't live like people do   They always 'member you   Whether things are good or bad   It's just the memories that you have   The Beenie Man a sing   (Say hey)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass   (Again)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Body between di board head peep through the glass   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass      I cyaan believe or understand   Why some man approach with white man tradition   Talk 'bout dem a Cowboy and Indian   Me a African an me born black ,an      And a who upon di mic di fabulous Beenie Man   Some mawga skinny and same cranky one   Talking lyric to all di nation   (All sing along)      Memories don't live like people do   They always 'member you   Whether things are good or bad   It's just the memories that you have   The Beenie Man a sing   (Say hey)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass   (Again)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Body between di board head peep through the glass   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass      What I caan understand   Why some man ah revere white man tradition   Talk 'bout dem a Cowboy and Indian   Like dem no respect dem complexion      Mi black and mi ugly, Africa me come from   One day yuh got to return to dat land   Selassie I, me praise   Its here me make mi stand   (So sing along)      Memories don't live like people do   They always 'member you   Whether things are good or bad   It's just the memories that you have   The Beenie Man a sing   (Say hey)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Now yuh dead that mean yuh soul lost   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass   (Again)      Boy, stop live down inna de past   Just member when man a ride 'orse   Body between di board head peep through the glass   Crushed like a serpent snake under grass