Sweet Mother

"Sweet mother" na-bụ abu.

Asụsụ ahụ nke "Sweet mother" na-bụ Pijin.

Okwu.

Sesa, Rocafil Jazz
Presenting to you, Sweet Mother

Chorus
 Sweet mother,  I no go forget you
 For this suffer,  wey you suffer for me eh
 Sweet mother,  I no go forget you
 For this suffer,  wey you suffer for me eh
 
Verse 1
  When I dey cry
 My mother she go carry me
 She go say "my pikin'
 Wey thing you dey cry oh oh
 Stop-stop (3x)
 And make you no cry again oh

When I want sleep
My mother go bed me
She go lie me well well for bed oh
She cover me cloth
Say make me sleep
Sleep sleep, my pikin oh

 When I dey hungry
My mother go run up and down
She go find me something wey I go chop o
Sweet mother, ah ah
Sweet mother, oh oh

Say, my sweet mother

When I dey sick
My mother go cry cry cry
 She go say instead when I go die
 Then make she die oh
She go pray God
Gold help me, God help me
Oh, my pikin o

Ao, my mother o
If I no sleep
 My mother no go sleep
 If I no chop
My mother no go chop
She no dey tire ah
Sweet mother
I no go forget this suffer wey you suffer me eh eh
Sweet mother eh eh
Sweet mother eh oh

Sweet mother I no go forget you o
For the suffer wey you suffer for me

And If I should forget you
Therefore I forget my life
The air I breathe
Ei, sesa
I dare you all men
Dare you not forget your mother
For if you forget your mother
You've lost your life

Repeat Chorus

Verse 2
When I dey cry
  My mother she go carry me
  She go say "my pikin'
  Wey thing you dey cry ei ei
  Stop-stop (3x)
  And make you no cry again oh
 
Oh my mother, oh sorry

 When I want sleep
 My mother go bed me
 She go lie me well well for bed oh
 She cover me cloth
 Say make me sleep
 Sleep sleep, my pikin oh
 
 When I dey hungry
 Mty mother go run up and down
 She go find me something wey I go chop o
 Sweet mother, ei ei ei
 Sweet mother, oh hey ei

When I dey sick
 My mother go cry cry cry
  She go say instead when I go die
  Then make she die oh
She go pray God
 Gold help me, God help me
 Oh, my pikin o
 
 If I no sleep
  My mother no go sleep
  If I no chop
 My mother no go chop
 She no dey tire ah
 Sweet mother
 I no go forget this suffer wey you suffer me ei ei
Sweet mother eh eh
 Sweet mother eh oh
 
Oh, sweet mother
I no go forget you o
 For the suffer wey you suffer for me
 
Yei, my mother
You are the one who suffer for me

Ma, Susan, my sweet mother
You are the one who suffer for me

My sweet mother, I no go forget you
My sweet mother wey suffer for me
When I dey cry
My mother go cry
She no knowo wetin go do
"You no well?
Na wetin dey worry you my pikin?"
You fit get another wife
You fit get another husband
But you fit get another mother?
No!

My mother is great, greater than the world

 When I dey hungry
 Mty mother go run up and down
 She go find me something wey I go chop o
 Sweet mother, ei ei ei
 Sweet mother, oh hey ei
 
 When I dey sick
 My mother go cry cry cry
  She go say instead when I go die
  Then make she die oh
 She go pray God
 Gold help me, God help me
 Oh, my pikin o
 
 If I no sleep
  My mother no go sleep
  If I no chop
 My mother no go chop
 She no dey tire ah
 Sweet mother
 I no go forget this suffer wey you suffer me ei ei
 Sweet mother ah ah
 Sweet mother ei ei ei
 
 Sweet mother ah ah
  Sweet mother ei ei ei
  
 Sweet mother ah ah
  Sweet mother ei ei ei
  
© Prince Nico Mbarga