One Umbrella

One umbrella for two of us
Two of us
Rain dey drum the canopy
The canopy
Your left shoulder don dey wet
Don dey wet
One umbrella, waka slow

Waka slow
Slow o
Waka slow
Slow o

The bus stop shed don overflow
Everybody squeeze like sardine
You dey stand for the edge dey soak
Pretending say you no send
I open my umbrella, nod
You look me like exam question
Then the thunder answer for me
You enter, we start to waka

If the rain no stop
We sef no dey stop
If the rain no stop
We sef no dey stop

One umbrella for two of us
Two of us
Rain dey drum the canopy
The canopy
Your left shoulder don dey wet
Don dey wet
One umbrella, waka slow

Your office dey Marina side
My own dey the opposite road
I lie say we dey the same direction
The lie add forty-five minutes
We waka past three okada
Wey dey beg to carry us
You say no with your eye each time
The umbrella too small to share three

The rain don reduce to drizzle
I dey pray make cloud gather again
Your office gate don show for far
You stop, fold the umbrella slow
Say make the rain join us small

One umbrella for two of us
Two of us
Rain dey drum the canopy
The canopy
Your left shoulder don dey wet
Don dey wet
One umbrella, waka slow
Waka slow, slow o

Drizzle dey finish
One umbrella