One Loose Braid

One loose braid by your ear
(By your ear)
My finger dey learn for mirror
(For mirror)
You laugh but you no repair am
(No repair am)
One loose braid, na my signature

Ah, na me do am
(Na him do am)
Ah, na me do am

Sunday evening for the veranda
Comb and oil and small mirror
You teach me part the sections
My hands dey shake like new driver
Your small cousin dey supervise
Her laugh dey score my crooked lines
One braid come out proper
The rest resemble basket

Slow hand, soft hand
Learn am like language
Slow hand, soft hand
Learn am like language

One loose braid by your ear
(By your ear)
My finger dey learn for mirror
(For mirror)
You laugh but you no repair am
(No repair am)
One loose braid, na my signature

Monday you go work like that
Your colleague point the loose one
You check am for the office mirror
Say na handmade, no be factory
Every Sunday I dey improve
The basket don turn to pattern
But you still dey leave one loose

Say perfection go spoil the story

The comb rest for the window ledge
Oil bottle half remain
Your cousin don graduate to critic
She say my hand don sabi small
The loose braid stay, by agreement

One loose braid by your ear
(By your ear)
The mirror don sabi my work
(Sabi the work)
You laugh and you no repair am
(No repair am)
One loose braid, na my signature

Handmade, no be factory
One loose braid