Sweet Cassava

Sweet cassava, you sweet me
Groundnut oil dey shine your skin
Red cup measure, price me sweetly
Sweet cassava, sell me Tuesday

Cassava (eh-eh)
Cassava (eh-eh)

I see you for the Tuesday market
Your stall dey face the yellow kiosk
You dey measure garri with the red cup
Your bangle dey knock the wooden table
I buy pepper wey I no need
I buy onions make I see you smile
You collect my change with your left hand
Your right hand dey wave the flies away

Monday slow, Monday slow
Tuesday, come quick, come quick

Sweet cassava, you sweet me
Groundnut oil dey shine your skin
Red cup measure, price me sweetly
Sweet cassava, sell me Tuesday

Today I carry my good shirt
The one with the mother-of-pearl button
Your mama dey watch me from the shade
Her eye dey talk wetin her mouth no talk
You wrap my yam inside old newspaper
Your finger touch my finger small
The whole market dey make noise around us
But that touch loud pass the generator

Monday slow, Monday slow
Tuesday, come quick, come quick

Sweet cassava, you sweet me
Groundnut oil dey shine your skin
Red cup measure, price me sweetly
Sweet cassava, sell me Tuesday

I bend my knee by your mama's stool
Under the shade where the market cool
I say, "Mama, I no come for pepper"
She laugh, she say, "I know, I know"

Sweet cassava, you sweet me
Groundnut oil dey shine your skin
Red cup measure, price me sweetly
Mama say yes, every Tuesday

Cassava (eh-eh)
Every Tuesday