[Intro: Shaggy]
Level level level, level off, level off
Level off, yeah
I gotta shake the tree, gotta shake the tree
Let 'em know, let 'em know, let 'em know, ha ha ha ha, yeah
Leave it up right, leave it up right
Shaggy
Get it, get it right, right
What I say, what I say, what I say
Check it

[Verse 1: Peter Gabriel]
Waiting your time
Dreaming of a better life
Waiting your time
You're more than just a wife
Don't have to do what your mother has done
She has done
This is your life
This new life has begun

[Refrain: Peter Gabriel]
It's your day
Woman's day
It's your day
A woman's day
[Verse 2: Peter Gabriel]
Turning the tide
You are on the incoming wave
Turning the tide
Know you are nobody's slave
Find your sisters and brothers
Who can hear all the truth in what you say
They can support you
When you're on your way

[Chorus: Youssou N'Dour, Shaggy]
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree

(They gotta be shakin', shakin', I tell you one more time)
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree (Mmm hmm hmm hmm)

[Rap: Shaggy]
Changing faces in the strangest places
Tastin' the fruits of our roots
Ah ha ha ha ha ha
All I gotta do is strive
And try and stay alive
Ald be content until the day that I arrive
Is this really my imagination
That I'm confronted with these altercations, yeah
I guess I ain't got much to lose
Life is what I choose
[Refrain: Peter Gabriel]
It's your day
Woman's day
It's your day
A woman's day

[Verse 3: Peter Gabriel]
Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you
Changing your ways, more than any man can do
Open your heart, show him the anger and pain so you heal
Mabe he's looking for his womanly side, let him feel'

You have to be so strong
And you do nothing wrong
Nothing wrong at all
We're gonna break it down
We have to shake it down
Shake it all around

[Chorus: Youssou N'Dour and Shaggy]
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree

Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon
We are shakin' the tree