Market Chants: Obe ree, obe
Eran niyen o
Nbo nbe
Ee ee ee, obe
Moinmoin epo, ole mi rodo
Iyo olokun ree
E ra’yo e sebe
Eja odo
Eja odo
E wo’ju obe
E wo’ju obe, e mu’yan o
Iru Abekuta ree
Iru Abekuta ree
Gari oloyo dee
Nbo nbo
Ee obe
Lagbaja: Ijebu omo alare, them not dey joke with ikokore
Fela: And gari, morning afternoon and night
Lagbaja: Kwara, them not dey joke with wara
Fela: And eko
Lagbaja: Ekiti, early morning iyan
Fela: Ah! You don’t know? Iyan! Twenty four hours ni
Lagbaja: Early morning iyan, count me out
Fela: Ah! How can you talk like that?
Lagbaja: Count me out its too early for …
Fela: Try
Lagbaja: Try wetin
Fela: Try
Lagbaja: Make I come dey sleep for work
Fela: No, not be that
Lagbaja: When bread and butter dey
Fela: No, excuse me. You see, colonialism makes you think that bread and butter is better than gari
Lagbaja: A ha, Me I not be colo. Bread and butter get him own advantage
Fela: Lai lai
Lagbaja: It get
Fela: Lai lai
Lagbaja: I say, it get
Fela: Lai lai
Lagbaja: Oh baba, you not go want hear person
Fela: Okay, tell me
Lagbaja: Bread and butter not go weigh you down
Fela: that one not concern me
Lagbaja: Ahaa
Fela: It not concern me
Lagbaja: Eh
Fela: You see now. The educated men would eat sausage and bread every morning. They forget that ewa and moinmoin taste better
Lagbaja: Ah … to ba je ti moinmoin, emi wa fun yen o. abi you self like am?
Fela: Me?
Lagbaja: En
Fela: Me, Fela?
Lagbaja: En. You like am?
Fela: Ahaa. You don’t know? Just cut am.sham … sensere. Put am. Pam … pam. Unhun … straight … iyam.
Lagbaja: You go finish am?
Fela: Patapata
Lagbaja: Aah
Fela: (chuckles)
Lagbaja: Baba
Fela: Ha! You don’t know? My name is fela
Gimme gimme better food chop
Chorus: Put am well well
Put am well well
African man he not dey chop small sensere o
As a big man concern
Normally, I not dey chop plenty o
But make you not come think say I dey vex
Put am well well
Gimme gimme better food chop
Ee leba, ee niyan
Ko soka, ko s’anomo
Ki lo w ape mi se ni party o
O sa mo’bi mo ti wa
Put am well well …
Fela: (clears throat) Okay. Now, look. You see, me I know one thing. You see, human beings may seem to be the same. No, but you see, African is different from Europeans in the inner and cultural structure from the creator’s ascendancy.
Lagbaja: Baba
Fela: Na so. White man’s food is white man’s way. You know. The African way gangangan … Unhun … is different from white man’s system
Ahh … Gimme gimme better food chop

Chorus: Put am well well
Put am well well
African man, he not dey chop small sensere o
As a big man concern
Normally I not dey chop plenty o
But make you not come think say I dey vex
You better put am well well
Put am well well
Bi o soka mo nlo
Ma binu kori sile o
Imagine won leba, won n’iyan
Gimme gimme better food chop now now now
Ee lewa, ko si kundi
Le w ape mi si party
Gimme gimme better food chop
Now now now now now now now now
Isu tab’anamo
Asaro te npe leebe
Oka te npe lamala
Iyan, eba, tuwo, moinmoin elepo
Put am well well
Se lo ba wo mi ko tun mi wo dada
Boya mo jo ehoro
Te fi kewe si mi labo o
Ema f’ebi pa mi ku o
Oyinbo je salad mo jefo
Sebi ka ti je vegetable ni
Oyinbo mu youghort, mo mu kunu
Se k’inu sa ti kun o
Put am well well
Put put put put put put put put am
Put am well well
Gimme gimme better food chop
African man, he not dey chop sensere
As a big man concern
Sa I not dey chop plenty o
But make you not dey think say I dey vex
Put am well well

Market chant: E ya wa jeyan ohun o
Fele fele se lo gbona foo
Obe egusi ni mo mi see o
Fisi
Ko’I to o