Emerald Street - Jamila Woods, SABA

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

I be in my nightgown, chicken wings ready

If you bring the mild sauce, we can go steady

You can have the coleslaw, we can share the one straw

Sit outside on my block

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

O-on Emerald Street where we used to meet, yeah

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

On my ma’s porch seat hoping she won’t see, yeah

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

It’s a wonderful day in the hood

Would you be mine, could you be mine

Won’t you be my neighbour, won’t you be, won’t you be (Would you be mine,

could you be mine)

Won’t you be my neighbour, won’t you be, won’t you be (Would you be mine,

could you be mine)

Won’t you be my…

Not a lot of places we can go to be together

'Coz you know the city, how’d it get so cold

Write a message in a bottle tell your neighbour tell your God and somebody

should remember them

You got my house phone jumping

Play ball in the alley it’s jumping

Treat the corner store likes it’s a luncheon

I heard your best friend like-like my cousin

Old lady say to stay out her grass

Talk back then I got put on punishment

Couldn’t go outside for a meal

Even try to run away like I’m Tubman

I know you like my bike it’s a Huffy

With the pen we be stuntin'

Someone stole it I call shorty

He say he seen someone on it

Got it back the same night

I hope this day never end

Then I tell you how I like you, you say that we were just friends

Damn

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

O-on Emerald Street where we used to meet, yeah

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

On my ma’s porch seat hoping she won’t see, yeah

Day, dai do dai do, dai do day

It’s a wonderful day in the hood

Would you be mine, could you be mine

Won’t you be my neighbour, won’t you be, won’t you be (Would you be mine,

could you be mine)

Won’t you be my neighbour, won’t you be, won’t you be (Would you be mine,

could you be mine)

Won’t you be my…