Valerie

Don't remember this
- the handwriting is mine
- and I remember Valerie.


I'm Valerie
An' they pick on me
They ban me from school
For acting the fool.
Is it brains that I lack?
Is it jus' that I'm Black?

Two's me, two's me
Cho man, talk t' me
Don' mek me feel bad
D' ye think dat I'm mad?

Well I plan day by day
Try to get my own way
I don' have to behave
I can joke - I can rave
Push the teachers aroun'
Rub their nose in the groun'
Well tha's bad, but it's me
An' I'm called - Valerie.