Before me creep and know how fi walk
Teach mi a few words when mi no know how fi talk
Couldn't explain myself mi just know how fi bawl
Yu de beside mi throughout this all
So mi haffi salute you daddy
Yu show what a father is
Yu never lef when di belly a mi mother big
When yu a plan yu think bout mi future to
When nuff no have youth dem talk a bag a good things dem wuda do
But yu see when the child born
Him never tek di bicycle ride gone
Fi mummy no see him again
Him know bout school and all mi teacher dem
Mi say mi respect goes out
To di real father dem
Yu see everything you did for me
Whole heap a thanks mi give daddy
Yeah, my respect goes out
To di real father dem
Yu see everything you did for me
Whole heap a thanks mi give daddy
And every Christmas and every birthday
Still a get a gift even when it's the worse day
I remember seeing pictures of my first cake
Yu call mi winner even when I'm not the first place
Yu teach mi fi count
Yu no easy fi doubt
Yu believe ina mi
Yu really support
Yu tell me sky is the limit
Yu tell me reach fi di clouds
Mi say mi respect goes out
To di real father dem
Yu see everything you did for me
Whole heap a thanks mi give daddy
Yeah, my respect goes out
To di real father dem
Yu see everything you did for me
Whole heap a thanks mi give daddy
How di daughter fi born
Father quit
Hear say she sick
Nah visit
Years after she get a scholarship
Pity yu never know
A karma this
That's my girl you proud fi say
The sound she state that was the only way
Har life never sweet like honey from no hive
Nuff no know how dem youth survive
Mi say mi respect goes out
To di real father dem
Yu see everything you did for me
Whole heap a thanks mi give daddy
My respect goes out
To di real father dem
Yu see everything you did for me
Whole heap a thanks mi give daddy

Before me creep and know how fi walk
Teach mi a few words when mi no know how fi talk
Couldn't explain myself mi just know how fi bawl
Yu de beside mi throughout this all
So mi haffi salute you daddy
Yu show what a father is
Yu never lef when di belly a mi mother big