Lyrics Ye Ye De Smell - Fela Kuti

Everybody I'll like you to meet Ginger Baker
Everybody get down, Ginger Baker

Yeah, don't worry na
That's enough, that's enough
The record is moving, the record is moving
Don't let's stop

Now we're gonna go into our next tune now
This one is called in my own thing, language, Ye-ye De Smell
Smell is English, Ye-ye de smell, that means
This is like a kind of friendship thing
When you're, you're somebody's friend
And he's doing the things that a friend doesn't do
Then he smells, ra ra

I'm gonna feature Ginger in this tune
I wrote this tune specially for Ginger
Ye-ye De Smell, he doesn't smell really
He takes his bath
One, two, three, four

O ko ja lo, o l'oun o koja
A-ke-ke-ke, a-ke-ke-ke, o jo koja
O je obo mi, o ba obirin mi sun
O ko ja
Mo ba obirin re sun, o ju
Mo f'oko si, o pariwo
Mo ba obirin re sun, mo f'oko si, o pariwo

Ye-ye de smell, o pariwo
Ye-ye de smell, o pariwo

O ko ja lo, o l'oun o koja
O se fun mi, mo se fun e, oun pariwo

Ye-ye de smell, o pariwo
A-ke-ke-ke, o jo koja
A-ke-ke-ke, a-ke-ke-ke, o jo koja

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey

The first drummer was Tony Allen
The second drummer was Ginger Baker
And we are together, all backed by the
Out of sight drummers of the Africa '17