The 'Jellybean Boy' Back Story...
The song 'Jellybean Boy' and a series of drawings started this whole project!
This song is based on an old 1968 movie ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’.
The movie depicts a white liberal family facing their own latent racism when their daughter introduces them to her black fiancé.
Watch it when you get a moment!
Jellybean Boy Lyrics
Intro
I’m in love with a pretty girl her little name is Jelly
She rock my world, her kisses curl my dreadies when she tell me
Chorus
She said black, black jellybean boy mmm mmm love me I’m yours
Black, black jellybean boy mmm mmm love me some more
Verse 1
Jellybean black, jellybean white, living in a jellybean jah
Colour of skin don’t mean a thing when love is beating in your heart
Chorus
Verse 2
She love me like gold, she love me like glue, she love me like dynamite
Despite of their views, you’ll never guess who’s, coming to dinner tonight
Middle 8 rap
More gimme more in me little fat belly
Me sitting on the sofa and me ate all be jelly
Watching all them riots, reporter in the helli
I don’t know why they’re fighting man
I got a black and white telly
Chorus
Verse 3
What colour is love and God above
Is he red, white and blue
If I love you and you love me
Who cares who’s who in the zoo
Chorus repeats to fade out with ad libs
Out take – verse never used
One million dollars couldn’t buy your golden heart
I won’t judge you by your colour, I’ll just love you for who you are