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SWEET TRINIDAD
Arranged & adapted by Van Dyke Parks
Album: Discover America
Sweet Trinidad, sweet, sweet Trinidad
Darling keep your home fires burning
Use gas, don't burn any wood.
Well, I've traveled the USA from north to south
I didn't meet a single girl to shout about
They worked me very hard but they paid me good
I put on a little weight eating Yankee food.
From Miami to New York to Los Angeles
Wherever I play the people mighty pleased,
Yankee dollar real appeals to me
Never forget sweet "La Trinity."
And I remember
Sweet Trinidad, sweet, sweet Trinidad
Darling, keep your home fires burning
Use gas, don't burn any wood.
Sweet Trinidad, sweet, sweet Trinidad
Darling, keep your home fires burning
Use gas, don't burn any wood.
Source: "Discover America", Warner Bros. release #46 166
Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.
Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.
Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare
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