Sailing [Song]

Uploaded by ScorpioPetey
SAILING
Composed by Winston Devine
Performed by the Mighty Trini

If Trinidad is a boat, sailing on the earth
I go sail on it, O Lord, I go sail on it.
Whether it fast or slow, wheresoever it goes
I going with it, tell dem, I going with it.
I go sail when de tide is slack
I go sail when de tide is neap
If she goin’ to Hell and back
I go make de trip, I bound to make de trip.

Chorus:
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
Through hurricane and storm, Hell or high water come
And when she needs a push, I going to push like bush
If Trinidad is a boat, I go sail on it, sink or float.

I----
Who-----
And I watching them, I say, I watching them
Who giving de captain lip and all who abandon ship
And I markin’ dem, I say, I markin’ dem
Stowaways tiefin’ free passage, castaways with excess baggage
Crimson pirates moving in to kill, but I sailing still, I say, I sailing still.

Chorus:
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
Through hurricane and storm, Hell or high water come
And when she needs a push, I going to push like bush
If Trinidad is a boat, I go sail on it, sink or float.

I am a sailor by birth, calypso in mih throat
And I sailing on, I say I sailing on
Trinbago is my tag, white and black is my flag
And I moving on, I say, I moving on
It is right that I be on board
For in spite of the small reward
As she hastens to her destiny
She ent leaving me, no how she leaving me.

Chorus:
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
Through hurricane and storm, Hell or high water come
And when she needs a push, I going to push like bush
If Trinidad is a boat, I go sail on it, sink or float.

Pessimistic, who think, Soca Boat going to sink
Tell dem, think again, I say, tell dem think again
And all who cherish the hope I go run out of rope
Tell dem, hope again, ah say, tell dem hope again.
I go bail when she spring a leak
Trim the sails when de winds get weak
If she stalling, and she need a push
I go push like bush, O Lord, I go push like bush

Chorus:
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
I sailing with de boat, sink or float, I sailing with de boat
Through hurricane and storm, Hell or high water come
And when she needs a push, I going to push like bush
If Trinidad is a boat, I go sail on it, sink or float.

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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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Mighty Trini!

"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