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MINNIE FROM TRINIDAD
Sung by Judy Garland
From the film "Ziegfeld Girl" (1941)
Aye, aye, aye [La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la]
Aye, aye, aye [La-la-la, la-la-la , la-la-la]
Aye, aye, aye [Aye, aye, aye]
Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye
I'm going to tell you a story
And there's no moral to be made
But don't forget when you're dancing
That somehow the piper must be paid...
Down on an island in the southern seas
There lives a lassie named Minnie Breeze
And all the natives agree that she's
The hottest thing in Trinidad
When Minnie dances I guarantee
With every move of her vertebrae
The temperature jump up ten degree
In Trinidad that isn't bad.
Chorus:
Aye, aye, aye, they call her Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, they all love Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, and all the natives would be so sad
If Minnie ever left Trinidad.
Although the natives loved Minnie so
Minnie had herself a steady beau
A fellow known as Calypso Joe
And Minnie swore they'd never part
But they stepped in only as they could
Min' won a contest for dancing good
So she went away to Hollywood
When Joe heard that, it broke his heart.
Chorus:
Aye, aye, aye, they call her Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, she wasn't good but she wasn't bad
Aye, aye, aye, Calypso Joe was so very sad
When Minnie up and left Trinidad.
In Hollywood Minnie traveled far
They changed her name to Minnie Lamar
And pretty soon she became a star
The siren of the picture show
But one day Minnie got awful mad
A guy got fresh and she said, "You cad!"
"My heart belongs to my Trinidad
My Trinidad Calypso Joe."
Chorus:
Aye, aye, aye, they call her Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, in Hollywood Minnie met her cad
Aye, aye, aye, but there is only one native lad
Gets chinny with Minnie from Trinidad
So Minnie gave up her dough and fame
And she went back to from where she came
But when she got there she heard with shame
That her Calypso Joe was dead
When Minnie heard that, she almost died
She took a gun to try suicide
But as she started to shoot, she cried,
"I think I'd rather live instead!"
Chorus:
Aye, aye, aye, they call her Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, she went away and they were so sad
Aye, aye, aye, but now the natives are mighty glad
'Cause Minnie came back to Trinidad!
Aye, aye, aye, they call her Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, they all love Minnie from Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye, and all the natives will be so glad
If Minnie, Minnie came back to Trinidad
Aye, aye, aye [Aye, aye, aye]
Aye, aye, aye [Aye, aye, aye]
Aye, aye, aye [Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye]
For Minnie [Minnie, for Minnie, for Minnie]
Minnie [Come home you Minnie, poor Minnie]
Minnie, came back to Trinidad!
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
How did these songs escape me? Growing up, my aunt was the family griot when it came to American pop music. She could dish out the appropriate ditty for any occasion (complete with credible accent) but how was it that Rum and Coca Cola was the only calypso sung by Americans that she passed on to me? Was it that she found the calypso-inspired compositions too familiar, too close to home to be committed to memory? Who knows. It is never too late to learn and I am enjoying discovering these gems.
"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
