Take Yuh Meat Out Mih Rice [Song]

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TAKE YOUR MEAT OUT MIH RICE
By Lord Kitchener

A Bajan and a Trinidadian dying with starvation
The Bajan say, "Look, Trini, let we make a cook.
I put the rice, you going put the meat
Then we going both have something to eat."
But when the pot was nearly to done
The Bajan decide to pull a fast one.

He said, "Trini, I’m a born Barbadian, I don't like to fight
But when come to the occasion, man, I stick fuh mih right
You put in a twelve-cents meat bone, you worse than a lice
I going give you a word of advice, "Take your meat out mih rice!"

Trini got in a big rage, "What wrong with you, Baje?
I going tell you flat, Baje, I ain't taking that!
When we were shopping we both agree
The food will be cook and share equally
I put mih last penny in this meat and I ain't moving until I eat."

Baje say, "Trini, I’m a born Barbadian, I don't like to fight
But when come to the occasion, man, I die fuh mih right
You put in a ten-cents meat bone, you think that is nice?
Well don't make me have to tell you twice, "Take your meat out mih rice!"

The Bajan then said to Trini, "Man don't tell lies on me.
I never told you that we going join and cook up in two.
What I mention, I can repeat, I said to lend me a piece of meat."
Trini so vex, he begin to cry, "Baje, in front mih eye you telling a lie?"

Baje say, "Trini, I’m a born Barbadian, I don't like to fight
But when come to the occasion, man I die fuh right.
Yuh put in a nine-cents meat bone, good lord, you want half a slice?
If you don't want a Bajan ice, "Take your meat out mih rice!"

By this time the pot finish, Trini pick up a dish
The Bajan say, "No no, no, never happen so!
If you wanted something to eat, man take a fork and pick out your meat
But if you add one grain of rice, by christ, I squeeze yuh throat like a vise."

"Trini, I’m a born Barbadian, I don't like to fight
But when come to the occasion, man I die fuh mih right
You put in a eight-cents meat bone, you Trinidadian lice
Before I squeeze you like -------, "Take your meat out mih rice!"

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are 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, Lord Kitchener! I love how Kitchener thought as the song progressed to consistently lower the price of the meat to further illustrate Baje's attempts to minimise Trini's contribution to the meal.

"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