Culture [Song]

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CULTURE
By Tambu
Arranged by Pelham Goddard
Album: "Culture: T&T 1988

I don't mind we practice the cultures that come from a foreign land
But we have our own thing right here
That needs even more attention...oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
I am talking about calypso, steel pan and limbo dance
Tassa drumming is ours also, let's give their growing chance
We must show more love for the things we own
For their future is our concern.

So let we love [the calypso] and give praise [to the limbo]
And believe [in the steel pan] for the next [generation]
Let we love [our tassa], our own [people's culture]
When we look [to the future] is then we're on the road to a brand new mode.

I say a nation without a culture is a people without a soul
They'll have no identification
Like a fool in a wise man's world...oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
It is time that we become conscious and truly accept we own
Just remember your own thing comes first and charity begins at home
We must show more love for the things we own
For their future is our concern.

So let we love [the calypso] and give praise [to the limbo]
And believe [in the steel pan] for the next [generation]
Let we love [our tassa], our own [people's culture]
When we look [to the future] is then we're on the road to a brand new mode. 

[Yay oh, bamba yay ay oh. Yay oh, bamba yay oh] Limbo, limbo like me!
[Yay oh, bamba yay ay oh. Yay oh, bamba yay oh]
[Oh ho, oh ho!]

I say the load may look very heavy and the road may seem very long
As you know success don't come easy,
You got to work and struggle on...oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
It is hard for someone to love you if you don't love yourself
If we want we culture to break through, we got to lift the load for weself
We must show more love for the things we own
For their future is our concern.

So let we love [the calypso] and give praise [to the limbo]
And believe [in the steel pan] for the next [generation]
Let we love [our tassa], our own [we must nurture]
When we look [to the future] is then we're on the road to a brand new mode. [Yay oh, bamba yay ay oh. Yay oh, bamba yay oh] Limbo, limbo like me!
[Yay oh, bamba yay ay oh. Yay oh, bamba yay oh] Limbo, limbo like me!

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! ..............................................................................................................................


A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Christopher "Tambu" Herbert!

"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