What Kind Of Country Are You? [Song]

Uploaded by ScorpioPetey
WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY ARE YOU?
By K.D.
Arranged by Winsford De Vine
Album: "Five for the road," T&T 1981

I am in confusion, I can't find no bliss
Within your foundation something is amiss
I was born on your land, became a man on your land
Yet I can't seem to understand
What kind of country are you?

The form of democracy that shapes your bureaucracy
Is fraught with hypocrisy
What kind of country are you?

The common administration overreach their jurisdiction
Because there is no opposition
What kind of country are you?

In all our technology your system is absolutely
Defunct and unparliamentary
And poor constitutionally
What kind of country are you?

Like the boy in England who stood in his shoes
In stupefication, I am so confused
People singing calypso, making you a pappyshow
I feel you owe me the right to know
What kind of country are you?

Because our wrong policies
Substandard pirate industries
Abusing monopolies
What kind of country are you?

Citizens of other countries ------ large properties
Trinis paying boarding fees
What kind of country are you?

Whatever the merchants selling, everyday the price are rising
A browbeaten public buying
One day little, next nothing
What kind of country are you?

I know people working forty years and more
For an honest living and still remain poor
I see rogues and parasites become wealthy overnight
Because their strings connections are right
What kind of country are you?

So much corruptions and racket, profiteering and black market
Silently you just condone it
What kind of country are you?

Your community departments are so obsolete in contents
Their functions are incompetence
What kind of country are you?

WASA like a mad gravedigger, T&TEC for minus power
BWIA is a circus of error
TELCO cannot find the answer
What kind of country are you?

You calling your nation cosmopolitan
What a fine distinction for so frail a plan
How can you ignore the man whose blood and tears are on your land?
It's just beyond my comprehension
What kind of country are you?

You do not intend to learn to direct your due concern
And appreciate your own
What kind of country are you?

To those who are by your side, you are failing to confide
Their feeling of national pride
What kind of country are you?

WASA like a mad gravedigger, T&TEC for minus power
BWIA is circus of error
TELCO cannot find the answer
What kind of country are you?

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, K.D. What an unique and striking calypso! I did not know of K.D. until I came across this calypso on YouTube [Thank you, ScorpioPetey!] and I am now very eager to learn more about him. Do you know anything about K.D.? Please share.

"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