Good Driving [Song]

Uploaded by Clynton Mann
GOOD DRIVING
By Luta

They say he was too vindictive and wicked, he had vengeance against Trini
Abu Bakr should kill him, July 1990
Only thinking about Tobago, he ent deserve to be alive
So we kick him out and tell him go, singing the driver can't drive.

But now, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
The driver renovate the kitchen for 1.6 million
Advertise the face on TV for only 400 grand.
Boy, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
You better take your separation and don't call it retrenchment
It's rightsizing operation from the people's government.
I tell you, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

The dragon spitting fire, look how them five little children drown
Explosion in Camp Omega, so the driver took the dragon down
But then thirteen people dead in St. Ann's, up to now I still feeling shame
After thorough investigations, they can't even find a dove to blame.

Fus the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
Eric Williams died since '81, and this everybody know
Yet the driver say he just holding on and is Eric running the show.
I tell you, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
A fella borrowed 12 million dollars, with bad planning, he lost everything
But the driver take him and make him Minister of Planning
The driver good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

I am not so stupid to oppose them, this is PNM country
Robinson was the problem; praise God we get rid of he
Since we send him back to Castara, poor people ent poor again
No more armed robberies and murder, no more vagrants in Port of Spain.

That's because the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
And there was no devaluation, the dollar just float in town
That's the way to fight inflation, this year food price coming down.
Why? The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
You paying too much tax already and this is a caring government
So the exorbitant transfer fee is not a tax, that's a punishment.
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

Don't ever think the driver is stupid because he ent explain yet
Why he think it is valid to put more Indians in Cabinet
And when it comes to making Budget, what an outstanding human being
Oil is thirteen dollars on the market but he sure we go get nineteen.

The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
The driver went and tell Bill Clinton, he want to catch some drug traffickers
But if he ent get assistance, all ah we go be drug pushers
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
They used to call Eric "deafy", Robinson, they say was heartless
I and all thought Chambers duncee but this fella is the best.
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

The driver driving goooood, the country moving smooooth
The driver driving goooood, the country moving smooooth...

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, Luta.

"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