Mule And Cobo [Song]

MULE AND COBO
By Young Killer

Big joke you'll hear, just take it cool
This happen with the cobo and a mule [Cobo is Trinispeak for corbeau]
Big joke you'll hear, just take it cool
This happen with the cobo and a mule
The mule feel tired so he lie down
Cobo think he dead, he fly down on the ground
Hungry like fire, ah fus he want to eat
Chook he head by the tail to test the meat.

Chorus:
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind.

Standing by Cobo Town
When I saw that the mule was coming down
Top speed, the tail up in the air
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Well, I couldn't believe what I seeing
Behind the mule tail the cobo was flying
Friends, look I laugh, I nearly dead
Seeing the cobo and I cannot see the head.

Chorus:
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind.

The mule turn, he head for Frederick Street
Well, is inside a store he get defeat
They hold him, they band him up with twine
And all this time the cobo lock behind
Friends, Mister Fletcher start to bawl
"What is this inside my store at all?
People breaking down my store to see
A cobo head, oh lord, inside a mule belly!"

Chorus:
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind.

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, Leon Roach for this rendition of Killer's disturbing/fascinating "Mule and Cobo". I have no idea how these calypsonians got their inspiration. I couldn't come up with this story in a million years. I am very familiar with corbeaux and I know that vultures in general begin their feasts at natural orifices and the softest parts of carcasses, which include the "nether regions". But how do you move from this knowledge to visualising a mule running for its life with a corbeau attached? I remain torn between feeling distressed for the poor mule and being amazed by the scene. Since I cannot be sure if the corbeau is there willingly or locked against his will in a sphincter clench, I don't know what to feel for the miserable bird.

"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!
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