Patricia Gone With Millicent, and The Fig Man [Song]

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PATRICIA GONE WITH MILLICENT
By The Mighty Terror

Patricia has left me
You would be shocked to hear who replace me
My Patricia has left me
You would be shocked to hear who replace me
Days upon days, I sits down and cry
You may want to ask me the reason why
But the thing that is hurting me
She is gone to live with a young lady.

Chorus:
Could you tell me where my Patricia went? [She gone with Millicent]
I cannot believe, not for one moment [She gone with Millicent]

Ah, I always noticing Milicent pays Patricia a visit
But I never study no funny move with these two young ladies
But anyhow I turn I can always see
Pat and Millicent always on a spree
And when you hear the crash, well that was the case
Millicent move Patricia out my place.

Chorus:
Could you tell me where my Patricia went? [She gone with Millicent]
I cannot believe, not for one moment [She gone with Millicent]

Yes, I found where they living
I called Patricia and started begging
Darling, please come back to Terror
She told me, No, Millicent would beat her
I ask her why but she would not say
Then Millicent came and pull her away
Gave her a slap and then close the door
And shouted, "Don't speak to Terror no more!"

Chorus:
Could you tell me where my Patricia went? [She gone with Millicent]
I cannot believe, not for one moment [She gone with Millicent]

Yes, I'm warning you young men
When you got your girlfriends, you better watch them
Keep your girlfriends away from girlfriend
Because these girlfriends does cause a sad end
You may think I am jocular
But this really happened in Manchester
I felt so ashamed, my friends laughed at me
I had to take a train for London city.

Chorus:
Could you tell me where my Patricia went? [She gone with Millicent]
I cannot believe, not for one moment [She gone with Millicent]

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, Mighty Terror, for sharing the details of what some say is a true story. 

The Mighty Terror was not afraid to address the subject of same sex relationships. The Fig Man below is another calypso in which he repels the advances of a male. This calypso's equanimity is way ahead of its time. The Mighty Terror is rejecting Mister Jack's same sex advances but without any of the acrimony or moralising you might have expected at that time. While he acknowledges that others may be that way inclined, he simply has no personal interest in what Mister Jack is offering. I find this song engaging and amusing because of the sustained and well-developed double entendre. This subject is not easily addressed in any society because opinions are divided so he uses the double meaning to lessen the risk of offending listeners on both sides of the fence.

In Trinidad and Tobago, apart from the phallic overtones employed in this song, the word fig is also used to mean banana, the fruit of the cultivated species of the genus Musa. So you will find Trinbagonians using the names of the different varieties of banana to qualify the word fig. You can expect to hear Lacatan fig instead of Lacatan banana, Silk fig, Plantain fig, Sucrier fig, Gros Michel fig and so on. To my knowledge the common fig [Ficus genus] is not grown in Trinidad and Tobago and I cannot explain how the word, fig, came to be synonymous with banana.

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FIG MAN
By Mighty Terror

What's wrong with Jack? I want to know.
What's wrong with Jack? What's wrong with Jack?
Why this man always feeling up my back? Ah-ah!
I don't like that! No, Mister Jack!
Don't get me vex, don't feel me, I am not the female sex!
He said he have plenty land, he have a big fig plantation
But he don't employ woman. All he want is a nice man.
He said, "Terror, you would do."
I say, "What? Who the hell you talking to?
I ent leaving my profession to join in your fig man gang. Not me!"

Chorus:
I can't tote no load at all on my back, Mister Jack! Let me warn you!
Go and look for some young boy to do that, Mister Jack!
Not because I looking strong, not because my back look round
Not because my back look fat
I ent toting no fig on that! Not me!

My big sister said, "Listen Terror,
Fig business have plenty money so don't refuse the offer. Oh no!"
She said to me, "Terror, I guarantee
As soon as you done work, open your hand, you getting money.
That business is right on top
Every day fig men going to him for work.
So he want to employ me in the fig man company
But my back so old and hard
This fat back business go drive me mad
He said, "The work ent hard and it clean
Grease your back with some Vaseline," but not me!

Chorus:
I can't tote no load at all on my back, Mister Jack! Let me warn you!
Go and look for some young boy to do that, Mister Jack!
Not because I looking strong, not because my back look round
Not because my back look fat
I ent toting no fig on that! [Not me!]

I always heard since I was small - Work is no disgrace
Don't mind what kind of work it is at all. Oh yes!
And that is true, I am not misled
The Good Book said, "By the sweat of thy brow,
So man shall eat bread."
So Mister Jack, that ----- man
Always have fig well pack up on a stand
He is always ploughing land
He have work for any hard working man
But I am no hard working man
So from me Jack wouldn't get no production
But I could recommend Mr Suite,
He living on Buller Street. But not me!

Chorus:
I can't tote no load at all on my back, Mister Jack! Let me warn you!
Go and look for some young boy to do that, Mister Jack!
Not because I looking strong, not because my back look round
Not because my back look fat
Not a damn fig ent going on that! Not me!

Just recently I got to know
That Mister Jack is a fig man that was born in Tobago. Oh yes!
He planting fig since he was small
So now he come a big man, he cannot stop doing that at all
But if he think he catching me to break my back, I sorry for he!
I ent toting fig at all, big, medium-size, not even small
Toting fig is not my line
Look for Mighty Power, he strong behind
Or why not try Explainer, he toting from plantain to banana. But not me!

Chorus:
I can't tote no load at all on my back, Mister Jack! Let me warn you!
Go and look for some young boy to do that, Mister Jack!
Not because I looking strong, not because my back look round
Not because my back look fat
Not a damn fig ent going on that! Not me!

I can't tote no load at all on my back, Mister Jack! Let me warn you!
Go and look for some young boy to do that, Mister Jack!
Not because I looking strong, not because my back look round
Not because my back look fat
I ent toting no fig on that! Not 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!
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"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