Corbeau Flying High [Song]

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CORBEAU FLYING HIGH
By Lord Melody

Sparrow married a woman from New York
I glad, boys, I couldn't talk
Sparrow married a woman from New York
I glad, boys, I couldn't talk
According to what the papers say
He got a contract with RCA
And with that he fell in love, of course
So the wedding took place in St. Thomas.

Chorus:
The papers declare Sparrow found his sugar pie
Corbeau flying high
She leave him and go 'way with teardrops in his eye
Corbeau flying high
He thought people wouldn't know
Though he married as she leave him and go
He search the whole world looking for his sugar plum
Corbeau fly back down.

I thought she was his complexion and size
But no, she was otherwise
If you see she hair how curly and silk
And her face like a pint of milk
He said she was just his manageress
Attending to his social business
But when they check up it's so
Mister and Mrs Francisco.

Chorus:
The papers declare Sparrow found his sugar pie
Corbeau flying high
She leave him and go 'way with teardrops in his eye
Corbeau flying high
He thought people wouldn't know
Though he married as she leave him and go
He search the whole world looking for his sugar plum
Corbeau fly back down.

The boss of the tent --------------------
Sent the first telegram to me
The headline was Sparrow in Barbados
With a ring, six inch in his nose
And from there his wife sign his contract
To drop him some place and turn she back
When I hear the news, I nearly cry
I ask Sparrow and he say they lie.

Chorus:
The papers declare Sparrow found his sugar pie
Corbeau flying high
She leave him and go 'way with teardrops in his eye
Corbeau flying high
He thought people wouldn't know
Though he married as she leave him and go
You know, he search the whole world looking for his sugar plum
Corbeau fly back down.

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

This calypso is so wicked but I am laughing. Why? Something to ponder at another time as I intend to keep on chuckling for the while. Lord Melody and Sparrow had this ongoing sparring in their songs about each other and they were quite merciless. I don't think that they really meant it but it must have been cultivated to draw audiences to enjoy the picong.

"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