I Believe In You [Song]

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I BELIEVE IN YOU
By Gypsy
Arranged by Godwin Bowen & Gypsy
T&T 1990

Spoken words: My Trinidad and Tobago, I love you. I loved you then, I love you now. I will always love you.

You fill the pockets of many when plenty wealth came your way
But some of us abuse it badly, we never thought it could go away
No care was shown, no fear were known, in abundance then you provide
Like soldiers made of sponge and glass, we marched along by your side.
But now the war is on, where have your soldiers gone?
Inspired by their own fear and greed, desert you when you are most in need.

I say...
Everybody should believe in something
And everybody should believe in someone too
If everyone do believe just the way I do
Then my Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you
My Trinidad and Tobago, I still believe in you.

I once heard some say, "This is my land of which I am proud and glad."
But as soon as you fall on hard times, they relish in talking you bad
And so to foreign shores and lands they fly, subhuman status they seek
How could people you have made so strong become so fragile and weak?
Or am I thinking wrong? Now were they ever strong?
Or the constraints that comes along with change
Have ruptured their patriotic vein.

I ask...
Everybody must believe in something
And everybody should believe in someone too
If everyone do believe the simple way I do
Then my Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you
My sweet Trinidad and Tobago, I still believe in you.

I heard some call you the Godfather of our whole Caribbean
It's because of your selfless action in almost any situation
Good friends you had, or so you thought and then by the fold they grew
But now you learn when a man is down, how his good friends can be few
But that's all right, I say, it's not too far away
Your ship would surely come in one day
Then they'll learn ungratefulness never pay.

I say...
Everybody should believe in someone
And everybody must believe in something too
If everyone do believe just the way I do
My sweet Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you
My Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you.

And like the sun that rise in the morning
I shall watch you rise again
And hypocrites who curse your existence,
Shall bow to proclaim your name
And like the mother you are, with open arms you'll forgive their scorn
And I can hear you say, "Welcome! This is the land of which you were born."

But everybody should believe in someone
And everybody must believe in something too
If everybody do believe the way I do
Well my Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you
My Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you.

[I believe] I believe [I believe] I believe [I believe in you] I believe in you!
From among your economic ruins --------------------
I'll stand on the highest mountain and feel proud to still say aloud
I believe, I believe, I believe in you!
I believe one day we'll pay off the IMF their money and ease all the strain
And the gloom that hangs over Port of Spain will no longer hang again
Good God, I know I believe, I believe, I still believe in 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, Gypsy! "My Trinidad and Tobago, I believe in you!" It is evident that the sentiments expressed here are coming straight from your heart. Congratulations also on "Remember When" - the latest project undertaken by your Ministry. I look forward to visiting the site when it becomes available online.

Ministry compiles ‘Remember When’. T&T's Newsday | Saturday, September 10 2011

An institute which would provide citizens with access to cultural memories of this country’s past has been proposed by the Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston Peters.

The minister made the announcement yesterday during the ministry’s launch of its “Remember When” Exhibition at the Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA).

The “Remember When” exhibition is a venture of the ministry to preserve the country’s folk culture and heritage while educating the public on its history and providing enjoyment.

The minister said, “Remembering as a people is very important to the survival of a culture. Our shared heritage creates a collective understanding of who we are, as Trinbagonians.” Peters continued that the preservation of the recordings of our culture would help define who we are as a people. “These human treasures cannot be hung on the walls of museums, but they are indeed precious, as they would help us remember who we are as a people, and define our culture as distinctly Trinbagonian.” said Peters

He continued that the ministry has been in the process of storing data which would be used in the proposed institute.

“The ministry owns a storehouse of intangible artifacts which reflects directly, an image of ourselves as we have lived over the past 40 years. For two and a half years , the Division of Culture has been digitising materials that would one day be stored in the institute.” said Peters

Artifacts of long ago folklore songs, stories, books, newspapers, art, journals, music and calypsonians were on display at the exhibition as well as digitised memories that were previously stored by the now defunct National Cultural Council. The ministry also launched a web-page which stores a compilation of audio-visual material, manuscripts, and photographs from as far back as the 1880s. The “Remember When” web-page, according to Peters, is unlike any other cultural e-based repository in this country. The web-page would be open to the public in three months time.

Guests such as Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool, and historian Bridget Brereton, were present at the exhibition.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism, Jennifer Jones, said the exhibition would give citizens the opportunity to compare the music, literature and folklore from then to now. The exhibition would be open to the general public from today until September 24 from 9am to 5pm on Mondays to Fridays and 10am to 6pm on weekends.

"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