Something Salt [Song]

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SOMETHING SALT
By Mighty Chalkdust (1977)

Christmas morning I helping my wife to put up curtain
My big fowl cock started crowing
I say, "Girl, somebody coming."
Was Roy Augustus and Scottie, -------- Lance and Kenny
Leave town and come Diego Martin, mopping drinks and singing.

Hear them...

[Neighbour!] Get up is Christmas morning
[Neighbour!] Is punch a creme we drinking
[Neighbour!] Get up, get up from your bed
[Neighbour!] Slice up some cake and sweet bread
With something salt, something salt, something salt to pass in we mouth
[Something salt, something salt, something salt to pass in mih mouth]

Into my house them limers walked
I gave them salted garlic pork
With rum, scotch and punch a creme, sorrel, ginger beer
I gave them salt biscuits to eat with salt nuts and good salt meat
I even gave them a salt prune yet they kept singing that tune.

Hear Roy....

[Neighbour!] Get up is Christmas morning
[Neighbour!] Is punch a creme we drinking
[Neighbour!] Get up, get up from your bed
[Neighbour!] Slice up some cake and sweet bread
With something salt, something salt, something salt to pass in we mouth
[Something salt, something salt, something salt to pass in mih mouth]

I had to call on my neighbours to help me cool them limers
Rupert, Gomez, Carlos, Samuel, ------------ and Maxwell
Mih neighbours cook up salt pamie with saltfish, pastelle, Cheewee
And yet them limers still find fault and begging for something salt.

Hear Lance....

[Neighbour!] Wake up is Christmas morning
[Neighbour!] Is punch a creme we drinking
[Neighbour!] Get up, get up from your bed
[Neighbour!] We don't like cake and sweet bread
Without something salt, something salt, something to pass in we mouth
[Something salt, something salt, something salt to pass in mih mouth]
We want something salt, something salt, something salt to pass in we mouth

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, Chalkdust!! This song puts a big smile on my face always.

"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