Red, White and Black [Song]

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RED, WHITE AND BLACK
By Gary Jackson (2012)

Spoken: This is what I meant when I gave the nation as its slogan for all time: Discipline, Production, Tolerance. Our national flag belongs to all of us, our national coat of arms with our national birds. Inspired therein is the sacred trust of all our citizens. So it is today, please, I urge you, let it always be so. Let us always be able to say with the psalmist:

"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."

Words of the founding father. Yeah, gimme the music!

Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black

Oh yes, I remember liming on the main road whole night
Me, you, Chin and Dougla, everything was all right
All this talk I hearing lately 'bout racism and ethnicity
Can't destroy the love deep inside of me
For my beautiful twin island, Mother T&T.

Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T.

T&T, T&T, children of mother T&T

So much to unite us and bind us as one people
To me it's more than obvious, we are inseparable
Ain't nobody like we, J'Ouvert morning, come, you go see
No race, no class, no envy
Is pure love, children of Mother T&T.

Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T

Oh yeah, oh yeah!...

Let me tell you the only way to go forward
Is to love one another, love one another... oh yeah
Love one another, love one another.

Let's take Trinidad and Tobago higher.

Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T

On this grand occasion, fiftieth anniversary
Time for deep reflection as we celebrate the journey
Kaiso, steelpan, chutney
Crab and dumpling, pelau, roti
Laventille or Caroni,
Pure love, children of mother T&T.

Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black
Gimme the red, white and black, Mother T&T

T&T, T&T, children of mother T&T

Spoken: I know we may come from different fathers but that is no reason to keep us apart. Trinidad and Tobago, it's time that we start. We heading for a new future and we could only do that together as one people. Mother Trinidad and Tobago, love you! Yeah, yeah! Mother T&T, T&T, T&T, children of Mother T&T. Blessings!

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, Gary Jackson!

"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