One Caribbean/Un Caribe [Song]

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ONE CARIBBEAN/UN CARIBE
By David Rudder
Arranged by Wayne Bruno, David Rudder
Album: Here Comes... The West Indies T&T 1994

We made the same journey but for different reasons
And here we are in these strange lands that we now call home
Yes, we share so much of the same history and culture
But in so many ways we are so apart and so alone
And in this New World Order time we have this common crisis
Our debts won't die away and social tensions on the rise
From Havana to Georgetown, oh, the danger is spreading...yeah
It's time for a common front, it's time that we realise, realise that it's...

One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one love together in a changing world
One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one soul reaching for a common goal...yeah, yeah
One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one heart together in a changing world
One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one love, one heart, one soul reaching for a common goal
One love, one heart, one soul reaching for a common goal.

We got so little on our own but as a region we can face tomorrow
Our athletes and artists have shown the way
And from our roots of resistance and old suffering, we can ride through this new sorrow
We much too bright in spirit not to find a better day
And in this New World Order time we have this common crisis
Our debts won't die away and social tensions on the rise
From Havana to Georgetown, oh, the danger, the danger is spreading
It's time for a common front, it's time that we realise that it's...

One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one heart together in a changing world
One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one soul reaching for a common goal
I'm saying, one Caribbean, one Caribbean, one heart together in a changing world
One Caribbean, one Caribbean, one love, one heart, one soul reaching for a common goal
I say one love, one heart, one soul reaching for a common goal

Everybody hands across the water now!

[Un Caribe] One Caribbean people
[Un Caribe] One pride, one destiny
[Un corazon] Ah, coming together
[Un destino] Hands across the water
[Un Caribe] One flag on the island
[Un Caribe] Everybody come on now
[Un corazon] One spirit
[Un destino] One love, one love, one destiny, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Un Caribe] Hands across the water children, hands across the water children
[Un Caribe] Hands across the water children, hands across the water children
[Un corazon] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Un destino] Oh oh, one Caribbean people
[Un Caribe] Hands across the water now
[Un Caribe] Hands across the sea
[Un corazon] One flag on the island
[Un destino] Oh, one destiny
[Un Caribe] One love, one heart, one soul, one spirit
[Un Caribe] One destiny, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Un corazon] I say we're coming together
[Un destino] We're coming together, we're coming together now.

Hands across the water, children.
Hands across the water, children.
Hear the trumpet call, hear the trumpet call
We breaking down the walls just like the walls of Jericho
Listen to the trumpet call, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everybody sing...

[Un Caribe] One Caribbean people
[Un Caribe] One Caribbean people... yeah
[Un corazon] One heart, one heart
[Un destino] One destiny... yeah, yeah, yeah
[Un Caribe] One Caribbean people
[Un Caribe] One Caribbean soul
[Un corazon] One heart, one heart, one heart
[Un destino] One destiny, ah, come together now

[Un Caribe] Come, come, come together now
[Un Caribe] Come children, come, come, come, come together now.....

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