Independence [Song]

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INDEPENDENCE
By Lord Bryner

People only talking but they really don't know
What's the proper meaning for Trinidad and Tobago
Cipriani start the ball rolling now the Doctor doing the bowling
So leh we help Uncle Eric to perform a real hat trick.

Because it is your land just as well as my land
This is your place and also it's my place
So let we put our heads together and live like one happy family
Democratically, educationally, we'll be independently.

Thirty-first of August, the year 1962
Will go down in history for every one of you
Forget racialism and nationalism
Let discipline, production and tolerance
Guide us to Independence.

Because it is your land just as well as my land
This is your place and also it's my place
So let we put our heads together and live like one happy family
Democratically, educationally, we'll live independently.

Conscientiously and constitutionally
Forget all this lousy rumour about racial equality
If you are an East Indian and you want to be an African
Just shave your head clean like me,
Then they can't prove your nationality.

Because it is your land just as well as my land
This is your place and also it's my place
So leh we put our heads together and live like one happy family
Democratically, educationally, we'll live independently.

A next thing again I want you to know
I must tell you plain, whether your status is high or low
The time has come at last and there's no more colonial rule, I believe
So together we will aspire, together we will achieve.

Because it is your land just as well as my land
This is your place and also it's my place
So leh we put our heads together and live like one happy family
Democratically, educationally, we'll live independently.

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, Lord Bryner! A message as appropriate today as it was then, back in 1962.

"Because it is your land just as well as my land
This is your place and also it's my place
So leh we put our heads together and live like one happy family
Democratically, educationally, we'll live independently."

"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