Song For The People [Song]

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SONG FOR THE PEOPLE
By Soca Elvis [2012]

Fifty years old, do we laugh or just cry
Do we sit down and ponder or reach for the sky?
We have achieved so we must celebrate
Raise your hands, people, if you think we great.

Jubilation, celebration, Trinidadian and Tobago
Raise your hand now, celebration, Trinidadian, Tobagonian.

Raise your hand now, people, raise your hand now, people
Wey yoy, wey yoy, wey yoy.

These fifty years, when people look back
Some saw the fall of the Union Jack
The rising of the Red, White and Black
The leaders saying, "No turning back."

'Cause we fifty years old, do we laugh or just cry
Do we sit down and ponder or reach for the sky?
We have achieved so we must celebrate
Raise your hands people if you think we great.

Jubilation, celebration, Trinidadian and Tobago
Raise your hand now, celebration, Trinidadian, Tobagonian.

We've built our land but problems are clear
Work to be done, let's shoulder the wheel
We got to face tomorrow, no fear
Come join with me and show how you feel.

'Cause we fifty years old, do we laugh or just cry
Do we sit down and ponder or reach for the sky?
We have achieved so we must celebrate
Raise your hands people if you think we great.

Jubilation, celebration, Trinidadian and Tobago
Raise your hand now, celebration, Trinidadian, Tobagonian.

We started out with two radio stations
Now it's over twenty, you see
Now the world is listening to my rendition
The world could celebrate this with me

'Cause we fifty years old, do we laugh or just cry
Do we sit down and ponder or reach for the sky?
We have achieved so we must celebrate
Raise your hands people if you think we great.

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 y0u, Soca Elvis.

"We've built our land but problems are clear
Work to be done, let's shoulder the wheel
We got to face tomorrow, no fear
Come join with me and show how you feel."

"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