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NANCY STORY TIME
By Gene Lawrence
'Nancy story time when moon shine
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine
Tanty swear she see shadows under the mango tree
------- was looking like one, oh lord, what could it be?
Some say man, some say woman, some say not human
And then the boy push the girl back
"You see dat? You see dat? You see dat?!" Ha ha ha-ha-ha!
The night sweet with sounds of voices young and old
Children playing hide and seek, waiting for stories to be told
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine.
The village on a dark night, so quiet you could hear
Whispering of the night creatures, their music fills the air
And no one is bold enough to go outside to see
If the noise that they hearing
Is just the wind whistling in the tree. Ha ha ha-ha-ha!
The night sweet with sounds of voices young and old
Children playing hide and seek, waiting for stories to be told
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine.
Ha ha ha-ha-ha!
The night sweet with sounds of voices young and old
Children playing hide and seek waiting for stories to be told
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine.
When moon bright, the place transform like night become the day
Cards and rum, mauvais langue talk sharing while children play
Lovers hide behind the tree to escape Tanty
The village people lucky that this moon
Wouldn't talk what it see. Ha ha ha-ha-ha!
The night sweet with sounds of voices young and old
Children playing hide and seek waiting for stories to be told
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine
Is 'Nancy story time when moon shine.
'Nancy story time, 'Nancy story time
'Nancy story time, 'Nancy story time
'Nancy story time, 'Nancy story time
'Nancy story time, 'Nancy story time...
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, Gene Lawrence!
"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
4 comments:
Thanks for this - Nice evocation of the times before people sat in front of TV having their heads filled mostly with stuff detrimental to them.
When my son was small, he used to love an Anancy story read to him every night before sleeping.
Kitabwalli,
Thanks for visiting and graciously leaving a comment. Glad you enjoyed the song. I found it recently and welcomed it as a break from all the heaviness around us today.
Your son was lucky. I still remember us as children some nights snuggling along the length of our father's body as he lay in bed preparing to start one of his stories. He used to accompany these stories with songs. I can still remember the haunting melodies.
Now the research is showing that storytelling helps children to enhance their language skills. Maybe you didn't know it then but you were actually supporting your son's early literacy development, not to mention encouraging bonding and making some beautiful memories. Maybe this is why I turn to the television mainly for documentaries. They are the nearest thing to being told a story and there is the bonus of actually learning something.
Blessing to you and yours.
Thanks very much for your reply. Indeed, my son could argue (as an old expression puts it) 'like a Philadelphia lawyer'.
I still have those books including Philip Sherlock's 'West Indian Folk Tales', 'The Iguana's Tail', and 'Anansi the Spider Man'.
All the best to you and yours for the coming year.
Dear Kitabwalli,
I appreciate the dialogue with you and welcome your comments. All the very best also to you and yours for the rest of the year and in the New Year!
Blessings
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