Sung by Déplé [1986]
Your vote will decide our destiny
Your vote will decide what you are to be
Your vote can foretell our country's fate
Go and use it well before it's too late.
If it is that who you vote in fail beyond a doubt
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is they proving to be only full ah mouth
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is the time is now that change should come about
Just as how you vote dem in, vote dem out.
Register and [Vote dem out!]
If dey duncey [Vote dem out!]
Stain your finger and [Vote dem out!]
Show dem no mercy [Vote dem out!]
Vote dem out with total scorn and utter disdain
Let's put our country together again
Vote dem out of power, terminate their reign
Let's put our country together again.
If for thirty years you voting dem in
And is only tears as soon as they win
They give you big words and enslave your souls
Promising you roads and giving potholes.
If they are the reason why the economy won't sprout
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is dey passing laws that dem alone can flout
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is dey building eyesores, east, west, north and south
The same way you vote dem in, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
Register and [Vote dem out!]
Totally [Vote dem out!]
Stain your finger and [Vote dem out!]
Rescue the country [Vote dem out!]
Vote dem out with tempo, dey have we in pain
Let's put our country together again
Vote dem out with calypso and joyous refrain
Let's put our country together again.
If their policy is a fallacy
Their bureaucracy, a catastrophe
If they cannot cope and you see it so
Then your only hope is for them to go.
If it is fabrication, these statements that they spout
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is that frustration does make you want to shout
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
Before they misuse out, thief out, sell out and digs out
If is you who vote dem in, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
Register and [Vote dem out!]
All ah dem [Vote dem out!]
Stain yuh finger and [Vote dem out!]
Dem and dey system [Vote dem out!]
Vote dem out in Scarborough and in Port of Spain
Let's put our country together again
Vote dem out in Cumuto and in La Romain
Let's put our country together again.
People must come first, citizens by right
None ah we are worse - yellow, black or white
Food, shelter and clothes, free movement and speech
A garden that grows and one love for each.
If it is that injustice is what they always show
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is that avarice is all they seem to know
When you voting, vote dem out [Vote dem out!]
If it is their politics is just a pappy show
When elections day come, all bandits must go.
Register and [Vote dem out!]
If dey duncey [Vote dem out!]
Stain yuh finger and [Vote dem out!]
Show dem no mercy [Vote dem out!]
Vote dem out with total scorn and utter disdain
Let's put our country together again
Vote dem out of power, terminate their reign
Let's put our country together again.
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! ..............................................................................................................................
A Note From The Gull
I have said on this blog that I do not support any political party in my homeland and that remains the truth. But there was one time, and one alone, when I allowed my very young heart to be swept along on a tide of unfettered optimism, the likes of which I have never again experienced...not even after May 24 2010, when we felt that we had no choice but to cut off our noses to spite a political face that, to put it kindly, had become as impassive and as dumb as a bag of rocks.
That night back in December of 1986, a group of us sailed on a natural high towards party headquarters. We shared the Churchill–Roosevelt Highway with other celebrants exuberantly exchanging horn blasts and streaming the party's flags in the night air above our cars. "One Love!" and the halcyon days of youth.
But we know how that ended. So there is a reason, apart from increasing wariness, lessening vigour and distance from my homeland, why I do not expect to ever experience such optimism. I am just happy tonight for those who are happy and who feel that this outcome is best for their constituency and by extension, the country. There are still many doubts but it will certainly be interesting to see how things unfold.
We vote parties out to teach them lessons that they will never learn because we ourselves do not learn. It is from us that our political parties and politicians spring.
"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
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