Home, Sweet, Home [Song]

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HOME, SWEET, HOME
By Brigo
Arranged by Leston Paul
Album: "Home sweet home" EP | T&T 1983

In a old and young party in Tunapuna
Three old lady came and said to me
"Tell young people Granny say, tell young people Granny say,
They got to pay for thing they throw away."
They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home.
They throw 'way we --------- for street light
They throw 'way we home, sweet home.
They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home
They throw 'way we grater for Osterizer
They throw 'way we home, sweet home.

Granny stamp she foot and then she told me,
"Young people don't care 'bout times they are going through.
Suppose Mister T&TEC, to run the current he forget
Tell me what young people going to do?"

They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home.
They throw 'way pound plantain, saltfish and corn dumpling
They throw 'way we home, sweet home.
They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home
For a stove on Charlotte, they throw 'way dey coalpot
They throw 'way we home, sweet home.

After finish dancing couple sets with Granny
She turn around and then said to me,
"Suppose Mister Texaco ---------------
Is then all young people going to pay."

They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home.
They throw 'way ---------, ---------
They throw 'way we home, sweet home
They throw way we lamp dey , throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home
They throw 'way the pastelle, ---------------------
They throw 'way we home, sweet home.

They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey
Throw away we home, sweet home.

Yes, they throw away the mortar
[They throw 'way we home, sweet home]
Throw away the pestle
[They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey]
[Throw away we home, sweet home.]
Throw 'way the corn
[They throw 'way we home, sweet home]
Throw 'way the farine and the cassava bread
Throw 'way the dirt oven in the yard
They throw 'way the smoke fish
[They throw way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey]
[Throw away we home, sweet home.]
Throw 'way the fire on top and fire below bake
[They throw 'way we home, sweet home]

[They throw 'way we lamp dey, throw away we lamp dey]
[Throw away we home, sweet home.]
They throw way the creole fowl, throw way the gristle fowl
And when -----------------------------
----------------used to go and dig it out
[They throw 'way we home, sweet home]
Throw 'way de baby and -------------------

Any help with the lyrics would be appreciated.

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, Brigo! This song is about progress and what is surrendered in the name of it. It is not just about the nostalgia of the old for a way of life that was simpler and where people got by with less. It is also a concern about a loss of self-reliance. Will we survive if all the modern conveniences were to be removed from our lives? I think we will. People are resilient. People are wired to survive so I am not too worried. I see only silver linings in such a situation. I think that when all the clutter of "civilization" is removed, human beings will see more clearly what the really important things in life are. People will realise that much of what is called "development" involves surrender of our essential selves and our freedom as beings originally created to live at one with Nature. As Austin sang, the price of "progress" is high.

And I have to say that paime made with homemade corn meal is the best!

"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