Bring It Back [Song]

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BRING IT BACK
By SKHI

Mister Skhi, I hear long time in T&T had plenty love.

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

"Progress" was the name of the song King Austin did sing
Like it wasn't too long ago
Well, as a small man all 'bout ten
Some things I remember from way back then
We used to really show more love for one another
Man, bring yuh bowl and pass for food later
Neighbour on mih house, just throw an eye
I going out the road just for a little while.
Look tief, look tief! is a neighbouhood alert
Somebody run quick, go and call Bert
Bert run out with a two by four, ready to attack
Each one help one, had one another back.

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Ent?

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

------------------------------ at one time wasn't king
A penny was a penny, and a shilling was a shilling
Yuh woman never wanted a man just for money
But a man with respect  and integrity
He used to have to meet the whole family
Before he could get a little taste of the cookie
So in terylene shirt and a ragga Levi
A real saga boy coulda catch she eye
But if she brother was a bad john from the area
Doh hurt she at all or is licks like fire
With some big stone or a cutlass
It wasn't gunshot but hard cuff in yuh rass.

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Jam mih horn!

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

Bring it back, bring it back. Bring back the love, bring back the hope here
Bring it back, bring it back. Bring back the unity, bring back the unity here
Bring it back, bring it back....

Patience is what people had
Work hard for what they want, take the time they would have
Well, from a young boy I used to see real honest men like mih Grandpa B
Children had nuff respect for their elders
Doh play yuh rude or is punishment for you
And thing was cheaper back then to survive
A bag of cement was only 12.95
Yes, money had value and was value for your money
A cold Carib for only 3.50
Right there in the 80's was -------------------
And that is the way that things used to be.

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Fuh real!

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

Fête, we always did like but back in dem days man hardly went to fight
Well, it was brass band that had the power
Roy Cape, All Stars -------------------
Band like Charlie's Roots, Chandelier and Kalyan
Used to have the crowd eating outta dey hand
In a kaiso tent you want to hear Sparrow, Lord Kitchener, Stalin and Shadow
Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more tempo
Calypso Rose is the queen of the show
Johnny King wet dem down straight from Tobago
And Super Blue still had it. Ent? Play yuh doh know!

Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again
Is a shame how we doh live dem way again
Is a shame, must bring back dem vibes again. Gimme horn!

Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back.

[Bring it back, bring it back] Leh we bring back more love in T&T.
[Bring it back, bring it back] Come, my people, leh we have more unity,
[Bring it back, bring it back] The days of less crime in this country.
[Bring it back, bring it back] Say, bring back the love, bring back the love now,
Bring back the love now!

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

Thank you, Skhi.  

"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