For Our Former PM, Peace And Love As You Recover.

DONA LA PACE

Dona la pace, dona la pace ai nostri cuori, oh Signore!
Dona la pace, dona la pace ai nostri cuori, oh Signore!
Resta qui, insieme a noi, resta qui, insieme a noi.
E la pace regnerà.

Give peace, give peace to our hearts, O Lord!
Give peace, give peace to our hearts, O Lord!
Stay here with us, stay here with us.
And peace will reign.

Dona l'amore, dona l'amore, ai nostri cuori, oh Signore!
Dona l'amore, dona l'amore, ai nostri cuori, oh Signore!
Resta qui, insieme a noi, resta qui, insieme a noi.
E l'amore regnerà.

Give love, give love to our hearts, O Lord!
Give love, give love to our hearts, O Lord!
Stay here with us, stay here with us.
And love will reign.

Dona la pace, dona la pace al mondo intero, oh Signore!
Dona la pace, dona la pace al mondo intero, oh Signore!
Resta qui, insieme a noi, resta qui, insieme a noi.
E la pace regnerà.

Give peace, give peace to the whole world, oh Lord!
Give peace, give peace to the whole world, oh Lord!
Stay here with us, stay here with us.
And peace will reign.

Dona l'amore, dona l'amore al mondo intero, oh Signore!
Dona l'amore, dona l'amore al mondo intero, oh Signore!
Resta qui, insieme a noi, resta qui, insieme a noi.
E l'amore regnerà.
Resta qui, insieme a noi, resta qui, insieme a noi.
E l'amore regnerà.

Give love, give love to the whole world, oh Lord!
Give love, give love to the whole world, oh Lord!
Stay here with us, stay here with us.
And love will reign.
Stay here with us, stay here with us.
And love will reign.
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"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

Good Driving [Song]

Uploaded by Clynton Mann
GOOD DRIVING
By Luta

They say he was too vindictive and wicked, he had vengeance against Trini
Abu Bakr should kill him, July 1990
Only thinking about Tobago, he ent deserve to be alive
So we kick him out and tell him go, singing the driver can't drive.

But now, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
The driver renovate the kitchen for 1.6 million
Advertise the face on TV for only 400 grand.
Boy, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
You better take your separation and don't call it retrenchment
It's rightsizing operation from the people's government.
I tell you, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

The dragon spitting fire, look how them five little children drown
Explosion in Camp Omega, so the driver took the dragon down
But then thirteen people dead in St. Ann's, up to now I still feeling shame
After thorough investigations, they can't even find a dove to blame.

Fus the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
Eric Williams died since '81, and this everybody know
Yet the driver say he just holding on and is Eric running the show.
I tell you, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
A fella borrowed 12 million dollars, with bad planning, he lost everything
But the driver take him and make him Minister of Planning
The driver good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

I am not so stupid to oppose them, this is PNM country
Robinson was the problem; praise God we get rid of he
Since we send him back to Castara, poor people ent poor again
No more armed robberies and murder, no more vagrants in Port of Spain.

That's because the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
And there was no devaluation, the dollar just float in town
That's the way to fight inflation, this year food price coming down.
Why? The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
You paying too much tax already and this is a caring government
So the exorbitant transfer fee is not a tax, that's a punishment.
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

Don't ever think the driver is stupid because he ent explain yet
Why he think it is valid to put more Indians in Cabinet
And when it comes to making Budget, what an outstanding human being
Oil is thirteen dollars on the market but he sure we go get nineteen.

The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
The driver went and tell Bill Clinton, he want to catch some drug traffickers
But if he ent get assistance, all ah we go be drug pushers
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
They used to call Eric "deafy", Robinson, they say was heartless
I and all thought Chambers duncee but this fella is the best.
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

The driver driving goooood, the country moving smooooth
The driver driving goooood, the country moving smooooth...

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, Luta.

"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

They Looking For Juliana, Juliana Ent Dey....

People, if I had the skills to write fiction, I'd be a millionaire. T&T is the muse that never quits. Real life is often stranger than fiction in this country so you know that our stories are guaranteed to be cliff hangers. Just take out your notepad (electronic or paper) and scan the daily newspapers with the intention to plunder. Whatever your genre, the material is all there:- crime, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror, romance, detective, action-adventure...not so sure about Westerns, but you get my point.

I am imagining you now beginning to write a novel about the amazing life and times of a globetrotting prophetess, who consorted with powers and principalities and at whose command, land and money would materialise out of thin air to construct marvellous structures - all to the glory of God. So mesmerising were her flashing smiles and incomparable spirituality that she could convince architects to draw plans for her projects at no cost. I have yet to perfect this skill but when I do, I am going to also have to work on summoning the departed because I'd want only the best - John Newel Lewis, to design my ajoupa...for FREE!

Apparently, our Juliana was not selfish with her abilities and under her supervision she allowed the former Prime Minister to experience a taste of what the occult sciences could offer. He, with the same charitable architect as a witness, was empowered to change like a lagahoo from Prime Minister to Project Manager and back again to Prime Minister. The transmogrification was so awesome that the immensity of what had transpired rendered the architect mute and seriously incapacitated for weeks....

See what I mean? Even with the aid of mind-altering drugs, you couldn't hope to come up with this on your own.

Anyway the last reports revealed that the prophetess had not fled to Africa but had been right here in Trinidad all along, having chosen a remote rural area in which to hold out for God's impartial judgment rather than facing the hasty accusations and conclusions of mortals.

Juliana, I promise you that I am not being facetious when I tell you that you are NOW in the first and last church that was ever commissioned and consecrated by God - Nature. I wish that when the dust settles, you will be left in peace there. Maybe your intentions were good ones but, trust me, your God does not want any more cold monuments built in His name. Plant bodi instead and watch them grow and feel His spirit around you. Don't be afraid to come out and clear the air. Whatever you got from that government was GIVEN to you. You didn't hold any gun, spiritual or otherwise, to anyone's head so what do you have to hide?

Based on "Jericho" by Lord Kitchener

I hear dey looking for me
So I come down from the jungle
They combing the whole country
Talking 'bout dem people
I saving dem the trouble
Of climbing mountains and tumbling down
Please do me a favour and tell dem
Juliana come to town.

They looking for Juliana
Juliana ent dey
They look up Lalaja
Julie slips away....

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Pena spotted in Lalaja. By Shaliza Hassanali and Michelle Loubon | Trinidad and Tobago Guardian | 25 Jul 2010
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"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