Animal beauty competition, you go hear confusion
Jackass and Tiger, Goat, Pig and Lion, listen to confusion
Who tell them to let Monkey judge?
Monkey have an old personal grudge
From since in the days they make him bring water as the ugliest man,
Since then Monkey bitter.
So he throw out Peacock, he say he too vain
And disqualified Lion with his long flowing mane
But he watching at Donkey in one particular spot
"Ladies and Gentlemen," Monkey say, "Look at beauty this fella got!"
He give Donkey first, second and third and the judge tell Lion flat,
"Hmm, if you was the king of the beasts, you would be toting that!"
Silence, the whole place get silent, Hog watching Elephant
Spellbound, everybody spellbound, all man start to look 'round
Tiger say, "You rude and you fast!What beauty you see in Jackass?
You sit down with a wicked grin on your face
How the hell you could give Donkey all three place?""
But he throw 'way Peacock, he say he too vain
And disqualified Lion with his long flowing mane
Hmmn, but he watching at Donkey in one particular spot
"Ladies and Gentlemen," Monkey say, "Look at beauty this fella got!"
He give Donkey first, second and third and then he tell Lion flat,
"Hah,if you was the king of the beasts, you would be toting that!"
"Robbery!" Crapaud say, "You rob me! I've dressed up so lovely."
"Somebody should shoot you, come in here with a corkscrew."
Is now common Dog start to bark, call Monkey a sex maniac
Pig say, "If is sex, I must be in line. Donkey have the goods but donkey can't wine."
So he throw out Peacock, he say he too vain
And disqualified Lion with his long flowing mane
But he watching at Donkey in one particular spot
"Ladies and Gentlemen," Monkey say, "Look at beauty this fella got!"
He give Donkey first, second and third and then he tell Lion flat,
"If you was the king of the beasts, you would be toting that!"
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, Mighty Sparrow.
"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.
Big, big trouble come hear it, it ent me and I 'fraid
A male Donkey fo' day morning, running wild in Cascade
An Englishman was then passing, he say, "Why this Donkey should roam?"
"Poor animal starving." so he decided to take it home.
The Donkey bawl...
"Take me back where you find me, I'm sorry, Mister Honkey I didn't ask anybody for sympathy, you better make your son take me I don't want no confusion, so help me, is that I say The same place you find me, take me right back down dey!"
The Englishman start to tremble, the man frighten for so
To hear a Donkey talking English is no joke, as you know
So he sneak inside of his parlour to make a telephone call
He see the Donkey changing colour and growing tall, tall, tall,
And bawling..
"Take me back where you find me, I'm sorry, Mister Honkey I didn't ask anybody for sympathy, you better make your son take me I don't want no confusion, so help me, is that I say The same place you find me, take me right back down dey!"
More trouble for honkey, the man out of his mind
When he see a big, fat Hen with Chicken running behind
So he run and open the back door, attempting to jump the wall
In the dark, he hear the voice of the Donkey, "Mister, mind you fall!"
"Take me back where you find me, I'm sorry, Mister Honkey I didn't ask anybody for sympathy, you better make your son take me I don't want no confusion, so help me, is that I say The same place you find me, take me right back down dey!"
Poor Englishman bawling, "No! Anything else instead!"
When the Donkey tell him, "Take off your clothes and lie down in bed."
So he turn and said to the Donkey, "Please tell me, do I have to?"
The Donkey say, "Doh worry, I coming to lie with you."
"Take me back where you find me, I'm sorry, Mister Honkey I didn't ask anybody for sympathy, you better make your son take me I don't want no confusion so help me, is that I say The same place you find me, take me right back down dey!"
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, Lord Kitchener.
"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.
Hold him Joe, hold him Joe!
Hold him Joe but don't let him go!
Hold him Joe, I said, hold him Joe!
Hold him Joe but don't let him go!
Mih donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
Better hide your daughter [Hold him, Joe]
When the donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
He went 'round the corner. [Hold him, Joe]
When he's on a journey, he does go straight
You can bet your life, he's a heavyweight
This donkey of mine, he don't like no weight
When you put him in the cart, he never walk ---------.
When he want his water [Hold him, Joe]
When mih donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
You better hide your daughter [Hold him, Joe]
Oh, when mih donkey want water. [Hold him, Joe]
The whole thing, friends, is through jealousy
They want to take mih donkey from me
They want to put my donkey in pound for spite
Just because they know my donkey can fight.
When he want his water [Hold him, Joe]
Mih donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
You better hide your daughter [Hold him, Joe]
When mih donkey want water. [Hold him, Joe]
Some people say that my donkey bad
Because he came from Trinidad
This donkey of mine, he wouldn't work at all
All he does is break the boards out the stall.
When he want his water [Hold him, Joe]
You better hide your daughter [Hold him, Joe]
Oh, when the donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
Oh, when mih donkey is thirsty [Hold him, Joe]
Yes, mih donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
When the donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
Oh yes, the donkey is thirsty [Hold him, Joe]
When mih donkey want water [Hold him, Joe]
You better hide your daughter [Hold him, Joe]
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, MacBeth the Great.
"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.
DONKEY DAYS
By Shadow
Album: Shadow Enchanted, T&T, 1995
Back in the days of the pitch oil lamp
When girl was darling, boy was scamp
Stealing mangoes in the dark
The black cock crow and the bulldog bark
Those were the days of the donkey cart
The donkey story breaks my heart
Donkey working all day long
A donkey's work was never done
You think it easy for a poor donkey
To be transport for a family?
He got to tote up the mango
He got to tote up the cocoa
He got to tote up the dry wood
He got to tote up the green wood.
And then big belly man want to jump on his back
Fat belly man want to jump on his back
Thin belly man want to jump on his back
All dem wind belly man want to jump on his back.
Donkey had no rest time, no no, still after sunset time
As soon as he wake up, he had no time for makeup
Because fat bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Black bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Thin bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Wind bumsee boy want to go for a ride
On the poor little donkey [they want a ride]
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
I sorry for the donkey [they want a ride]
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Those were the days of the La Diablesse
The pretty, pretty girl with the long, long dress
She would watch you in your eyes
She would have you hypnotise
Take you down to a lonely place
Show you she cow foot, skin up she face
The only escape for you got to be a miracle.
Donkey never send you to look for girl
Donkey got to come to your funeral
He got to tote up your coffin
All your big belly soften
All your muddy-up sliders
Plus a lot of joy riders
Big belly man want to jump on his back
All dem fat belly man want to jump on his back
Thin belly man want to jump on his back
A lot of wind belly man want to jump on his back.
Donkey had no rest time, no no, still after sunset time
As soon as he wake up, he had no time for makeup
Because fat bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Black bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Thin bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Wind bumsee boy want to go for a ride.
Poor little donkey [they want a ride]
Pretty little donkey [they want a ride]
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All dem fat bumsee boy
All dem black bumsee boy
All dem thin bumsee boy
All dem wind bumsee boy [they want a ride]
Those were the days of the Jumbie man
They used to come back from down Jumbie land
Face to face with your cousin, Joe
You went to his funeral a long time ago
He stretch out his hand to give you a shake
Is another corner you looking to take
You run so fast, you fall in the grass
More work for the poor jackass.
He got to tote up your body
And fus your big belly heavy
Plus your muddy-up sliders
Plus a lot of joy riders
Big belly man want to jump on his back
Fat belly man want to jump on his back
Thin belly man want to jump on his back
Wind belly man want to jump on his back
Donkey had no rest time, no no, still after sunset time
As soon as he wake up, he had no time for makeup
Because fat bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Black bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Thin bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Wind bumsee boy want to go for a ride
Poor little donkey [they want a ride]
Yeah, yeah, yeah [they want a ride]
All dem fat bumsee boy
All dem black bumsee boy
All dem thin bumsee boy
All dem wind bumsee boy [they want a ride]
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey, yeah, yeah
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey, yeah, yeah
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey
All dem fat bumsee boy [they want a ride]
All dem black bumsee boy [they want a ride]
All dem thin bumsee boy [they want a ride]
All dem wind bumsee boy [they want a ride]
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey, yeah yeah
Gimme me a ride on yuh donkey
Poor little donkey, yeah [they want a ride]
Poor little donkey [they want a ride]
All dem fat bumsee boy
All dem black bumsee boy...
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!
These days I cannot seem to get enough of Shadow's "Donkey Days". This world seems to be roiling with a deep unease manifesting in catastrophes, wars and rumours of wars, the "godly" caught left, right and centre with their pants around their ungodly ankles, politicians possessed by a determination to prove to all (who are paying attention) that they are in fact even more ignorant and destructive than we imagined them to be. So maybe "Donkey Days" sums it all up for me. The poor little donkey represents Gaia - groaning creation patiently suffering the unreasonable demands and unthinking assaults we've been increasingly piling on its back. The donkey can also represent all the long suffering citizens of this country and of this world who take and take and take. I've heard about the camel's back and the straw that broke it, but what will it take for the donkey to say, "No more!" So the headphones hug my ears and the volume is at maximum as I listen to "Donkey Days" over and over and over... It is not escapism, I don't think. It is my way of channeling my reflections while reducing the cacophony around me to one unifying, hypnotic rhythm. Everything is connected. I will say again and again that The Shadow's work is pure genius.
"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.
Big animal sports up at the Savannah, they invited Bomber
Animal sports up at the Savannah, they invited Bomber
So many events was on the program, I say, "Today is jam session."
But is one thing I can't forget, records tumble and big upset.
Because Donkey beat them in throwing the javelin, two hundred point nine
But when it come to big time cycling, Hog leave them behind
In pole vault and sprinting, Horse beat them by far
But Dog is a giant, he make them look small pulling tug o' war.
The Grandstand pack up with big time officials wearing their initials
R-A-T, A-N-T and F-L-Y, them was rating high
Fowl and Cockroach get in bacchanal and Cockroach injury prove fatal
Bachac police surround the place and they charge the Fowl with a murder case.
Just because Donkey beat them in throwing the discus, but that wasn't all
When it came to Devil take the Hindmost, Cat make them look small
In long, broad and high jumping, Donkey was the star
Still Dog was the giant, he make them look small pulling tug o' war.
If you hear the noise them animal making, like the whole world shaking
Mule and Donkey start to kick one another, Jackass bawling, "Murder!"
Fly start heckling a hairy Spider, calling him "long leg" and "body snatcher"
Corbeau say, "They playing too rough. I don't get involved in such rotten stuff."
Just because Donkey beat them so bad in pole vaulting, if you see the pole!
Spider took a chance in match sprinting, foot break in a hole
In hop, skip and jumping, Crapaud was the star
Still Dog was the giant, he make them look small pulling tug o' war.
When the time was ripe for prize distribution, if you hear confusion
Goat decide to protest the meeting, so Sheep started bleating
Goat was the MC for the evening, and Sheep, the chief judge presiding
So the MC jump up and say, "Dog is the champion athlete today!"
Just because Donkey beat them in throwing the javelin, two hundred point nine
But when it come to big time cycling, Hog leave them behind
In pole vault and sprinting, Horse beat them by far
But Dog remain the giant, he make them look small pulling tug o' war.
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, Mighty Bomber.
"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.
A sky party was given deliberately
To kill cat, birds' biggest enemy
All the birds in the town, they all agree
Lend him some feathers, let him fly to the journey
But when they reach to a certain height
Poor cat nearly faint with fright
Corbeau say, "I ent want no row. Cat, we want the thing that we lend you now!"
Meow!!
Cat say, "I ent think you acting fair."
Fowl say, "It ent me invite you here."
Goose and duck start to laugh, "Quack-quack-quack!"
"We want all we feathers back!"
Parrot start to talk in parable
Making cat feel more miserable
"Some people really give me the headache They like to give but to receive, they cannot take."
Cat say, "If is me you mean, Mister Parrot, you ent got to rub it in."
Parrot say, "I done talk mih thing, And who the cap fit, they could draw the string."
Meow!!
Cat say, "I ent think you acting fair."
Fowl say, "It ent me invite you here."
Goose and duck start to laugh, "Quack-quack-quack!"
"We want all we feathers back!"
Bluebird vex and talking in a rage,
"Cat will attack you even when you in your cage If you fly 'round a house for piece of bread Cat waiting like a shark to snatch your head, He eat we young and he suck we egg No use he grumble, no use he beg. We go make him an example And give him a taste of his own medicine."
Meow!!!
Cat say, "I ent think you acting fair."
Fowl say, "It ent me invite you here."
Goose and duck start to laugh, "Quack-quack-quack!"
"We want all we feathers back!"
Doctor bird say, "Is my sweet ambition To pass sentence on cat, that hooligan. We fool you with a bogus sky party You didn't know that this was your destiny. Gimme them feathers immediately And is up to you with your return journey You could jump if you is expert But remember you is ten thousand miles from earth!"
Meow!!!
Cat say, "I ent think you acting fair."
Fowl say, "It ent me invite you here."
Goose and duck start to laugh, "Quack-quack-quack!"
"We want all we feathers back!"
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, Lord Kitchener.
"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.
Big joke you'll hear, just take it cool
This happen with the cobo and a mule [Cobo is Trinispeak for corbeau]
Big joke you'll hear, just take it cool
This happen with the cobo and a mule
The mule feel tired so he lie down Cobo think he dead, he fly down on the ground
Hungry like fire, ah fus he want to eat
Chook he head by the tail to test the meat.
Chorus:
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind.
Standing by Cobo Town
When I saw that the mule was coming down
Top speed, the tail up in the air
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Well, I couldn't believe what I seeing
Behind the mule tail the cobo was flying
Friends, look I laugh, I nearly dead
Seeing the cobo and I cannot see the head.
Chorus:
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind.
The mule turn, he head for Frederick Street
Well, is inside a store he get defeat
They hold him, they band him up with twine
And all this time the cobo lock behind
Friends, Mister Fletcher start to bawl
"What is this inside my store at all? People breaking down my store to see
A cobo head, oh lord, inside a mule belly!"
Chorus:
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind
[Brigadip brigadip, the mule running]
As if he flying with the cobo lock behind.
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, Leon Roach for this rendition of Killer's disturbing/fascinating "Mule and Cobo". I have no idea how these calypsonians got their inspiration. I couldn't come up with this story in a million years. I am very familiar with corbeaux and I know that vultures in general begin their feasts at natural orifices and the softest parts of carcasses, which include the "nether regions". But how do you move from this knowledge to visualising a mule running for its life with a corbeau attached? I remain torn between feeling distressed for the poor mule and being amazed by the scene. Since I cannot be sure if the corbeau is there willingly or locked against his will in a sphincter clench, I don't know what to feel for the miserable bird.
"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.
REINCARNATION
Composed by Spoiler [Theophilus Phillip] (1953)
Performed by Lord Invader
Yes, I heard when you die after burial
You got to come back as some insect or animal
Yes, I heard when you die after burial
You got to come back as some insect or animal
Well if is so, I don’t want to be a monkey
Neither a sheep, a goat or donkey
My brother said he want to come back a hog
But not Invader, I want to be a bedbug.
Just because I want to bite them young ladies, partner
Like a hot dog or a hamburger
If you know you’re thin, don’t be in a fright
Is only big, fat women I want to bite.
"Now, what you want to be?" I ask Mr. Ross
He say he’ll ask the Devil to turn him a horse
I ask another fella they call Lawrence
He say he want to be a big black wood ant.
They too foolish. When you turn a horse
You got to carry people load, get licks from your boss
And like a wood ant, is old wood you have to eat
But as a bedbug, I'll be biting the human meat.
And that is why I want to bite them young ladies, partner
Like a hot dog or a hamburger
And if you know you’re thin, don’t be in a fright
Is only big, fat women I want to bite.
Now, I want you believe me, so help me bless
I’ll be a different kind of bedbug from all the rest
I ent biting no ordinary people
They got to be quite social and respectable
Such as female doctors and barristers
Duchesses, princesses with nice figures
And when ah bite them, I'm going 'bout and boast
And ah calling myself King Bedbug the First.
That's why I want to bite them young ladies, partner
Like a hot dog or a hamburger
If you know you’re thin, don’t be in a fright
Is only big fat women I want to bite.
I know how some husbands are fast and fresh
They will be waiting for this bedbug to bite their flesh
But I wouldn’t bite a man if they kill me dead
As long as the opposite sex on the bed
Biting a man, I might break my teeth
To a bedbug, men skin harder than concrete
And when a bug bite a man, the result is bad
Men foot have too much hairs and dey legs too hard.
That's why I want to bite them young ladies, partner
Like a hot dog or a hamburger
If you know you’re thin, don’t be in a fright
Is only big, fat women that I going to bite.
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, Spoiler and Lord Invader,
"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.
Lord, Please walk beside me through this day. Clear the heavy air with the lightness of Your Presence. Guide my hands and steady my heart that I may give comfort when I cannot give hope, that I may give relief when I do not have a cure, and that I may radiate Your healing peace when the limits of science, time, and the human body overwhelm us all. Amen
Source
Sáncte Míchael Archángele, defénde nos in proélio, cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium. Ímperet ílli Déus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis, Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo, divína virtúte, in inférnum detrúde. Ámen
