Picong Duel [Song]

Uploaded by Glenroy Joseph
PICONG DUEL
Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody

Mighty Sparrow:
Well Melody, come close to me
I will tell you plain and candidly
Don't stop back and smile
Because you have a face like a crocodile!

Lord Melody:
Sparrow, you shouldn't tell me that at all
I mind you when you was small
Many of the nights I used to mash your head
In crossing to go on yuh mother... babadap, babadap!

Mighty Sparrow:
I know you think you are looking sweet
Posing here in you old false teeth
Is a lucky thing your uncle kick out
For you to get the false teeth to put in your mouth!

Lord Melody:
That is all you can say
In every angle and every way?
But the way how you watching at me
I go buss a right hook in your belly!

Mighty Sparrow:
It look as if you want trouble here tonight
Allyuh always looking for fight
I'll tell you this candidly
That is why the jail never empty!

Lord Melody:
You know that I'll be proud and glad
If Sampson and Delilah come back to Trinidad
But when they come, I wouldn't go in the theatre
Because look the jawbone of the ass right here!

Mighty Sparrow:
Well, ladies and gents, to tell you this I'm sure
When the circus was here they had a big uproar
Walking hand in hand, the female chimpanzee
Take Mello for she man!

Lord Melody:
Sparrow, that is a mistake
And in my opinion you give me a headache
This is what I'm forced to say
Is the same mistake you going to make today!

Mighty Sparrow:
Well Melody, you have me in a rage
Wining up on the stage
You feel you are looking cute
But when you finish, take off the dead man suit!

Lord Melody:
You shouldn't tell me that
This is what I am compelled to tell you flat
I hope you doesn't say that I am crack
In a while I'll be wining behind yuh back!

Mighty Sparrow:
Well believe, don't touch mih flesh
I wouldn't say you fresh
Back to back, belly to belly
And I think you are slack!

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 Melody and 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.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

My Intention Is War [Song]

Uploaded by oldmanmorgan
MY INTENTION IS WAR
Lord Invader and Dictator

Lord Invader:
Yes, my mother dead and my father disown me. What am I to do?
My mother died and my father disown me. What am I to do?
I am living in this world, I ain't got nobody
Not a brother, sister, nor cousin family
War and rebellion when I meet calypsonian
My intention is war!

Dictator, you insolent boobie, delirious mule
Audacious slum monger, you're out of rule
Your abnormal expressions worth no while hearing
Descend at once, Dictator, and stop your sneering
You gabilous squabbler, illiterate ape
Now you are in a terrible scrape, Dictator,
You resemble Manuel Gogo - a fowl thief from Tobago
My intention is war!

Mighty Dictator:
Now Lord Invader, why you pick on me?
Remember that I was near your family
Take it from me in calypso
Remember me once in San Fernando
Now believe I can give you the score
Remember, you were sleeping on the floor
I used to mash your head going to sleep on my bed
My intention is war!

Lord Invader:
Now calypso singing is such a technical thing
It was not made for one and every to sing
How by the heavens can this songster win?
Except by necromancy - that is a sin
My head is like a book that is well compact
My tongue like a gun that never yet snap
And I'm sorry for Dictator if he molest with Invader
My intention is war!

Mighty Dictator:
Now Lord Invader, fighting makes no sense
Why not say something of eloquence?
Talk about the boys playing the music
And with that, please do not do any trick
Remember that I am a Lord
And on the bass, we have Mr. Ford
The Duke Of Iron of calypso
The master playing the piano.

Lord Invader:
Now Dictator, I want to prove you're a calypsonian
To sing this verse I give you satisfaction
Here the gentleman there, he's sitting up there
Sitting there, without any fear
Rhyme a verse extemporaneously
As to prove your singing ability
And if you give me satisfaction
You're known as the champion
My intention is war!

Mighty Dictator:
To sing on the gentleman, I'll take the chance
He's my friend, his name is Lawrence
He's a very great guitar player
And you can take this tip from the Dictator
On him I have to make no attack
He is sitting there all dressed in black
And I'll tell you why, he's a chap
He's wearing a red tie
My intention is war!

Lord Invader:
I think we goin' out...

Now, Mighty Dictator, put your hands in mine
That verse that you sung is well superfine
You know that I know you in Trinidad
And you are king in singing calypso ballad.

Mighty Dictator:
Now Invader, you too are really great
And my statement no one can adjudicate
Put your hand in mine
Let our friendship remain sublime.

Lord Invader & Mighty Dictator:
War, war, war, war, war...
La da day, la da doy
La da day, la da day, la da doy.

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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"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