Gossiper [Song]


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GOSSIPER
By Shadow

Yada yada yada yada, yada yada yada yada

Rosemary came down in her nightgown
Telling Eunice people's business
Eunice, gyal, you don't know
Angie's husband beat off her big toe
The sweet man does give doggie bone
He get wag tail when he come home
The husband don't give doggie none
So the doggie bite off his bunion
It was a bacchanal, it was like Carnival
Let me tell yuh, gyal, she in the hospital.

This woman could gossip, she really could gossip
This woman could bad talk, she really could bad talk.

Her pot on the fie, the pigtail burn
Her child have a cold, the nostril stop up.

But she gossiping, yes, she gossiping

She know about Jean and she know about Merle
But she don't know her shoe have a hole in the sole

She gossiping, she gossiping.

She know about the neighbour with the brown skin child
Don't you see the way the little boy does smile?
He looking like the fella with the roti shop
Don't you see the way the boy does hold the cup?
The big head man that he calling Daddy
The child have nothing for the family
But she would never ever say how much she man does drink
She would never ever say her husband sneakers stink.

But she gossiping, yes, she gossiping
She gossiping, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she gossiping

If you tell she a little secret about Jack
How he kiss up Imelda down in the track
She run down the road to tell Rosemary
I go tell you something, don't tell nobody
She tell and she tell and she tell and she tell
She tell and she tell 'til she forget who she tell
She come back to you with the same story
I go tell you something, don't tell nobody
She forget is you who gave her them news
But she tell so much that she head confused.

She gossiping, yes, she gossiping
She gossiping, oh yeah, yeah, she gossiping.

She put on she pot on the fire
And she come down to talk to Delilah
I hearing her voice round the corner
She forget to peel the banana
Somebody dis, somebody dat
Somebody background getting fat
Somebody daughter belly big
Somebody slaughter somebody pig.

She gossiping, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she gossiping
She gossiping, she gossiping
She is a gossiper, she is a gossiper
She is a gossiper, she is a gossiper.

She bad talk a dog, how de tail too long
She said that the dog is a real pothound
She bad talk the pussin by Tanty place
She say that the cat have a tiefing face
You wouldn't believe, she bad talk a cock
She say that the cock have a beak like a duck
Dey cook up the cock and dey gave her a piece
She bad talk the meat, she said, too much ah grease.

She gossiping, yes, she gossiping
She gossiping, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she gossiping
That's a gossiper, oh-oh, she is a gossiper
She is a gossiper, she is a gossiper...yeah
She gossiping, uhmmm, she gossiping
She gossiping, she gossiping.

And if a dog have a pup too close to a mop
On her way to the shop, she'll pause and stop
She gossiping, she gossiping
She gossiping, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, she gossiping

Gossiping, gossiping, gossiping, gossiping lady
She's a gossiping, gossiping, gossiping lady
Gossiper gossiping, gossiper gossiping, gossiper.....

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

People Will Talk [Song]


Uploaded by Stroboscopicalia

PEOPLE WILL TALK
By King Fighter [Guyana]

Not only here in the West Indies, but I find people is hard to please
This is really true doh matter wey you do
I ent talking nonsense, this is practical experience
Don't mind how you try, they will criticise and I don't know why.

If you changing steady and you looking fancy,
They they will say how you showing off
And if you keeping yourself like a badjohn,
They will watch and laugh
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause if is not how you dress, is the way that you walk
The people will talk.

Take for instance when I was small, everyday is a bacchanal
Well, I always misbehaving with ------- and street fighting
Well, they talk all over the place, how I so bad and I out of place
Now I playing cool and easy, well, the same people say how I stupidee.

How I can't even fight, ---------- stepping light
With mih socks and shoe on mih feet
And how I playing I dis and I playing I dat
And like a girl, mih skin smelling sweet
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause if is not how you dress, is the way that you walk
The people will talk.

If a man have an ugly head like Yul Brynner
They will laugh 'til they nearly dead
Anywey he turn, Ha! Look de clean head man!
But if you head good looking good like mine
They will say that's a nice design
Nothing in this world, like you can't please people with at all.

If you changing steady and you looking fancy,
They they will say how you showing off
And if you keeping yourself like a badjohn,
They will watch and laugh
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause if is not how you dress, is the way that you walk
The people will talk.

In 1961, I was living in Shanty Town
Some people say how I going mad to choose the worst place in Trinidad
I leave the place and I went up San Fernando
I buy a big, fancy bungalow
Friends, I wouldn't lie, the same people say how I flying high.

If you changing steady and you looking fancy,
They they will say how you showing off
And if you keeping yourself like a badjohn,
They will watch and laugh
But I following a plan, I ent watching no man
I just doing to suit myself
'Cause you could black like tar or white like a chalk
The people will talk.

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

Can't Please All People [Song]


Uploaded by ScorpioPetey

CAN'T PLEASE ALL PEOPLE
By King Austin

My uncle, his name is Bobby,
He is an official judge with CDC
He came one morning early,
He say, King, I just quit the job with CDC
I say, Why, Uncle Bob?
He say, Boy I 'fraid that job
And I will tell you why,
Because the public never satisfy.

'Cause if I give Explainer, they say I rob the Scrunter
If I give the Blueboy, they say I trying to destroy
If I give the Penguin, they say I rob the Stalin
And the public can't understand the real thing
CDC only want one king
Ask the Almighty to judge for CDC.

Another thing I cannot understand
When you see the North Stand like a band
They just don't care anything
When they decide that band must win
But in this competition, everybody have their fan
So Austin, you see, uncle can't please everybody.

'Cause if I give Desperadoes, they say I rob Tokyo
If I give Pamberie, they say I tief Catelli
If I give -----------, they say I'm a old Highlanders
And the real thing the public can't understand
Panorama can only have one champion
Go and bring Jah Jah to judge the Panorama. Ey-ey!

Every year is the same old thing,
People complaining about bad judging
Some of them blaming the government,
While other people acting violent
Plenty, plenty old talk from Trinidad up to New York
Some say they taking sides,
Other people say dey taking bribes.

'Cause if I give it to Showcase, they say I fast and out of place
If I give Edmund Hart, dey say the judges dem smart
If I give ------------, dey say the judges drink rum
I would like the public to remember,
We can only have one band of the year
Ask the Almighty ------ to judge for CDC. Ey-ey!

Austin boy, please do not vex with me,
If you read the Scripture you must agree
Bible say in Revelation, whether right or wrong,
You must never judge no man
Dem people dem crying, calypsonian talking,
King Austin watching and the public only smiling.

'Cause if I give Desperadoes, they say I tief Tokyo
If I give Pamberie, they say I tief Catelli
If I give ------------, they say I'm a old Highlanders
And the real thing the public can't understand
Panorama can only have one champion
So I'll bring Jah Jah to judge the Panorama. Ey-ey!

Plenty panmen crying,
Calypsonian talking,
Austin watching....

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, King Austin!

"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