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By David Rudder, Bunji Garlin & Faye-Ann Lyons
Spoken words: I have much pleasure in sending you this message today. Strive for excellence in character in the great virtues such as truthfulness, obedience and honesty so that under God, our nation will produce worthy citizens. Bacchanal and confusion cannot be the foundation of an orderly society.
Red, white and black
Red, white and black
Red, white and black
Red, white and black
All I want to see is love in the sky
Three colours up high, three colours up high
Too blessed to be stressed, display it with pride
Three colours up high, three colours up high!
Red, white and black. Let's rep a new policy
Red, white and black. Show Carnival diplomacy
Red, white and black. Look, man does disagree
Red, white and black. But right now we moving in harmony.
Rise, yes, my people rise!
-------------- , just open your eyes
Rise, yes, my people rise!
Don't you realise this land is our prize.
We rising! woh oh oh oh
We rising! yeah, yeah
We rising! woh oh oh oh
We rising!
Everybody!
Never ever let the loving subside
Three colours up high, three colours up high
Don't concede to greed, stand firm with pride
Three colours up high, three colours up high
Everybody sing!
Red, white and black. Teach the world the policy
Red, white and black. It's a carnival diplomacy
Red, white and black, yeah, yeah. Sometimes we may disagree
Red white and black. And yet still we jamming in harmony
Rise, yes, my people rise!
Politics aside, move forward with pride
Rise up, rise up!
Rise, yes, my people rise!
Don't just criticise
Let's reclaim this paradise.
Everybody sing!
We rising! yeah, woh oh oh oh
We rising! yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
We rising! woh oh oh oh
We rising!
The whole nation chanting...
Red, white and black
Red, white and black
Red, white and black
Red, white and black
Jamming in harmony
Bacchanal could never be the foundation
If we want to come and build up a strong nation
No bacchanal could ever be a good solution... no, no, no
Solving the problems of this great nation.
Red, white and black. Well everybody say
Red, white and black. Put up your colours high
Red, white and black. Well everybody
Red, white and black. Hold them up right now to the blessed sky.
Red, white and black, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up
Red, white and black, in the air, in the air
Red, white and black, in the air, in the air
From Charlotteville to San Fernando
Red white and black, -------------
Red, white and black, my people rise!
Carenage down to Toco
Red, white and black, my people rise!
From Toco to Mayaro
Red, white and black, my people rise!
New York to Toronto
Red, white and black, my people rise!
London down
Red, white and black, my people rise!
Anywhere Trini come down
Red, white and black my people rise,
Soca warriors
Red, white and black, my people rise!
Red, white and black, my people rise!
No turning back, no turning back
Red, white and black, tell me, tell me
Red, white and black, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Red, white and black.....
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, David Rudder, Bunji Garlin & Faye-Ann Lyons, for this beautiful message. Ris, yu, peiti!!! My people rising!
"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
2 comments:
Thank you for posting this. It's a shame, and I don't know how it's possible, but this is the first time I've heard it.
"Bacchanal and confusion cannot be the foundation of an orderly society."
Oh, if only we would learn, instead of priding ourselves on said bacchanal and confusion.
Same here, Liane! Hadn't heard it until the day before I posted it on the blog. I stumbled across it on YouTube and loved it. Very, very effective use of those spoken words and their inspiring message at the start. I also liked this:
"Rise, yes, my people rise!
Politics aside, move forward with pride
Rise up, rise up!
Rise, yes, my people rise!
Don't just criticise
Let's reclaim this paradise."
Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Blessings
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