Still A Paradise [Song]


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STILL A PARADISE
By Denyse Plummer

We quick to bad talk T&T, quick to say how things so hard
Disregard those who govern we and slander their name real bad
If you think it easy in some other country
Out there it ent so nice, you just take my advice
Here still a paradise.

Trinbago sweet like sugar and spice [This place still a paradise]
I tell you once, I go tell you twice [This place still a paradise]
All is not well but out there is war, more crime and vice
[This place still a paradise]
To the point and precise [This place still a paradise]
Don't accept no compromise [This place still a paradise]
With just some sacrifice [This place still a paradise]

Just because someone get murder, some want to pack up and flee
USA or to Canada as though there they live safely
But each day you venture, a bomb might be out there
On the subway waiting or in your work building
Or when your child home sleeping, I ent joking.

Trinbago sweet like sugar and spice [This place still a paradise]
Some does bad talk but I say it nice [This place still a paradise]
We all broken but we children sneakers real high price
[This place still a paradise]
We may be small in size [This place still a paradise]
But we still take the top prize [This place still a paradise.]
Trini, open your eyes [This place still a paradise.]

In Japan there's nowhere to hide, boy, you do not have a clue
When the poisonous gas cyanide will be released to kill you
Doh plan to go L.A., earthquake could strike each day
Hurricane, volcano, heatwave in Chicago but not here in Trinbago, no sir.

Trinbago sweet like sugar and spice [This place still a paradise]
Freedom to exercise your franchise [This place still a paradise]
For each night at Smokey and Bunty, a lime will gather
[This place still a paradise]
Even top minister [This place still a paradise]
All into early morning [This place still a paradise.]
You bet dey ent moving [This place still a paradise.]

One monkey down in Africa start an epidemic there
A virus they call Ebola wipe out thousands over there
We don't have that problem, just one sorry item
Bad eggs in our system which we must eradicate
But I will not migrate, no debate.

Trinbago sweet like sugar and spice. [This place still a paradise]
Is just a few black heads in the rice [This place still a paradise]
So we must weed out all the devils in disguise
[This place still a paradise]
You can't stop the feting [This place still a paradise]
It raining, I ent working [This place still a paradise]
The rum and coke with little ice [This place still a paradise]
Neighbour, bring some peas and rice [This place still a paradise]
Bacchanal in parliament
A drink go fix the argument [This place still a paradise]

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

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