We Going Strong [Song]

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WE GOING STRONG
By Abbi Blackman

Trinbago, Trinbago, Trinbago.

The Almighty, from the corners of the earth build this nation
Blessings flowing down, a beauty abounding from creation
As we reach this time, this time of maturity
We embrace this decade - the golden fifties.

Sportsmen and sportswomen excelling
Calypsonian feeling the pulse of the people and commenting
Politicans extempoing to the rhythm of brethren and sistren
Forming and reforming and we agreeing and disagreeing
And I is I and you is you and we is we.

Trinbago we growing, we not failing
Despite all the crisis, we've reached the fifties
And we going strong, that doh mean we ent do nothing wrong
Keep on going, keep on growing strong!

We reach the fifties, hold your head high, high, high [Trinbago going strong]
The red, white and black flying in the sky [Trinbago going strong]
When we fall, we doh stay down, down, down [Trinbago going strong]
I ent leaving here, is here that I love and belong [Trinbago going strong]
The iron in the pan ringing the world over [Trinbago going strong]
The tassa saying come, come, come, come, come [Trinbago going strong]
Remember, is we who invented soca
Strong! Trinbago going strong!

Trinbago, Trinbago.

I, Mother T&T, sounding the gong for the old and the young
You are all different, different cultures but to me you belong
Indian, Chinese, Syrian, European, Africans
We all hitched to one another - true Trinbagonians
Let us bond in love with heart and soul
Casting away evil and lust, unity is fine goal[?].

Kamla, Manning, Panday and Jack
Ella, Gypsy, Leroy Clarke and David
Marionetttes, Desperadoes
Minshall, MacFarlane, Patricia, Wong Sang, Capildeo, ------ Lara
Makandal, Daaga, Russell Latapy, Ato, Sparrow
Eric Williams, Shorty I, all these names are our heroes
They -------- this society to reach the fifties
And we going strong, time for us to right the wrong
Keep on going, keep on growing strong.

We reach the fifties, hold your head high, high, high [Trinbago going strong]
The red, white and black flying in the sky [Trinbago going strong]
When we fall, we doh stay down, down, down [Trinbago going strong]
I ent leaving here, is here that I love and belong [Trinbago going strong]
The iron in the pan ringing the world over [Trinbago going strong]
The tassa saying come, come, come, come, come [Trinbago going strong]
Remember, is we who invented soca

Trinbago, Trinbago, Trinbago.

The guns popping in the hills and in the streets
Making mothers weep, the missing generation heaps
And the life blood seeping deep
Creating a pool of bitterness for us to reap
And the drugs swelling the pockets of lords and creeps.

My children, your reputation ent nice
You too big, drugs, thieving and killing - the Devil's device
You too big, wake up, you sleeping
So many years more nations should be building
Calypsonians, prophets, you not hearing
Mothers bawling, children falling, not enough justice
As T&T, oh gosh, I shame, I have to say this
Listen Trinbago, we ----------------
Red, white, black and yellow, this is the golden fifties
And we going strong, the killing going on too long
Keep on going, keep on growing strong!

We reach the fifties, hold your head high, high, high [Trinbago going strong]
The red, white and black flying in the sky [Trinbago going strong]
When we fall, we doh stay down, down, down [Trinbago going strong]
I ent leaving here, is here that I love and belong [Trinbago going strong]

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, Abbi Blackman.  A wonderful, uplifting song especially for this time.

For those of you who will be in the thick of things for the Carnival, try to be safe in everything that you do. Make sure that your children are left with responsible, adult carers if you have to go out without them. Look out for each other. Be grateful for and respect each other as you celebrate being alive and Trinbagonian.

"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