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CALYPSO MUSIC
By David Rudder
Can you hear a distant drum bouncing on the laughter of a melody? [yeah, yeah]
And does the rhythm tell you, come, come, come, come?
Does your spirit do a dance to this symphony? [yeah, yeah]
Does it tell you that your heart is afire? [oh yeah]
And does it tell you that your pain is a liar? [oh yeah]
Does it wash away all your unlovely?
Well, are you ready for a brand new discovery?
Calypso, calypso oho, calypso music [yeah yeah]
Calypso, calypso oho, calypso husic
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Ah say that I am the seed of the Growling Tiger now
I got to sing, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso.
It is a living vibration rooted deep within my Caribbean belly
Lyrics to make a politician cringe or turn a woman's body into jelly [shake it up, shake it up]
It is a sweet soca music, calypso
You coulda never refuse it, calypso
It make you shake like a Shango now, calypso
Why it is you shaking, you don't know - that's calypso!
Calypso, calypso oho, Calypso Music (yeah yeah)
Calypso, calypso oho, Calypso Music
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Ah say that I am the seed, am the seed of Atilla now, I'm like a Hun
I got to sing, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso.
I can still hear Lion roar through Greenwich village
While Executor kills them dead at the Ribbon Blue
Lord Invader conquers Berlin, but their hearts this time,
And Lord Kitchener making old London feel so new, Beginner and Terror too
Fitzroy Coleman fingers dancing on the fret [dancing on the fret]
And when you think that he through, he ent start nothing yet [ent start nothing yet]
Carnegie Hall graced by the presence of Sparrow, oh ho ho
And when Slinger done with dey tail, hear them shouting
"Don't go! Sparrow, don't go!"
Why?
Calypso, calypso oho, calypso music [yeah yeah]
Calypso, calypso oho, calypso music
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Ah say that I am the seed, am the seed of the Spoiler now,
I wanna fall, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
I want to rise, I want to rise!
From the time the first bamboo cut and we drag it down from up in the St. Ann's Hills
From the day the first chantuelle lead the band, the real jamming start that day
And we jamming still, still
Creating rhythm dat could be deadly like Headley
Only this time is the lyric and the melody wey sending they soul to the boundary
From the bongo drum to de roll of de tassa
Well, ever since Europe come and she make massa bassa
We jamming it!
Calypso, calypso oho, calypso music (yeah yeah)
Calypso, calypso oho, calypso music
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
Singing wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso
We gonna sing it in a London [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
we gonna sing it in America, yeah [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
We gonna sing it in Africa, calypso [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
We gonna sing it in Europe, now, calypso [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
We gonna sing it up America, yea, calypso now, now [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
We gonna sing de calypso [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
C-A L-Y-P-S-O [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
C-A L-Y-P-S-O [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso]
C-A L-Y-P-S-O [wo yeah yeah, wo yeah yeah, wo yeah calypso].....
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, David Rudder.
"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
