Gavaskar [Song]

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GAVASKAR
By Lord Relator
Accompanied by Andy Narell on the steelpan.

A lovely day for cricket, blue skies and gentle breeze
The Indians are awaiting now to play the West Indies
A signal from the umpire, the match is going to start
The cricketers come on the field, they all look very smart.

Erapalli Prasanna, Jeejeebhoy and Wadekar
Krishnamurthy and Vishnoo Mankad
Them boys could real play cricket on any kinda wicket
They make the West Indies team look so bad
We was in all kinda trouble, Joey Carew pull a muscle
Clive Lloyd get 'bout three run out
We was in trouble without a doubt

It was Gavaskar, the real master
Just like a wall, we couldn't out Gavaskar at all, not at all
You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all.

Venkataraghavan, Bedi in a turban
Vijay Jaisimha, Jayantilal
They help to win the series against the West Indies
At Sabina Park and Queen's Park Oval
A hundred and fifty-eight by Kanhai
Really sent our hopes up high
Noriega nine for ninety-five
The Indian team they still survive.

It was Gavaskar, the real master
Just like a wall, we couldn't out Gavaskar at all, not at all
You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all.

Govindraj and Durani, Solkar, Abid Ali
Dilip Sardesai and Viswanath
They make West Indies bowlers look like second raters
When those fellows came out here to bat
West Indies tried Holder and Keith Boyce
They had no other choice
They even try with Uton Dowe
But ah sure that they sorry they bring him now.

It was Gavaskar, the real master
Just like a wall, we couldn't out Gavaskar at all, not at all
You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all.

Little Desmond Lewis, also Charlie Davis
Dey take a little shame from out we face
But Sobers as a captain, he want plenty coaching
Before we cricket end up in a disgrace
Bedi hear that he became a father
He catch out Holford in the cover
But when Sobers hear he too had a son
He make duck and went back in the pavilion.

It was Gavaskar, the real master
Just like a wall, we couldn't out Gavaskar at all, not at all
You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all
You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all
You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all.

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, Lord Relator.  

"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