Take a Ride [Song]

Uploaded by cool4rocknroll
TAKE A RIDE
By Mighty Shadow

Papa ------ oy-oy-oy-oy, Papa ------ ey
Papa ------ oy-oy-oy-oy, Papa ------ ey
They tell me you can see the future
You're the person with the vision
If you can really see the future
Can you tell me what will be that will be?

In the future do you see me riding on my big, black donkey
When all dem oil wells are empty and Mister Manning confront me,
"I want a ride, I want a ride, I want a ride, I want a ride."
When the country have small money, you want people ban their belly
Don't watch my donkey, I tell you don't touch my donkey
When the country had big money, you telling me 2020
You want a ride, you want a ride, you want a ride? Take a ride!

Papa ------ oy-oy-oy-oy, Papa ------ ey
Papa ------ oy-oy-oy-oy, Papa ------ ey
They tell me you are just like Noah
You know most things, even ghost things
If you really, really know things
Can you tell me what the future will be?

In the future do you see me riding on my big, black donkey
When all dem oil wells are empty and Mister Manning confront me
"I want a ride, I want a ride, I want a ride, I want a ride."
Will I send him up by Rowley, Mason Hall have plenty donkey
Some curious donkey, mysterious donkey
If you only mention money, they gone with you down the gully
You want a ride, you want a ride, you want a ride? Take a ride!

Papa ------ oy-oy-oy-oy, Papa ------ ey
Papa ------ oy-oy-oy-oy, Papa ------ ey
They tell me you have all the answers
For all questions and suggestions
If you really have the answers,
Can you tell me what will be that will be?

In the future do you see me riding on my big, black donkey
When all dem oil wells are empty and Mister Manning confront me
"You sing on me, eh? you sing on me, you sing on me, you sing on me."
Will I tell him don't dig nothing, this is just a calypso thing
Come watch my donkey, you could even touch my donkey
I don't want to make you angry, you could even ride my donkey
You want a ride, you want a ride, you want a ride? Take a ride!

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, Shadow.

"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

My Way of Protest. [Song]

Uploaded by edward spencer
MY WAY OF PROTEST
By The Mighty Chalkdust

When postmen see things that they don't like, they either go slow or strike
And when some people hate the government, they leave for a next continent
And when some people cannot get employment - G.C.E. boys scrunting on the pavement
For that, some of you might curse and get vex too, but listen to what I does do:
When things ent right, I does feel uptight
I does feel to curse, sometimes I does feel to fight
But every man in life today will show anger in his own way
So Panday will walk out from the House and Robbie will say, "No justice, you louse!"
When I'm vex, well, I cannot go and cuff Eric in his eye
So instead, I does simply cry, "Juba Doo Bai!"

You see why I cry, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]?

There are many ills in this country that make most of us angry
Like when government close George the Fifth Park, or T&TEC leave us in the dark
And when the police up to Gonzales went and put poor people things on the pavement
And City Council getting the Drag Brothers vexed, a madman and all will get vex.
That can't be right, you must feel uptight
You might feel to fight, or shoot someone on sight
But not me, I does think before I ever go and break the law
So when Basil Pitt lost his seat and yet they made him Minister complete
I'd like to tell Basil to try and kiss my upper thigh
But I does cool down and cry, ["Juba Doo Bai!"]

You see why I cry, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]?

Oh, citizens are out in the rain, they have nowhere to complain
They have no cash to file an injunction, they haven't an Ombudsman
And that is why some boys became guerrillas, or turn to mutiny like them soldiers
Or use violence and end up being charged, or cuss the judge like Ramesh Maharaj - Not me!
I try to win doing my own thing,
I used to 'fraid Karl but now I 'fraid Selwyn
So when they ban "Tourist Leggo", no road march for that calypso
I must get vex with CDC for they destroying Caribbean unity
I'd like to take the CDC to Shadow to buss up dey toe
But I 'fraid Shadow dig out their eye, so, ["Juba Doo Bai!"]

You see why I cry, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]?

Juba Doo Bai is there for a stand against human oppression
It's a cry against foreign domination, we want a free land without corruption
That's why I am vexed when from the Treasury here, a hundred thousand dollars disappear
And Selwyn holding people like he mad, while the real thieves in his backyard.
Selwyn, wey you do? I vex till I blue.
You mean you can't see that the Doc using you?
The people you should hold and try, to them you turning a blind eye
Hold the police officer who they say was working right here for the CIA
Since you half blind, next time we meet, I'll say, "Selwyn, you cokey eye."
But my friends, I am too shy, so, ["Juba Doo Bai!"]

That's the meaning of ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
So my friends, whenever you hear that cry ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
That's to pull them folks from their places high ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
To eradicate them European ties ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
To protect and defend our rights, I cry, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
Mister, take off that old British tie, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
When I want to curse in my own style, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
No four letter words for me, not this guy! ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
Tubal Uriah Butler, wherever you lie, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]
To your memory I dedicate this cry, ["Juba, Juba Doo Bai!"]

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, Mighty Chalkdust. Juba Doo Bai! 

"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

Unwritten Law [Song]

Uploaded by IsDePanInMe

UNWRITTEN LAW
By Chalkdust

Well, Mister Politician, with your right hand you swore honestly
With Bible in hand or with the Qu'ran, you pledged to serve we
A committed man with religion, you once used to be
But when the Treasury band pass by your station, man, you get greedy
So you -------- and you feel as man you get 'way scotch free
No Integrity Commission can't touch your stolen money
But you still must face something higher than any Commission
And that's the punishment ------ the calypsonian.

When you see Pink Panther and Cro Cro
Name you a thief in their calypso
As they pass that sentence on your head
You'll be called a big thief until you dead
And when you dead, there's still no relief
People will call all your generation thief
So before you join politics, you must know
In Trinbago, you must bow down to calypso!

Well, Mister Politician, you join the band to rape the Treasury
Kickbacks and grease hand from them businessman have you now wealthy
Up in Switzerland a big million you stash 'way tax free
But the calypsonian -----------------------------
Mister Politician, what you have done calls for harsh treatment
--------- granting you no bail is soft punishment
Charging you a fine mix with cat o' nine is like mashing your toe
But you will feel the blow when we jail you in calypso!

When you see Duke and Valentino
Find you guilty in their calypso
All in India where them CD's go
They'll call you a thief and a scamp also
People will dance to their tunes in Toronto
And call your name as a pappyshow
No future can't save you from that spirit blow
This ent chutney, you know, you must bow down to calypso!

Well, Mister Politician, the calypsonian throughout history
Has fought corruption from parliamentarians and skulduggery
British governors, prime ministers have all felt its weight
Albert Gomes, ----------, Eric Williams, they were laid out straight
Sparrow punish Patrick Solomon for freeing his stepson
And the whole world still 'fraid Karl for his laws on sedition
And in history all children will learn that Chambers duncey
And Gabby destroy Tom Adams in Bridgetown city.

When you see Brigo and King Sparrow
Name you a scamp in their calypso
Is best ten cobo pee on your head
You'll wish the hangman hang you instead
For when King Sparrow say so, is so
If Sparrow lie, is still true you know.
Look, Black Stalin make Dhanraj Singh know
You can't play macho, you must bow down to calypso!

Well, Mister Politician, the queen of England respects kaiso
She and Prince Charles know what they'll undergo if they tackle Crusoe
Colin Powell know that kaiso is the unwritten law
So he let Bush know he does sing kaiso before he fight war
Mister Politician, the great Imam, Reverend Farrakhan
Got his strength and determination from being a kaisonian
Kaiso make Eric Williams bawl out, "Let the jackass bray!"
So who the hell is Jack Warner, he's a small fish, I say.

If kaiso was born in America
George Bush would be humble as ever
Whenever he open his mouth in Congress
Aloes woulda hit him and give him bless
You might get 'way with bank accounts in Scotland
Bank under wife name up in London
But once you live here in Trinbago
We come like the Pharaoh, you must bow down to 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!
..............................................................................................................................
"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

Good Driving [Song]

Uploaded by Clynton Mann
GOOD DRIVING
By Luta

They say he was too vindictive and wicked, he had vengeance against Trini
Abu Bakr should kill him, July 1990
Only thinking about Tobago, he ent deserve to be alive
So we kick him out and tell him go, singing the driver can't drive.

But now, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
The driver renovate the kitchen for 1.6 million
Advertise the face on TV for only 400 grand.
Boy, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
You better take your separation and don't call it retrenchment
It's rightsizing operation from the people's government.
I tell you, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

The dragon spitting fire, look how them five little children drown
Explosion in Camp Omega, so the driver took the dragon down
But then thirteen people dead in St. Ann's, up to now I still feeling shame
After thorough investigations, they can't even find a dove to blame.

Fus the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
Eric Williams died since '81, and this everybody know
Yet the driver say he just holding on and is Eric running the show.
I tell you, the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
A fella borrowed 12 million dollars, with bad planning, he lost everything
But the driver take him and make him Minister of Planning
The driver good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

I am not so stupid to oppose them, this is PNM country
Robinson was the problem; praise God we get rid of he
Since we send him back to Castara, poor people ent poor again
No more armed robberies and murder, no more vagrants in Port of Spain.

That's because the driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
And there was no devaluation, the dollar just float in town
That's the way to fight inflation, this year food price coming down.
Why? The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
You paying too much tax already and this is a caring government
So the exorbitant transfer fee is not a tax, that's a punishment.
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

Don't ever think the driver is stupid because he ent explain yet
Why he think it is valid to put more Indians in Cabinet
And when it comes to making Budget, what an outstanding human being
Oil is thirteen dollars on the market but he sure we go get nineteen.

The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
The driver went and tell Bill Clinton, he want to catch some drug traffickers
But if he ent get assistance, all ah we go be drug pushers
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving]
They used to call Eric "deafy", Robinson, they say was heartless
I and all thought Chambers duncee but this fella is the best.
The driver driving good [the driver driving]
The country moving smooth [the country moving].

The driver driving goooood, the country moving smooooth
The driver driving goooood, the country moving smooooth...

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, Luta.

"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