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Cahuita is a beautiful place
Walter Ferguson
Cahuita is a beautiful place everybody knows
come and listen to the negro race
hear we/ singing calypso
din bang
wherever I be wherever I go
want you to see
they call me the master of calypso
welcome to cahuita town (me say) (me friend)
welcome one and all
Drink your rum and till you tumble down,
what it is at all
London bridge is falling down
My fair lady
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Caroline/ Kawe Calypso
05:24
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Everybody running to the carnaval I say
Everybody running to the spree on carnaval day
old and the young the great and the small
Everybody running to the carnaval
Everybody running to the carnaval I say
One shirt Willie and he mother in law May May
see them pushing to the crowd on carnaval day
nothing to eat and nothing to wear but the carnaval
they are bound to be there
Everybody running to the carnaval
Twist eyed Mary Ann she was in love with the policeman
she made to understand she wanted to take the calypsonian
Everybody running to the carnaval
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Black man food
Palalé, the mishilá and the concanté
I tell you that is black man food
Tell hungry belly to go away
No matter how inflation is gettin rude
Gimme me ñampi, cocoa and banana
Add ya man calalloo
Tell it to your neighbor
May he come and join with you
Yuca bami and a ripe pear and
A mug of cocotea
And you neighbor try to interfeare
You blast his soul in bombodee
I sing it:
Palalé, the mishilá and the concanté
One day I was cooking palalé
There came a gal they call Winifred
I know she will join at me
So I hide me palalé under me bed
Palalé, the mishilá and the concanté
I tell you that is black man food
Tell hungry belly to go away
No matter how inflation is gettin rude
Gimme me ñampi, cocoa and banana
Add ya man calalloo
Tell it to your neighbor
May he come and join with you
Yuca bami and a ripe pear and
A mug of cocotea
And if you neighbor try to interfeare
You blast his soul in bombodee
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Me invitaron a una fiesta
Y era un gran festival
Con tacuma y anansy
Imaginen que fista tan liberal
Me ofrecieron una silla
Mientras practicaban su melodía
La música estaba linda y cantaban
Gial you want fi come kill me
fifio fo fi a fa
Gial you want fi come kill me (x2)
Mono se casó con la hija del congo
Gial you want fi come kill me
Hicieron una cena de sopa de mondongo
Gial you want fi come kill me
fifio fo fi a fa
Gial you want fi come kill me (x 2)
Anansy playing the fiddle
Tacuma beating the drum
Breda Donkey giving a riddle
Breda Monkey drinking the rum
Gira gira Matilde
Gial you want fi come kill me
Baila baila Matilde
Gial you want fi come kill me
See me how me jumping off me seat
and running home like a jet
For the music was sounding sweet
I went and bring out me clarinet
hear me playing
Now the crowd was getting bigger
they come to join the festivity
monkey was into his liquor
he start to sing out his melodys
Wheel out Matilde
Gial you want fi come kill me
Baila baila Matilde
Gial you want fi come kill me
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Rumba de Cahuita
Walter Ferguson
One day I been to a festival
Me and me melodious band
They were having bacanal
They were happy to see the calypsonian
Some were playing the tumba
Some were singing melodiously
But they wanted a rumba
and they beg me to sing it melodiously
oye mi rumba mi rumba mi rumba
mi rumba de Cahuita mi rumba mi rumba
una morenita tocando la tumba
la otra chiquitita bailando la rumba
oye mi rumba mi rumba mi rumba
mi rumba de Cahuita mi rumba mi rumba
mi rumba mi rumba oye mi rumba
mi rumba mi rumba oye mi rumba
el mono y la mona sentados en la grada
la mona dijo al mono vos sos mi camarada
Pero oye mi rumba mi rumba mi rumba
mi rumba de Cahuita mi rumba mi rumba
mi rumba mi rumba oye mi rumba
mi rumba mi rumba oye mi rumba
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Inflation/Boulpik
04:31
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I never was afraid of a cobra
A leopard, tiger or a lion
But I talking over and over
I am afraid of the long tonge man
Because long tongue man what is at all
Long tongue man everybody ball
I want you to understand
The weakedest thing
is a longue tongue man
Anytime a woman not feeling well
and she lay down quietely
long tongue man say she belly swell
and he sure she making baby
I know a special long tongue man
in this community
he only want to see a woman
and he sures she making baby
bin ban bin ban
I want you to understand
The weakedest thing
is a longue tongue man
I know a special long tongue man
in this community
he only want to see a woman
and he sures she making baby
bin ban bin ban
I want you to understand
The weakedest thing
is a longue tongue man
I was cooking palalé
me and me girlfriend Winifred
long tongue man visit me
and we hide the palalé under me bed
Because long tongue man what is at all
Long tongue man everybody ball
I want you to understand
The weakedest thing
is a longue tongue man
I never was afraid of a cobra
A leopard, tiger or a lion
But I talking over and over
I am afraid of the long tonge man
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Good Day
Walter Ferguson
Good day my friend we´re happy to see
I wish you joy and prosperity
And may you´re all be happy and gay
Good day my friend good day
From matter of calypso
From matter of melody
Everybody have to know
we surely envy nobody
Good day my friend we´re happy to see
I wish you joy and prosperity
(sing again)
And may you´re all be happy and gay
Good day my friend good day
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Manuel Monestel San José, Costa Rica
In 1974 he founded his first group, Erome dedicated to Latin American music, in 1978he joined Tayacán, led by Luis Enrique
Mejia Godoy.
Co-founder of the New Song movement in Costa Rica.
In 1980 he founded the Cantoamérica that has recorded 13 albums and traveled the world for over 30 years.
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