Hey Fam. My mom snuck a look at my computer and really dug Happy Blues. ...and then she said..write something about Barbados! Ain't exactly in that mood vibe BUT I gotta see her on Thankgiving! Lol. So Mom..here it is.
Glossary of Terms
Flying fish (national fish of Barbados. It's good eatin!)
Six Men's (located in St. Lucy Parrish where I was born)
Cou-cou (cornmeal, okra mixed with peppers, salt and Bajan hot sauce)
Plantain (close relative of the sweet banana)
Pudding n souse (pudding made of pig intestines stuffed with sweet potatoes. Souse is boiled pig head and trotters-don't knock it till ya tried it! Lmbo)
Gutterperk (a slingshot)
Just hum Mambo Inn and U got the vibe..
Here we go
I love a girl
She live down Six Men's way
On me bicycle we gonna ride
Up 2 Maycock's Bay
Have a little fun
And find a picnic spot
Catch some flyin fish
And roast em on de rocks
Man when I'm with her
It's never a bore
Her parents and she
Come from El Salvador
Everytime we kiss
She says Te Amo
I don't speak na Spanish
What she mean I don't know
But the sparkle in she eyes
I can always translate
Gotta peddle this bike harder
Cuz brudda I can't wait
1-2-3 we step
Barbados, me Island in the Sun
Feeling the Calypso beat
Dancing the Mambo Bajan
Later 2nite I tek her
2 me mom-ee house
Told me motha don't fret
She eat like a mouse
Me momm-ee said Oh Lord
I don't know what 2 do
I say Momm-ee don't fret
Mek a little fish and Cou-cou
If you have the time
Mek me favorite Black-eyed peas and rice
And a little carrot juice
2 wash it down real nice
Oh..and momm-ee on more ting
Don't mean 2 be a pain
Could you mek me a batch
Of your fried plantains
My mother met me girl
Said look how she eyes smile
Boy don't mek no sport
Keep her around 4 a while
They laughed and hugged
Nibbling on sweet coconut bread
Den me mom kissed her cheek
An went off 2 bed
1--2-3 step
Barbados, me Island in the Sun
Feeling the Calypso beat
Dancing the Mambo Bajan
I laughed with my Latin girl
'Member I said she eat like a mouse?
That was before she got a hold
Of some puddin n souse
Outside in the yard
I hit tin cans wit me guttterperk
While sweet Rosalita giggled
Tryin 2 stifle a burp
I ride her back home
So she can dress 4 the night
Mightly Sparrow and Byron Lee in concert
Oh mi God
What a flight
Down pon de Bay
Erskine de fisherman
Like 2 shot he flares
I love the way the light
Sparkles in she hair
Then we find a quiet spot
After all the laughter and fun
Me heart beatin so so fast
As she cotton dress come undone
And there we make love
In the Carribean sand
Of all de men in St. Lucy
I the luckiest man
But me momma always say
Luck run out dependin
On the road you trod
That Rosalita is a blessing
Straight from de Hand of God
Everybody
1-2-3 step
Barbados, me Island in the sun
Feeling the Calypso beat
Dancin the Mambo Bajan
Feeling the Calypso beat
Dancing the Mambo Bajan
Love U Mom
Peace and Blessings AL fam

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