Songs for Bajan Opera
The Bajan Opera was a performed in one of the Thursday night lives, in Redhook.
I still remember myself, dressing up like a girl. That was terrible :)
Here are the Lyrics.
Stand-pipe song
Girl: Every time I pass they trouble me. Every time I pass they trouble me. I going to tell me Mamma don't send me down
here.
Men: Well tell you Mama don't send you down here. Well tell you Mama don't send you down here.
Girl: Every time I pass they trouble me. Every time I pass they trouble me. I going to tell me Mamma don't send me down
here.
Men: Well tell you Mama don't send you down here. Well tell you Mama don't send you down here.
(quick tempo)
Girl: Every time I pass they trouble me. Every time I pass they trouble me. I going to tell me Mamma don't send me down
here.
Men: Well tell you Mamma don't send you down here.
Girl: I going to tell you Mamma don't send me down here.
Woman: Every time she pass they pull at she. Every time she pass they pull at she. We going to tell she Mamma don't
send she down here.
Men: Well tell she Mamma don't send she down here. Well tell she Mamma don't send she down here.
(Break)
Men: If she father come down here.
Women: They trouble she.
Men: If she Mamma come down here
Women: They trouble she.
Men: If Uncle come down here
Together: They trouble she, they trouble she, they trouble she.
Women: We going tell she Mamma don't send she down here.
Men: Well tell she Mamma don't send she down here.
Girl: I going tell me Mamma don't send me down here.
Men: Well tell you mamma don't send you down here.
Together: We going tell she Mamma don't send she down here.
Courting song
Together: Sweet sweet leather coat and coucou (Repeat 3 times)
Darling I going marry to you
Men: Darling let me see your fing fing. (Repeat 3 times)
That fing fing going to wear my ring.
Together: Sweet sweet leather coat and coucou (Repeat 3 times)
Darling I going marry to you
Women: Darling come and see my fing fing. (Repeat 3 times)
My fing fing going to wear your ring.
Together: Sweet sweet leather coat and coucou (Repeat 3 times)
Darling I going marry to you
Poor Millie
Rufus: Millie gone to Brazil (Repeat 3 times)
Women: Oh Lord!
Millie gone to Brazil oh lord poor Millie. (Repeat twice)
With the wire rap round she waist and the razor cut up she face. (Repeat twice)
Together: Millie gone to Brazil oh lord poor Millie. (Repeat twice)
With the wire rap round she waist and the razor cut up she face. (Repeat twice)
Together: Millie down in the well oh lord poor Millie. (Repeat twice)
With the wire rap round she waist and the razor cut up she face. (Repeat twice)
Rufus: Millie gone to Brazil oh lord poor Millie. (Repeat twice)
With the wire rap round she waist and the razor cut up she face.
Please Mr. B don't lock up me cause Millie belong to me.
Together: Millie gone to Brazil oh lord poor Millie. (Repeat twice)
With that wire rap round she waist and the razor cut up she face.
Please Mr. B don't lock up he cause he went and kill Millie!
Cut the Sugar Cane
Man: Well we work all day and we work all night
Together: Cut the sugar cane till it bun we hand
Man: We cut all the cane with no end in sight
Together: Cut the sugar cane till it bun we hand
Together: Planters planting sugar cane the cane so big and tall. In the boiling sun and the dripping rain money for one
and all. OH.......
Cut the sugar cane till it bun me hand
Man: When harvest come we reap all the cane.
Together: Cut the sugar cane till it bun we hand
Man: In boiling sun and the dripping rain.
Together: Cut the sugar cane till it bun we hand
Together: Planters planting sugar cane the cane so big and tall. In the boiling sun and the dripping rain money for one
and all. OH.......
Cut the sugar cane till it bun me hand
1999-2001 written by Sato