| J’ouvert morning I was beating pan
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| When I bounced up a chick that I knew before
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| Why, meh pan sound so sweet, she want to learn to beat
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| So she scrambled meh stick with a
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| flick she so quick and bold, oh gorm!
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| Rosita, leggo meh stick
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| Girl ah have to beat pan, leggo quick
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| On Carnival Day dis is not de way
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| If you really want to play come Ash Wednesday!
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| Listen Rosie, girl in any case
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| This is not de right time or de proper place
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| So go an' jump up, and please don’t interrupt
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| Everybody looking it is embarrassing, leggo, oh gosh
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| Rosita, leggo meh stick
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| J’y en a hard to beat pan, leggo quick
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| On Carnival Day dis is not de way
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| If you really want to play come Ash Wednesday!
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| Now de steelband goin' be moving soon
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| Going down Charlotte Street with a lovely tune
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| But ah just cyah function with meh two stick in your hand
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| At de end of de day you will get it when I done play, oh gosh
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| Rosita, leggo meh stick
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| Girl ah have to beat pan, leggo quick
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| On Carnival Day dis is not de way
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| If you really want to play come Ash Wednesday!
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| Look meh trouble on this J’ouvert morn'
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| Though I beg and beseech, she still holding on
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| Squeezing tighter, like of long time pan beater
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| Though she did make no row she insist she must get it now, somehow
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| Rosita, leggo meh stick
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| Girl ah have to beat pan, leggo quick
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| On Carnival Day dis is not de way
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| If you really want to play come Ash Wednesday! |