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Verse 1
All ah
them like dey getting kicks
With
dey stupid pan politics
While de
panman and woman working without a
cent
Experiment (real patient)
And development (true commitment)
To the steelpan de national
instrument
More than three
scores and ten of tradition
Our
fore fathers to this nation
Dedication
Since the 40’s we have
toil from dusk till dawn
Chorus
Gypsy what
wrong with yuh head
Like yuh
goin out yuh mind
Why yuh want to
take the panman small bread
Boy
yuh steppin out a line
Why yuh
want to do de panman dat
4
million and more yuh gave to Sat
What about the nation’s instrument
Cutting out we little employment
All yuh want to do my friend is to
kill the pan movement
We watchin
yuh
Panmen sayin to yuh
No
Gypsy Leave de money
We does work
real hard for steelband* (1) to
leave dey yard Gypsy (repeat up to
steelband*)
(2) leave dey yard
Gypsy leave de small money
Verse 2
In the islands
of T&T
Carnival is an industry
That does bring a lot ah money in
this country
One billion (one
billion)
To the nation (fix the
panman)
What about those who
really make it happen
Is the pan
and the mas and the calypso
Who
does work real real hard for big
show
Show some respect
Chorus
Gypsy what
wrong with yuh head
Like yuh goin
out yuh mind
Why yuh want to take
the little blackboy bread
Boy
yuh steppin out a line
Why yuh
want to do de panman dat
4
million and more yuh gave to Sat
What about the nation’s instrument
Cutting out we little employment
All yuh want to do my friend is to
kill the pan movement
We watchin
yuh
Panmen sayin to yuh
No
Gypsy Leave de money
We does work
real hard for steelband to leave dey
yard (repeat) leave dey yard Gypsy
leave de small money.
Verse 3
The
steelpan is an invention
From
some people like Spree Simon
Tony
Williams and all the brothers who
gave a hand
Is fire (is fire)
Wind and water (plenty water)
It
does take to make the steelpan
answer
Now the world they now
know of the steelpan
Yet we don’t
want to show to the panman
Appreciation
For the work that he
has done for this great land
Chorus
Gypsy what
wrong with yuh head
Like yuh goin
out yuh mind
Why yuh want to take
the panman small bread
Boy yuh
steppin out a line
Why yuh want
to do de panman dat
4 million
and more yuh gave to Sat
What
about the nation’s instrument
Cutting out we little employment
All yuh want to do my friend is to
kill the pan movement
We watchin
yuh
Panmen sayin to yuh
No
Gypsy Leave de money
We does work
real hard for steelband to leave dey
yard (repeat) leave dey yard Gypsy
leave de small money.
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