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‘Gee
Gee Ree’
sung by “Crazy”
composed by George La Barrie
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“Gee Gee Ree”
“Crazy”
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“Gee Gee Ree”
“Crazy”
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LYRICSVerse 1
Ah have ah
good friend
His nickname is Jitters
And when you see him
He act very nervous
He always moving
We does get real pressure
Trying to find him
Is one set ah horrors
He hardly sit down at all
Yuh cyar find him when yuh call
The fella very slippery
Always busy
Search high and low
He on the go
Like a bumble bee
Cyar catch up with he
Chorus
The man Gee
Gee Ree
If yuh want the man to stay put
The man Gee Gee Ree
You could put handcuff on he foot
The man Gee Gee Ree
You could look for him up and down
The man Gee Gee Ree
Yuh could find him all over town
Look for him here - Look for him
there
Illusive like hell - Like the
Pimpernel
Verse 2
Ah say boy
Jitters
Leh we go Savannah
So we could listen
To the Panorama
But what a mistake
Ah make with the fella
He started jumping
Like he foot touch water
The whole place was in ah jam
The drag was really ram cram
He varnish into thin air
And disappear
Never sit still
He needs a pill
He’s a basket case
Cyar stay in one place
Chorus
_________________
Verse 3
Ah ketch up
with him
And ah tell him stay here
Meh wife Joan coming
She bringing some cold beers
He point he finger
When he hear the ‘Radoes
And push it right up
In ah Phase 2 man nose
He make ah hasty retreat
Because he nearly get beat
He tell the man from Phase 2
All yuh lost too
Then he tell we
Just like Ali
Like ah butterfly
Busy like ah Bee
Chorus
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“Crazy”
Edwin Ayoung or “Crazy” - born Edwin Ayoung in 1944, on Maraval Road in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad of a Venezuelan mother and Trinidadian father of Chinese descent, was - in his youth - as skilled and competitive in his country’s national pastime of cricket, as he has been now for years as a world-travelled musician, performing artist and composer.
Though dubbed The “Loveable Lunatic of Soca,” Ayoung has time and again not been given his due in his native land, yet remains one of the most commercially successful artists on the international soca scene. An experimentalist, he pioneered the unique musical genre known as Parang Soca and played a leading role in promoting Chutney Soca. Crazy would go on to sing several monster smashes in parang soca, including Muchacha and Homemade Wine.
A brilliant double-entendre artiste at its best - Edwin Ayoung has delighted in pushing the envelope in his humorous and witty manner. With songs like Paul, Nani Wine and Suck Meh Soucouyant to name but three, this illustrious performer remains a staple in the music world
He’s been ranked in the top three for Trinidad & Tobago’s annual national calypso monarch competition - his best showing being at position two with Dustbin Cover. He captured the prestigious Road March title (the ‘tune for the road’ during Carnival Monday and Tuesday) in 1985 with Suck Meh, Soucouyant.
“Crazy” has already been heard from for the season on Oh God, Oh God. He’s back on this track, Gee Gee Ree.
George La Barrie has been composing calypso music since 1975. His love for steelband music started as a young boy living on Nelson Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 1959 La Barrie played pan with ‘Mexicanos Steelband’ for the first time. His musical heroes are Lord Kitchener and master musician Clive Bradley.
In 2015
La Barrie penned
Hot Up Dey Head; the year
before that -
Thoroughbred of Pan.
Last year he
composed
Pan Eviction. His
skill set is on
display for 2017
with
Gee Gee Ree.
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