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Verse
1
Yuh better take me
with you
When yuh going away
New York or Paris, Brazil or L.A.
Cause in my land
We are like orphans
You can
Take me wid you to stay
Better take me wid you
When yuh going back home
London, Toronto, Miami or Rome
Leh me travel
To where de people
Girdle
And love all dats their own
Chorus
It was a tourist
and his wife
Having de time of their life
When de voices of my land
Up and cried
Start to complain
In one refrain
How dey dissatisfied
It was a lonesome kinda plea
From de soul of T’nT
To de visitors who were
Starry-eyed
Please come again
And bring yuh friends
Your love is bonafide
Verse
2
Asa Wright to
Pitch Lake
Up Maracas Way
Join in de chorus
De same thing dey say
Even turtles
Digging sand castles
Nestle
Write it on Matura Bay
While de Scarlet Ibis
Over Caroni
Cocorico sing it
Over L’Anse Fourmi
Even fireflies
Write in de night skies
Be wise
Show love for T’nT
Chorus
_________________
Bridge
A culture to a
Country
Is like a mirror on a wall
It shows de World your beauty
Is your highest protocol
And when you represent with pride
The world will give you space
But if identity denied
Your signature erased
Verse 3
Steelpan and
calypso
Tassa and Chutney
Have dey earbell ringing
Wid sweet melody
Dey in Great Race
Like is dey birthplace
Showcase
Soaking Trini beauty
From J’Ourvert to Last Lap
Yuh can’t recognize
Dis foreign couple
De way dey disguised
When dey leaving
Dey done start grieving
Cleaving
Still dazed and hypnotized
Chorus
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“Take Me With You”
Joanne Foster
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Joanne Foster
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Joanne Foster:
She first stepped into the entertainment spotlight in 1988 as a vibrant young teenager,
immediately
announcing her potential by being awarded
‘Best Soloist
& Dancer’ at the San Fernando Arts Festival for Schools.
The following year she placed second in the National Teen Talent Show.
In 1994 Joanne
Foster emerged as one of COTT’s
(Copyright
Organisation of
Trinidad & Tobago) National Song Festival Winners.
She made her 1995 debut at the Spectacular Forum, copping the National Carnival Commission (NCC)
award for the ‘Most Promising Female Calypsonian.’
Joanne was also a Calypso Fiesta
semi finalist in her first appearance at that Skinner Park event.
She would make five subsequent appearances at the Semi Finals: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008.
Additionally, from
2003 she was in the South Monarch Competition
finals for eight consecutive years.
A background
vocalist attached to
the Junior “Ibo”
Joseph Dancing Dread
Studio for many
years, Joanne has
sung background
vocals for many of
the top calypsonians
in Trinidad and
Tobago. In 2012 she
made her debut in
the ‘Pan Tune’ genre
with an exciting
tribute to Pan women
everywhere called Pan Woman Jammin’.
For 2013, the 50th anniversary of Panorama, Joanne delivered a stirring, uptempo, pulsating tribute to Steelpan
tuners the world over with
More than an Oil Drum, another collaboration with Don Clarke and “GB” - with
which she won the 2013 Calypso Queen title in Trinidad and Tobago.
The versatile vocalist is back again here in the ongoing collaboration for 2014,
this time singing Take Me With You. |
Don Clarke’s entry into the world of composing music for the steelpan took place in 2004, when he composed
The Bomb vocalised by Edwin Ayoung
aka ‘Crazy.’ Celebrated
Pan arranger Robert
Greenidge arranged
the song that year for Pan Knights as their Panorama selection.
Don has composed a number of pieces for the steelpan - the likes of
Pan Mamaguy, Delgado – a musical tribute to the deceased iconic
Pan maker Lincoln “Delgado” Noel, River
Lime, Momentum and Pan Woman Jammin’.
An Atlanta, Georgia, USA resident - Don makes the annual pilgrimage to his homeland to immerse himself in the intensity of the steelband Panorama and to keep grounded with developments within the steelpan community in
Trinidad & Tobago.
For 2014 the awesome foursome of
Don Clarke, Gregory Ballantyne, Junior “Ibo”
Joseph and Joanne Foster have again come together to produce two exciting
compositions for the Pan: On De Drag and the
track featured here, Take Me With You. The
latter is dedicated to the late
Cyrus Busby (of Despers USA and D’Radoes steel orchestras), who choose the
title (Take Me With You) not long before his passing.
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Gregory “GB”
Ballantyne
began composing
professionally in
1986, when he
collaborated with
Len “Boogsie” Sharpe
to pen
Pan Rising and
Dis Feeling Nice sung by Denise
Plummer. In the
ensuing years he
would co-write
winning Panorama
selections for
Desperadoes, and
again for Phase II.
In Trinidad, GB’s
compositions have
won the National
Calypso Monarch
(Senior and Junior)
Young King,
International
Humour, National
Queen, Unattached
Monarch, South
Calypso King and East
Zone Monarch.
His works have placed artistes
like Rikki Jai,
Devon Seale, The
Mystic Prowler,
Aaron Duncan, to
name a few, into
winner’s row.
GB’s credits also include
National and
Regional Calypso
Monarch titles in
Antigua and
Anguilla, as well as
Chutney hits such as
‘Tassa-Man’ sung by Rooplal Gidharie and
the perennial
favourite ‘Ribbons’
sung by Marilyn
Williams. |
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