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Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2017 - HOME
sung by “Crazy”
composed by Edwin Ayoung, Duran Manswell & Klase Gonzales
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LYRICSVerse 1
Ah went down
in Piarco -
To pick up ah friend from New York
city
Could be twenty years or so -
Yuh boy eh bounce up with such ah
beauty
As soon as we eye make four -
She hug me up and we take ah selfie
Then she hash tag ‘airport pick’ -
Post it - and turn and tell me
Chorus
That’s how
we doing it -
Take ah selfie with you in it
That’s how we doing it -
Take ah selfie with you in it
Pose for me, pose for me
Come and take ah selfie -
Pose for me, pose for me
Come and take ah selfie - Oh gosh
When she
liming in the party -
(She want ah selfie)
When she link up with she family -
(She want ah selfie)
She only come for two days alone -
So she saving every moment on de
smartphone
Verse 2
Left the
airport finally -
Check in the hotel and start
unpacking
She say life is ah movie -
The role we choose is de role we
acting
Last time she come TnT -
The cell phone had no cameras back
then
Now she got ah Galaxy -
With all the accessories them
matching
Chorus
_________________
Verse 3
Insomnia
night -
She ask me if I could take her
So I said alright -
It would be my greatest pleasure
She jump out all white -
So everyone could notice her
Is selfie all night -
With the DJ, artist and the promoter
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, Gee Gee Ree, Pan Up There and Pokemon Blues. No surprise, he is up again here with a fifth track, a catchy ditty he has co-written - Selfie.
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