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sung by David Rudder
composed by David Rudder
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LYRICS
Trinidad is a jamette yeah-a
Trinidad is a jamette, wo ou woh ho
Jam it jamette!
Verse 1
Marabunta
Jean, well she was a prophet
Was the first woman to wave an
honest flag
The naked streets, was she only
temple
Now she all over Trinidad
Chorus 1
So don’t you
be a stranger, taste the sweetest
danger
Welcome to the jamettery
The world is going this way, Trinis
going THAT way
Welcome to the jamettery.
Verse 2
Jamettery is
a force, a possession like no other
It’s a sleeping power, a creeping
dread
Stepping across the land like a
dancing La Diablesse
This jamette world could t’ief yuh
head. So..
Don’t you be
a stranger, taste the sweetest
danger
Welcome to the jamettery
Three-piece suited con man, “three
quarter”wearing gunman
Blazing a new world for we.
Bridge
Jamette
power, spreading like flood water,
all over the land yeah, yeah
(repeat)
Jamette power (x4)
Strength and powers!
Chorus
Don’t you be
a stranger, taste the sweetest
danger
Welcome to the jamettery
Feel the jamette power, live it for
the hour
Welcome to the jamettery
Verse 3
Marabunta
Jean, well she was a prophet
Was the first woman to wave an
honest flag
The naked streets, was she only
temple
Now she all over Trinidad.
Don’t you be
a stranger, feel the sweetest danger
Welcome to the jamettery
Take it to the streets man, sorrow
has a “sweet han’”
Welcome to the jamettery
A
disciplined confusion, a realitied
Illusion
Welcome to the jamettery
This place is such a hot mess,
powerful but careless
Mouth done cock, and backside free.
Jamette
power, jamette power
Yes we do it naturally. Oh ou oh ou
woh ! Feel it!
Jamette power, feel it.
Give
yourself a reason, join the sweetest
treason.
Welcome, welcome, welcome yeah.
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David Rudder
Dr. David Michael Rudder was born in Belmont, Trinidad on May 6, 1953. One of nine children, he spent much of his early childhood with his grandmother, a spiritual Baptist, growing up near a pan yard and a Shango yard, in a neighbourhood where boys dreamed of being entertainers. It was at school that he discovered how much art, painting and sculpture really interested him. Rudder began singing at the age of 11 with a group called The Solutions. In 1977, he joined the brass band Charlie’s Roots and began charting his musical career.
In the early days, Rudder acquired a reputation as a back-up singer in the calypso tent run by Lord Kitchener, while earning his living as an accountant with the Trinidad Bus Company. Rudder’s first big break came when Christopher “Tambu” Herbert, lead singer with Charlie’s Roots, fell ill after an exhausting tour of Guyana and suggested his friend Rudder as a temporary replacement. Rudder stayed on as a co-lead singer, and built a reputation for his scintillating performances. His exposure to Shango and the Pan Yards influenced his music, he was also influenced by Jazz and African artists such as Yossou N’Dour, Alpha Blondy. He is known as one of the few band singers who wrote all his own songs.
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