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‘I’ll Be There’

sung by “Crazy”
composed by Winsford Devine and Edwin Ayoung

produced by Edwin Ayoung

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 “I’ll Be There”
“Crazy”
Provided with the expressed permission of the composer(s)

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LYRICS

Verse 1

Last night I was in Utopia
There I met up “Professor”
We were hanging out together
In a steel band fiesta
Calypso music was playing
Everybody was happy
Masqueraders were portraying
In a carnival party
And he asked me if we missed him
When I said “Tremendously”
Because he was just a victim
And he told me don’t worry

Chorus

Twenty nineteen - we will jam
Twenty nineteen - is bedlam
Twenty nineteen - playing pan
Twenty nineteen - here I am

We will heat up the savannah
And dominate the program
In Skinner Park and Arima
In a sweet ‘Pan By Storm’ jam

( I’ll be there (in de Savannah)
I’ll be there (for Panorama) ) x4

Verse 2

And while two of us conversing
Up came mister Kim Loy Wong
Both of them began rehearsing
A new Panorama song
And when the pans start to echo
The tempo had me in awe
I never heard pan music so
An’ Peep, the next thing I saw
Bradley wining on Pat Bishop
Kitchie jamming on Audrey
With pan music blasting non-stop
Dis is what he said to me

Chorus
_________________

Verse 3

This is an ode to “Professor”
A true cultural icon
Poet, Panman, and arranger
Of this soil a true, true son
Even though he is dead and gone
The fondest of memories
Shall for a long time linger on
For his noble qualities
He is worthy of the honour
For the way he used to play
Really, truly a Professor
That is why the people say

Chorus
_________________

Outro

Ellie Mannette, I’ll always remember
Tuning pan for Invaders, and others
Ellie Mannette, I will always remember
Tuning pan for Invaders, and others

Ken Philmore, I will remember
Playing in a band, on his tenor pan
“Professor” - I will remember
Playing in a band, beatin’ sweet, sweet pan

Winston Bailey, I’ll always remember
Dingolaying - playing mas
Jumpin’ to steel and brass
Mighty Shadow, we’ll always remember
Dingolay - playing mas
To steel and brass

Winston Scarborough, I’ll always remember
Jumpin’ in a band, and waving he hand
“DeFosto”, I’ll always remember
Jumpin’ in a band, and waving his hand

Million Voice, I’ll always remember
Chatting when a steelband pass
He was a man of class
Million Voice, I always remember
Chanting in a band, and waving he hand

Kim Loy Wong, I will always remember
In Highlanders band, beatin’ a pan
Kim Loy Wong, I will always remember
In Highlanders band, playin’ a pan


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