Yesterday October 4th was the birthday of the Mighty Shadow. When Steel Talks extends greetings and continued good fortune to you.
ZP_The Mighty Shadow_photograph by Abigail Hadeed
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Happy Belated Birthday to you Shadow. Hope that you live to see many more. You are my favourite Calyposnian.
Happy Birthday to the Mighty Shadow!!! As he sung himself, "Scratch Meh Back"...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHADOW!!!!!! Definitely one of my top favorite calypsonians.... Keep doin yuh ting!!!!
Birthday Greetings to Shadow, may you have continual blessings.
Columbus Lie
Bassman
The story about the steelpan bassman from hell. -- Audio version
Bass Man - Mighty Shadow (1974)
Written by Winston Bailey
[verse 1]
I was planning to forget Calypso
And go and plant peas in Tobago
But I am afraid
I can't make the grade
Cause every night I lie down in meh bed
I hearing a bass man in meh head
[chorus]
I don't know how this thing get inside me
But every morning, he driving me crazy
Like he taking meh head for a pan yard
Morning and evening, like this fella gone mad
(pim pom) And if I don't want to sing
(pim pom) When he start to do he ting
I don't want to, but I have to sing
(pim pom) And if I don't want to dance
(pim pom) He does have me in a trance
I don't want to, but I have to prance
to his...
(pom pom pidi pom, pom...)
[verse 2]
One night I said to the bassman
Give me your identification
He said "is me Farell"
Your bass man from hell
You tell me you singing Calypso
And I come up to pull some notes for you
[repeat chorus]
I went and I tell Mr Lee Yeung
I want a brain operation
A man in meh head
I want him to dead
He said it's my imagination
But I know I hearing the bass man
[repeat chorus]
Stranger - Clive Bradley - Masterpiece - Pantonic Steel Orchestra
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