V1,
Tell Me Again & Again
Please Help Me Understand,
The Evaluation
Of The Steel Pan
Those Stories Told
Of Days Of Old
Really Fascinate Me
So Ah To Ask "May" Granny
Who Sat Me Down & Explained Me
-CHORUS-
(pick-up) Son, It Was
IT Was Pan Better Pan-
Man Better Man -
Band Better Band
(Sub Chorus)
Lord Help You
If You Touch We Flag Woman
And When You See
We Coming Down Marine Square
With We Bomb Ringing In the Air--
Son.! You Had to Be There to Understand
Those Golden Years of Pan
----Music Interlude---
V2.
Tell Me Again & Again
About the Years of Stigma
Long Before Pan Get Culture
And What About the BadJohn Era?
----
She Explained to Me
De. Pan Geography
And the Confrontations
Between All
The Rival Steel Bands
And the ( Serious) Repercussions
---
Pan Am -North Stars
West Side Symphony
CrossFire & Tripoli,
Invaders - Starlift & Sun Valley
Those Were Some of the Bands
That Preserved Pan - For You & Me
----
And the Bards of the Land
Those Lords & Mighty Calypsions
For Demarch Gras will Have Ah New Tune
(Sub Chorus)
Any By Jouvert Morning
That's What We Were Beating
And When You See
We Heading For The Grand Stand
Man Woman & Child
Pushing Pan For the Band
Son-You Had to Be There To Understand
Those Golden Years of Pan
ENDING!
Pan Gone But Panman Stay
That is what they tell me
But they can't fool me
Because we know the History
ERIC used to say
"Come one day
You will see Made in Japan
Or even Taiwan
Stamp on a Steel Pan"
But don't matter how far you roam
The sound of a Pan
Will Always bring me home
So share the History -
Son Help
The World to Over-Stand
The Golden Years of Pan
- CHORUS
(c)Henry O. Miller
Dedicated to BigBoy - Harper of Tripoli
The Band From Saint James.
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