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PA N  _ _ _

Has come a long way

But do you know::

How we got where we are today ???
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The Boys 

Didn’t read music
So how did they teach it???

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Well, listen up -  Listen up
Ah go tell you today

CHORUS
Watch "meh" hand boy
Ah, say watch meh hand!! (ping ping ping pong ) 
Ah doing it slow --- For you to understand Boy
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Watch meh hand boy!!
Ah, say watch meh hand!! ( pong -pong ping pong)
And you had to catch on fast                                                    (C2) If “yuh” head hard)
To stay in the band Boy!!                                                           (You couldn’t say in the band Boy
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Watch meh hand boy
Ah say watch meh hand (P  2 3 4)
And the Captain Beating out the Syncopation~~                  (kay tang "kay tang" )
And then we move so~~~                                                         (Sway left +++ Sway to the Right)
To run the solo (P- Pause)
Man to Man ( P)                                                                           (Brother Man)
That is how they used to teach pan.

V2:                                                                                                V3
PAN  _ _ _                                                                                   PAN   _ _ _

Muma used to say                                                                    People used to say
One Day One Day Congo Tae!!!                                             If yuh Boy in pan yard – they have gone astray
If your daughter step in a panyard                                         Police used to chase them (we)
The Family gone mad                                                              Police would even arrest them (we)
Look around Look around                                                       Look around Look around
Who in panyard today -> CHORUS                                         Police in panyard today  CHORUS - To Change Key

It was Carnival Monday

I wasn't Jumping up in de Band

I was playing Spectator

Hugging up "may" partner Worman

When this old girlfriend Spot me

And - Darling "before meh head could ah tun"

She "start" bathing in powder

And drag me in de band -

Singing (CHORUS)

C1

Doh tell me you can't remember

When all ah we used to run

Doh tell me you can't remember

Darling - Dem days was real - "real" fun

Doh tell me you can't remember

Liming - Down by Johnson corner --

Doh tell me you can't remember

"When all ah we "was" one" A.... A

V2-

Well is now ah  begging for mercy 

Causing ah dressing in "may" Dan Dan

Please somebody help me 

Playing ah do know the Gal from Adam

She - say look ah know yuh, Father

Mother, Brother -Yuh whole Family

Doh tell me yuh can't remember playing

Dolley House with me  A A.. CHORUS

V3

Suddenly... Everybody scatter

Still ah can't find any place to run

Now the Pan sounding sweeter

So ah decide to join in the fun

Everybody Happy -

Familiar face Everywhere "ah tun" Now

Me and de flay woman sharing

Ah, bottle ah Old Oak rum ..Singing. CHORUS

C2

Do Tell Me You Car Remember

Ah Could Just Like Yesterday

Do Tell Me You Car Remember

Playing "May Penny Whe - Whe"  A ... A

Doh Tell Yuh car remember...

Dem days I will always treasure 

Doh tell me yuh car remember

When All ah we was one.

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C3

Doh tell me yuh car remember

Stoning mango tree just for fun

Doh tell me yuh car remember

Scraping Mamma pot for Bun Bun,

Doh tell me yuh car remember 

Dem days ah will always treasure

Doh tell me yuh car remember 

When "all ah we was one" A A

(c) Henry O Miller 2000

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?

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She Explained to Me

De. Pan Geography

And the Confrontations 

Between All

The Rival Steel Bands 

And the ( Serious) Repercussions

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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  

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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. 

A podcast featuring conversations with Caribbean jazz and pan jazz musicians based in the islands and the diaspora. [LINK HERE]

EPISODE NOTES:

Pioneering steelpan jazz musician, Rudy "Two Left" Smith chats with Jazz in the Islands editor, Nigel A. Campbell, about his career. His beginnings in Trinidad, his sojourn into Europe to perform and ultimately record are discussed. Landmark albums like his Otinku with the Modern Sound Quintet are put into context as a steelpan jazz first. Now resident in Denmark, Smith's career spans more than 50 years playing and recording music on the steelpan, being among the few still alive who made recordings on the Cook Records label here in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. A bebop musician who uses the steelpan as his instrumental voice in the jazz conversation on the band stand, Smith continues making albums that still garner rave reviews from jazz critics and stand as benchmarks for a new generation to strive towards. A major influence on a number of new steelpan jazz musicians, Smith is modest in his recognition of the deserved accolades. Mon, 19 Feb 2018

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• Programme Date: 1 November 2018
• Programme Length: 00:24:38

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