Van Dyke Parks - Tribute To Spree lyrics

rate me

Steel band man, yes you beatin pan

But my friend you won't understand

Has it ever dawned on you

Who invented pan

I ask you to join me

In offerin tribute to this man

Everybody wonderin

How the steelband start

When you get to know

Well, it's gonna break your heart

I tell you now

It's founded by one Winston Spree

And this is how

He started his first melody

Bless the day in 1939

The genius say he recall to mind

Saw an old empty oil drum

Beatin in the storm

Just before the sky darkened

You know it was the steel band was born

Everybody wonderin

How the steelband start

When you get to know

Well, it's gonna break your heart

I tell you now

It's founded by one Winston Spree

And this is how

He started his first melody

He went along beatin blow by blow

He thought it sound like a piano

This really inspired him to a great extent

So he continued poundin

Until he found this new instrument

Everybody wonderin

How the steelband start

When you get to know

Well, it's gonna break your heart

I tell you now

It's founded by one Winston Spree

And this is how

He started his first melody

Now the world waiting anxiously

We strike gold all because of Spree

But what are we doin now to conserve his name

We should reimburse him

And have it placed in the hall of fame

Everybody wonderin

How the steelband start

When you get to know

Well, it's gonna break your heart