Van Dyke Parks - Your Own Comes First lyrics

rate me

If I talk again it could drive me mad

I try to talk to the people of Trinidad

If I talk again it could set me mad

I'm tired if talkin to the people of Trinidad

All kinds of people come and doin well

And you the Trinidadians only catchin hell

How many times do you want to be told

Your own comes first all over the world

If you think I lie, I invite you please

Just take a trip through the West Indies

Make your first stop at Grenada

Tell them that you come to look for labor

If you miss and say you're from Trinidad

They lick you from Grenada down to Fyzabad

But you can't blame them on a whole

My friend, that's the policy of the world

So, Granadians for Granadians

Jamaicians for Jamaicians

Even Barbados take the same route

Trinidadians, buck up and follow suit

Well now you really lookin for blows

If you think you goin anchor in Barbados

The Bajuns goin tell you bloomin fast

Don't you know Bajuns first and outsiders last

Then you heist your anchor to Jamaica

Feelin that your chances might be better

But as I've led you to understand

Boy, we only have work here for Jamaicans

I'm not all selfish, I love to give

And I believe in the slogan live and let live

If the other islands aren't doin that

Well I don't see why we should be Miss Howard's cat

It's time to go into the reverse

Do like other nations put your people first

You must do as you are told

Or you would be the laughing stock of the world