Auteur: Nat King Cole Compositeur: Don George Crestview Music Corp. EMI Tunes Limited — This song is written by the legendary Nat King Cole. It's a pure calypsonian style track, that describes with humor and ironie hard time life. It brings the calypsonian nostalgia, talking about women who like Calypso Rose emigrated to New-York for a better life and find a hard reality inside the Big Apple. Follow Calypso Rose: Facebook : Instagram : Twitter : 2018 Stonetree / Because Music ↓ LYRICS ↓ Wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh Sittin' by de ocean The wave she feel so sad Sittin' by de ocean The wave she feel so sad You ain't got de money To get you back to Trinidad Fine calypso woman She cook him shrimp and rice Fine calypso woman She cook him shrimp and rice Those yankee hot dogs Don't treat the stomach very nice In Trinidad, a dollar buy Papaya juice, banana pie Six coconut, a female goat And plenty fish to full de boat A bushel bread, a bottle of wine And all de town, she come to dine But there is bad, a dollar buy A cup of coffee, ham on rye Woo Me throat she sick from necktie Me feet she hurt from shoes His pocket full of empty He's got the Calypso blues These yankee girl give him a scare Is black de roots, and blonde de hair Her eyelash false, her face is paint And perhaps not de girl she ain't She jitterbug when she should waltz I even think her name was false Calypso girl is good a lot Is what you see, is what you got So sittin' at de ocean Your heart, she feel so sad You ain't got de money To get you back to Trinidad Sittin' by de ocean Your heart, she feel so sad Because you ain't got no money To take get you back to Trinidad Wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh Woo Wah-oh, wah-oh Wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh, wah-oh #CalypsoRose #CalypsoBlues #SoCalypso
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