Three Calypsonians - Mighty Sparrow

People are always gossiping

About calypso singing

People always gossiping

About calypso singing

Yesterday I overheard

A big conversation down the road

Well ah laugh 'til ah nearly dead

When some calypso fans jump up and said:

That Lord Melody is only full of mouth

Looking like a Boo-Boo but we like to hear him shout

Lord Christo is very cool in life

But when the Sparrow singing, hold on to you wife

It is so near Carnival

And they want to put me in bacchanal

These people only setting strife

By telling you how to hold you wife

Singing calypso is my work

With everybody I make joke

With married women I don’t mingle

But you in trouble if you young, you free, and single

So Melody is only full of mouth

Looking like a Boo-Boo but we like to hear him shout

Lord Christo is very cool in life

But when the Sparrow singing, hold on to you wife

Christo have them people fool

By pretending to be cool

When he is on the pavement

Ordinarily he look so innocent

But if you want to know the score

Ask Marjorie and Lenore

I am sorry for poor Crissy

I don’t know how he going to pay the maintenance fee

Melody, you’re only full of mouth

Looking like a Boo-Boo but we like to hear him shout

Lord Christo you are very cool in life

But when Sparrow singing, hold on to you wife

Melody is the Boo-Boo man

The only one in this island

His calypsoes are very bright

But then he could kill you dead with fright

«Mama, look ah Boo-Boo dey!»

If you see him you sure to faint away

But I still for all we like to hear him croon

The creature from Black Lagoon

Oh Lawd!

Melody is only full of mouth

Looking like a Boo-Boo but we like to hear him shout

Lord Christo is very cool in life

When Sparrow singing, hold on to you wife