Guerillas
1974 · Straker's GS 146 · Trinidad & Tobago
- Artist
- Mighty Cyper
- Title
- Guerillas
- Release
- Watergate / Guerillas
- Year
- 1974
- Label
- Straker's # GS 146
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Songwriter
- Dillary Scott
- Genre
- Calypso · Calypso
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music
Calypso song "Guerillas" is a little hard to decipher, but seems to be a novelty, policy satire, and definitely mentioned the Vietnam War, with the line "I say today fight in Vietnam, people see how they are crawling on their belly". The A-side is of course related to President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. Mighty Cypher, also known as Lord Cypher, and Crown Prince of Calypso is from Trinidad and Tobago.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: "Pay good attention, take it slow, yeah what happend.. / I went into the garden for a bunch of fig, rice cakes.. / Coming back home, police man stop, guerilla / I look around, I put up my hand / I say today fight in Vietnam / People see how they are crawling on their belly... / There and then I was up my hands / Well I dropped on my pants, and I started to run.../ The police leave me and they gone..."
Notes
B-side of "Watergate"; arranged and accompanied by Ed Watson Brass Circle, produced by G. Straker, recorded at Semp Studios (Trinidad). Straker's was a Brooklyn label.
About the artist
Mighty Cypher (Dillary Scott), also known as Lord Cypher and the Clown Prince of Calypso, calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
In collections
Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]