Lord Invader - Yankee Dollar

old time calypso

[@freeto9139]

Loved it ... True 'blast from the past'!!! 🍹

[@billyrovedas5687]

Thanx.... Excellent...

[@kamesjennedy]

Amazing, thank you!

[@helveticastandard5657]

This is great

[@timabad]

thank you

[@gamlahund]

@timabad you are most welcome

[@Offmedication]

Nice to hear the original version. Where can I find the lyrics?

[@jcrl96]

I had the pretty baby, Oh confess she love me, And she’s from respectable family, And she said, that she had the soldier Who is treating her much better, aha She don't want no native fella. So she told me plainly, She love Yankee Money, And she said Lord Invader, Not because you sung rum and Coca Cola, Don’t bother, If you know, you ain't got the Yankee Dollar. I started to chat the lady, I pleaded so impressively, I showed her a lot of English Money, But this is what she made me to understand She said she don't want no Trinidadian, You must be an American, or either Puerto Rican. So she told me plainly, She love Yankee Money, And she said Lord Invader, Not because you sung rum and Coca Cola, Don’t bother, If you know, you ain't got the Yankee Dollar. They have some girls in Port Of Spain Some of them ain't got no shame, Yes I know in lot but ah won't call name And if you see them around the corner, To approach them don't you bother, aha Don’t you know the blocking some Yankee soldier? So she told me plainly, She love Yankee Money, And she said Lord Invader, Not because you sung rum and Coca Cola, Don’t bother, If you know, you ain't got the Yankee Dollar. But now the war is over, Trinidad is getting Harder, Some of the young girls bawling for murder You can hear them how the gossiping, No more Yankee dollars the spending and tin But now the hustling import there use that shilling So she told me plainly, She love Yankee Money, And she said Lord Invader, Not because you sung rum and Coca Cola, Don’t bother, If you know, you ain't got the Yankee Dollar.

[@jaredmaynard4890]

rum and coca cola was the original, lord invader and lionel belasco (his musician) sued for copywrite infringement, the both plaintiffs won the case but whereas Lord invader received about $150000 in royalties, the other party kept the copywrite to the song. He then wrote this song as a follow up.... in the lyrics he said "not because yuh sing run and coca cola".....

[@Grayhairwisdom]

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[@dennis3065]

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